Lucky in the game - and lucky in love. Everything is coming together for Petra Kvitova, after the form crisis at the beginning of the year things went really well again with the win in Eastbourne and now the final in Cincinnati.

Does the run in Cincy in particular have anything to do with what happened in Wimbledon? That's where the two-time winner of the All England Championships got engaged. The lucky one: Jiri Vanek, her coach and former ex-professional, in 2000 he was ranked 74th in the world. Vanek and Kvitova have been working together since 2016.

Kvitova will start next week at the US Open, her weakest major tournament so far: "Only" two quarter-finals (2015, 2017) are on the list of successes here. Will she be able to tear more this time with the momentum of the engagement?