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Nadia Petrova (born June 8, 1982 in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian professional tennis player. Overall, she has won 27 WTA Titles, nine in singles and eighteen in doubles. In singles, Petrova has reached a career high ranking of World No. 3 in May 2006 and has reached the semi-finals of the French Open in 2003 and 2005 and in doubles, won the year-ending Sony Ericsson Championships in 2004 with Meghann Shaughnessy. As of October 5, 2009, Petrova is ranked World No 17 in singles and No 14 in doubles.
[edit] Biography[edit] Early lifePetrova was born in Moscow. Her parents were both very athletic - her father Viktor was a leading hammer thrower, while her mother Nadezhda Ilyina won a bronze medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympics in the 400 meter relay. Both her parents are still athletics coaches. As a child, Nadia did a lot of travelling around the world with her parents. She eventually settled in Egypt, where she trained with Mohammed Seif and her parents. [edit] Career[edit] Early careerAs a junior, Petrova won the 1998 French Open, beating Jelena Dokić in the final. The same year she finished runner-up at the Orange Bowl to Elena Dementieva and she also finished runner-up at the junior 1999 US Open to Lina Krasnoroutskaya. In May 1998, she played her first WTA tournament at the J&S Cup as a wildcard entrant. She also received a wildcard for her home event in Moscow, the Kremlin Cup, where she picked up her first top twenty win over Iva Majoli. By the end of 1999, Petrova had reached the top 100. In 2000, she reached the third round of the Australian Open and the quarterfinals of the Ericsson Open, beating Julie Halard-Decugis for her first top ten win before losing to Lindsay Davenport. She finished the season at No. 50. She reached the fourth round of both French Open and the US Open in 2001 and her ranking hit a high of No. 38 during the season. However, her 2002 season was marred by injuries causing her ranking to drop out of the top 100. [edit] 2003-2006: Top FormRanked No. 76 in the world, she reached the semifinals of the French Open, beating former No. 1's Monica Seles and Jennifer Capriati to reach the semifinals. Later in the year, she reached her first Sony Ericsson WTA Tour final in Linz, losing to Ai Sugiyama 7–5, 6–4. By the end of the 2003 season, she had reached No. 12.  Petrova reached her second WTA final at Gold Coast, losing once again to Ai Sugiyama 1–6, 6–1, 6–4. She was upset in the first round of the Australian Open to Anikó Kapros, losing 6–3, 6–3. In March 2004, she hit the top ten at No. 9 after reaching the semifinals of the NASDAQ-100 Open. She reached the semifinals at the Bausch & Lomb Championships, beating second-seeded Serena Williams before losing to Lindsay Davenport. After this, her ranking elevated to a career high of No. 7. However, she failed to defend her semifinal points from the 2003 French Open, losing to Marlene Weingärtner in the third round 6–3, 6–2. At the US Open, she pulled off the biggest win of her career by defeating Justine Henin 6–3, 6–2 in the fourth round. It was Petrova's first victory over a world No. 1. She lost in the quarterfinals to eventual champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 7–6, 6–3. She finished the season at No. 12. Petrova reached the fourth round of the Australian Open, losing to the eventual champion Serena Williams, 6–1, 3–6, 6–3. She reached her third career final at the Qatar Total German Open in May, beating Mary Pierce, Amélie Mauresmo and Jelena Janković, before losing to Justine Henin. Her ranking rose to No. 9, where she stayed for the next two years before dropping out in May 2007. At the French Open, she lost in the semifinals to Henin 6–2, 6–3, but her ranking rose one place to No. 8. A few weeks later at Wimbledon, she reached the quarterfinals before losing to Maria Sharapova 7–6, 6–3. After Wimbledon, she reached five straight quarterfinals at Los Angeles, Toronto, the US Open, Luxembourg, and Filderstadt. Petrova finally won her first title at the Generali Ladies Linz held in Linz, Austria. She beat Patty Schnyder in the final. Her successful season meant she qualified for the Sony Ericsson Championships in Los Angeles. She ended 2005 ranked World No. 9, her first top ten Finnish. At the Australian Open, Petrova was seeded 6th and defeated Sophie Ferguson, Martina Müller, Maria Elena Camerin and Elena Vesnina on her way to her first quarterfinal at the Australian Open. She lost to fourth-seeded Maria Sharapova 7-6(4), 6-4 in the quarterfinals. At the Qatar Total Open held in Doha, Petrova picked up her first title of the year and second overall by beating second-ranked and top-seeded Amélie Mauresmo 6-3, 7-5 in the final. The victory took her ranking to No. 7. She followed it with a quarterfinal showing at the NASDAQ-100 Open, losing to Mauresmo 6–3, 6–1. Petrova then began her run that would take her to three titles, winning fifteen straight matches. At the Bausch & Lomb Championships, she defeated Francesca Schiavone in the final to pick up her third title in the past six months. One week later, she won her second straight title and fourth overall at the Family Circle Cup with a victory over Patty Schnyder.[1] She next entered the Qatar Telecom German Open in Berlin, defeating Justine Henin.[2] With this win, she ascended to her career high of No. 3. However, Petrova was defeated in the first round of the French Open by Akiko Morigami 6–2, 6–2. This may have been caused by an ankle injury Petrova suffered during training before the tournament. She then withdrew from Wimbledon and did not win a match in the U.S. Open Series, going 0–3. At the US Open, Petrova was upset in the third round by Tatiana Golovin. At the Stuttgart, Petrova won her first tournament title since the Tier I Qatar Telecom German Open in May 2006. She then continued her return to form by reaching the final of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow, losing to Russian Anna Chakvetadze. At the Sony Ericsson Championships in Madrid in November 2006. Her lone victory was over top-ranked Amélie Mauresmo 6–2, 6–2. She finished the year at No. 6. [edit] 2007-2009: Injuries and Inconsistent PlayAt the Australian Open, she reached the third round before falling to Serena Williams, the eventual champion, after holding a 5–3 second set lead.  At the Open Gaz de France in Paris, Petrova picked up her seventh tour title and first of the season by beating Lucie Šafářová. Petrova reached the quarterfinals of the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, losing to Justine Henin. Petrova then reached the final in Amelia Island, losing to Tatiana Golovin. She was the eleventh-seeded player at the French Open but lost to Květa Peschke 7–5, 5–7, 6–0. After the loss, she claimed that the low back pain had been bothering her. It was her second consecutive first round loss at the French Open because of injury. At Wimbledon, Petrova lost to Ana Ivanović 6–1, 2–6, 6–4 in the fourth round. In the 2007 Fed Cup tie against the USA on July 14/15, Petrova played a pivotal role in securing the victory for her team. While losing on the first day against Venus Williams, she won her singles match against Meilen Tu on the second day and then teamed with Elena Vesnina to beat Williams and Lisa Raymond in the decisive doubles rubber.[3]  At the JPMorgan Chase Open, Petrova reached her third final of the year, losing to Ana Ivanović in straight sets. At the US Open, Petrova was seeded seventh but lost to Ágnes Szávay 6–4, 6–4. The loss meant that she had not gone past the fourth round of any Grand Slam tournament all year, the first time since 2002. She finished 2007 ranked No. 14, her lowest year-end ranking in five years. Petrova started her 2008 season on a two-match losing streak going into the Australian Open, losing in the first round in Gold Coast as the number 2 seed to Tathiana Garbin 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 and in Sydney 7-5, 6-3 to Sybille Bammer. She still managed to reach the fourth round of the Australian Open though as the 14th seed with wins over Nicole Pratt, Anne Kremer and Ekaterina Makarova all in straight sets.. There she played Agnieszka Radwańska of Poland, who beat her 1–6, 7–5, 6–0. Petrova held a 6–1, 3–0 lead and looked on form for an easy victory. In the third set, she won just four points. At the Open Gaz de France in Paris, Petrova was the defending champion and seeded 5th but lost in the first round to Kateryna Bondarenko 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-4. Petrova retired in her first-round match at the 2008 Qatar Total Open against Anabel Medina Garrigues due to an upset stomach while trailing 2-6, 2-1. At Dubai, she lost 6-4, 6-4 to Katarina Srebotnik. Petrova's injuries continued to strike at her when she was forced to retire in the second round of Miami with a right quad strain while trailing 2-1 in the first set against Zheng Jie. At the 2008 German Open in Berlin, Petrova returned to action as the 16th seed and defeated Katarina Srebotnik 7-6(5), 3-6, 7-6(2) in the first round before losing in the second round to Maria Kirilenko 6-3, 6-3. Petrova was once again defeated by Kirilenko in the first round of Rome, but this time in three sets, 3-6, 7-5, 6-4. At her final warm-up tournament in Istanbul, Nadia was seeded third and got past Lilia Osterloh 6-1, 6-2 in the first round and Marta Domachowska 6-2, 6-2 in the second round. She lost to Akgul Amanmuradova 7-6(0), 1-6, 6-4 in the quarter-finals. These losses put Petrova in poor stead going into the French Open. As the twenty-fifth seed, she beat Aravane Rezaï and Alisa Kleybanova in straight sets before being thrashed by Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-2, 6-1. Petrova's grass season began at Eastbourne, where she reached her first final of the year showing good form. She was beaten in a close match by Pole Agnieszka Radwańska 6-4, 6-7(11), 6-4. At Wimbledon, Petrova was the number 21 seed and was on the right track after wins over Olga Govortsova 6-4, 6-4 and Mara Santangelo 6-4, 7-5. Petrova then pulled off an excellent win over the in-form teenager and 16th seed Victoria Azarenka 7-6(11), 7-6(4) in the third round. In the fourth round she faced unseeded Alla Kudrayatseva who just came off a win over 3rd seed Maria Sharapova; Petrova won 6-1, 6-4 to reach her second quarterfinal at Wimbledon. This was also the first time that Petrova had reached a Grand Slam quarterfinal since the 2006 Australian Open. She lost a cracker two and a half hour marathon match against the fifth seed Elena Dementieva 6-1, 6-7(6), 6-3. Petrova rallied from 6-1, 5-2 down and saved match points throughout the second set but eventually lost the match in the third set. Her ranking improved to World No. 17 after the tournament. Bouncing back from a first-round defeat at Stanford to Dominika Cibulková, Petrova reached the quarterfinals at Los Angeles, defeating 5th seed Vera Zvonareva 6-4, 7-5 en route before losing to Jelena Jankovic 7-5, 6-4. At Montreal, she again suffered a surprise defeat to Cibulková in the third round, this time losing 7-6(2), 6-2. Nadia then played in Cincinnati, as she did not gain entry into the Olympics because she was not in the top four ranked Russian players at the time. After easy wins over Galina Voskoboeva, Julie Ditty and Lilia Osterloh, Petrova once again found herself up against Maria Kirilenko for a place in the final. This time though, Petrova was victorious, coming back from a set down to win 1-6, 6-2, 6-1. Petrova then thrashed Nathalie Dechy 6-2, 6-1 in the final to win her first title of the year and the eighth of her career.  Petrova was in good form heading into the final Grand Slam Tournament of the year at the US Open. Petrova was seeded 19th and beat Olivia Sanchez 6-2, 6-4 in the first round and Hsieh Su-wei 6-4, 6-2 in round two. Petrova was ousted 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 by the 16th seed Flavia Pennetta in the third round. Petrova bounced back to good form at the 2008 Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic. Seeded 4th, Nadia defeated fifth seed Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 6-3 in the quarter-finals but she lost in the semi-finals to second seed and eventual champion Patty Schnyder 7-5, 6-1. At the 2008 Toray Pan Pacific Open, Petrova was unseeded but beat two top-ten players, Ana Ivanovic, the second seed 6-1, 1-6, 6-2 in the second round and Agnieszka Radwanska 6-3, 6-0 to reach the semifinals, where she lost 6-1, 6-0 to Dinara Safina, the eventual champion. At Stuttgart, she reached her third final of the season, after an impressive run, beating Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová, Patty Schnyder, Li Na and Victoria Azarenka in straight sets but failed to win the title, this time losing to Jelena Jankovic, the World No. 2 6-4, 6-3. Despite not winning the title, Petrova's ranking moved back into the top 15 to World No. 14 as a result of reaching the final. Petrova was a quarter-finalist at her home event, the 2008 Kremlin Cup in Moscow, beating teenager Caroline Wozniacki before losing to compatriot and third seed Elena Dementieva 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(6). She was also a quarter-finalist at the Linz, losing 6-3, 6-2 to Radwanska. At her final tournament of the season in Quebec City, she won her second title of the year beating lucky loser Angela Haynes 6-3, 6-1 in the semifinals and Bethanie Mattek-Sands 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 in the final. This title also secured her status as the second alternate for the WTA Tour Championships should a player withdraw. This scenario did indeed happen, and Petrova came in replacing Serena Williams. She lost her only match to Dementieva 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Petrova finished the 2008 season ranked World No. 11. Petrova started 2009 playing at the 2009 Medibank International Sydney where she was seeded seventh. She lost in the first round to Alize Cornet 6-2, 6-4. Petrova was seeded tenth at the Australian Open in Melbourne. She lost to seventh-seeded Vera Zvonareva in the fourth round 7–5, 6–4. However, this caused her ranking to move back into the top ten for the first time since early 2007 to World No. 10. She later reached World No. 9. Petrova did not play in the Indian Wells, a Premier Mandatory event due to injury. In Miami Nadia entered as the no. 9 seed, but lost to world no. 54 Ekaterina Makarova in the third round, 7-5, 6-1. Petrova next headed to Ponte Vedra Beach as the top seed where she defeated Olga Govortsova, Madison Keys (who had just won her first ever main draw match) and Alona Bondarenko. She fell in the semi final to eventual finalist Aleksandra Wozniak, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. Petrova fell in the second round at Charleston to Melinda Czink in three sets 3-6, 6-4, 7-5. At the 2009 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgard, Petrova was seeded sixth but lost in the second round to Flavia Pennetta 6-2, 6-2. She next went to the Rome Masters as the number eight seed where she had a first round bye before defeating giant killer Carla Suarez Navarro. In the third round Petrova was ousted by Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez 6-4, 6-7 (5) 6-4.  Petrova was seeded eleventh at the 2009 French Open in Paris where she reached the semi-finals in 2003 and 2005. She defeated Lauren Embree in the first round 6-1, 6-2. She lost in the second round to world no. 102 Maria Sharapova by 6-2, 1-6, 8-6. At the 2009 AEGON International, Petrova was seeded seventh and defeated Ana Ivanovic in the first round in three sets 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 where she came back from a double break down in the final set to win. However, she was defeated in the second round by fellow Russian Vera Dushevina 7-5, 0-1 where she was forced to retire due to a lower back injury after taking the first set. Petrova's next tournament was Wimbledon, the third grand slam of the year where she was the tenth seed. She beat Anastasiya Yakimova in the first round 6-1. 6-1. Petrova won her second round match against Shahar Peer 6-3, 6-2. She then came from a set down to beat Gisela Dulko 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. Petrova lost to #8 Victoria Azarenka, in three sets, in the fourth round. Petrova began her 2009 US Open Series campaign at Stanford where she was seeded 5th. After defeating her doubles partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands in three sets in the first round, Petrova lost again to Sharapova 6-1, 6-2 in just over an hour. In Los Angeles, she was also seeded 5th but lost to 10th seed Flavia Pennetta 6-3, 6-3 in the third round. Petrova then headed to Cincinnati where she was the defending champion and the tenth seed. She was unable to defend her title, losing in the first round to Alona Bondarenko 6-2, 6-3. This caused her ranking to slip out of the top ten to World No.12. Petrova next played in Toronto as the tenth seed where her poor form continued as she fell again to Maria Sharapova in the first round. Continuing her campaign on the 2009 US Open Series, she then received a wildcard as the 4th seed at the New Haven but again lost to compatriot Anna Chakvetadze in the first round. Her next tournament was the final Grandslam of the year, the 2009 US Open. Petrova was the thirteenth seed and defeated Katarina Srebotnik and Julie Coin in the first and second round in straight sets. Petrova then got past World No. 22 Zheng Jie, 6-4, 6-1. Petrova was defeated in the fourth round by unseeded American Melanie Oudin 1-6, 7-6(3), 6-3. However, her ranking improved one spot higher to World No. 12. Petrova then headed to Quebec to defend her title at the 2009 Bell Challenge. Petrova was the top seed and advanced to the quarterfinals with wins over Carly Gullickson and Madison Brengle in straight sets. Here, Petrova faced 5th seed Melinda Czink and was a set down when she was forced to retire due to a viral illness. Czink would go on to win the title. However, Nadia quickly returned to action in Tokyo as the number 13 seed but continued a dismal season, losing in the second round to Magdaléna Rybáriková 6-2, 6-2. She slipped to World No. 17 as a result of this bad form. Nadia then participated at China Open, a Premier Mandatory tournament, where she was the thirteenth seed. She beat her compatriot Alla Kudryavtseva 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 in the first round and World No. 24 Daniela Hantuchova 6-1, 2-6, 7-5 in the second round. She played one of her best matches in 2009 by beating Serena Williams in a thriller three sets match, by 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(5), in the third round despite the fact that Williams was just about to snitch back the World No. 1 ranking from Dinara Safina the following week due to the Russian's second round loss. Petrova then survived another three setter against Peng Shuai (who earlier beat Jelena Jankovic and Maria Sharapova) in the quarterfinals. This was only Petrova's second semi-final of the year but she lost to the reigning French Open Champion, Svetlana Kuznetsova, by 6-1, 6-3. Petrova then competed at Kremlin Cup as the fifth seed. She defeated Yana Buchina 6-2, 6-0 in the first round but fell to Alona Bondarenko in the second round. [edit] DoublesPetrova has also had success in doubles, reaching a career high of No. 3 in the doubles rankings. She has eighteen doubles titles, eight of them with Meghann Shaughnessy including the prestigious year-ending WTA Tour Championships in 2004, where they beat Cara Black and Rennae Stubbs in the final. She also has victories at the Tier I events in Moscow, Key Biscayne, Berlin, Rome, and Montreal, with all but the Montreal title being with Meghann Shaughnessy and the aforementioned other one being with Martina Navrátilová. In 2002 and 2003, she also reached the finals of three Tier I events with Jelena Dokić. [edit] WTA Tour titles (23)[edit] Singles (9)
[edit] Doubles (18)
[edit] Runner-ups (20)[edit] Singles (10)
[edit] Doubles (10)[edit] Performance timelines[edit] SinglesTo help interpret the performance table, the legend below explains what each abbreviation and color coded box represents in the performance timeline.
To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the conclusion of the 2009 season.
[edit] DoublesThis timeline is valid as of October 15, 2008.
[edit] References[edit] External links
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