Nadia Petrova
Nadezhda ( Nadja ) Viktorovna Petrova (Russian Надежда Викторовна Петрова, English transcription Nadezhda Petrova, . Born June 8, 1982 in Moscow, then the Soviet Union) is a Russian tennis player.
- 4.1 Single
- 4.2 double
Life
Petrova comes from a sports family. Her father, Victor Petrov, was hammer thrower, her mother Nadezhda Iljina won the bronze medal at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal in the 400 - meter race in the relay. Since both parents accepted a contract as coach of Egypt, Nadja spent most of her childhood there. At the age of eight, she began playing tennis and won the 1998 junior competition at the tournament of Roland Garros.
Nadia Petrova, who is domiciled in Miami, lives during the off-season in her hometown of Moscow.
Career
Petrova won four ITF singles titles and joined in September 1999, the professional circus on. In the world rankings before she moved into the top 100 in the same year. In 2002 she was made due to a foot injury that prevented their use almost the entire season, back. But in 2003, it went up again and on 19 April 2004, it reached position 6 of their first top- ten finish.
On October 30, 2005, she won her first WTA singles titles. In the finals of Linz, defeating the Swiss Patty Schnyder 4:6, 6:3 and 6:1. She had been there as early as 2003 in the final, as in 2004, Gold Coast. Both finals she lost to Japan's Ai Sugiyama. In 2005, she reached the final of the German Open in Berlin, where she was defeated after a hard fight Justine Henin- Hardenne.
In the absence of defending champion Amélie Mauresmo Petrova won the 2005 in her fifth start of the tournament in Linz. The following year she won within six weeks three WTA tournaments: Doha, Amelia Iceland and immediately afterwards in Charleston. On April 16, 2006, she moved up to 5th place in the WTA ranking King. On 14 May 2006, she won by a playoff victory over Henin- Hardenne ( 4:6, 6:4 and 7:5 ) for the first time the German Open, on 15 May 2006, she was ranked 3 in the world rankings - until now their best position.
After Petrova had failed for several weeks in 2006 due to various injuries, it secured in October the title at the WTA tournament in Stuttgart. In early January 2007, she won along with Dmitry Tursunov the Hopman Cup. At the Australian Open, she already retired on lap three out against the US-American and eventual winner Serena Williams 6:1, 5:7 and 3:6.
In the Fed Cup semi-final of 14-15. July 2007 contributed significantly to the Petrova 3-2 victory of the Russian team. She denied against the U.S. team twin: Venus Williams against they lost out against Miles Tu won without problems. In doubles she defeated at the side of Jelena Wesnina Williams and the U.S. double specialist Lisa Raymond and secured her team reach the finals.
In doubles, Nadia Petrova is successful for a long time. She has won 24 WTA titles, including seven in 2004 alone, along with Meghann Shaughnessy. With her it was 2004 double World Champion. Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament was initially reaching the semifinals at the French Open in 2003. 2012 she was able to move in the same place with Maria Kirilenko in the final, in which the two, however, the Italian duo Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci documents.
In individual himself Petrova could re-establish in 2012 in the top 20. At the U.S. Open she missed in her match against Maria Sharapova ( 1:6, 6:4, 4:6 ) is just the quarter-finals, which they had reached in 2004 and 2005. In doubles, she succeeded there with Kirilenko the quarter-finals ( narrow three-set defeat by the Spaniards Llagostera Vives and Martinez Sanchez ). On September 29, it secured the Premier 5 tournament in Tokyo, where she defeated world number three Agnieszka Radwańska in three sets in the final, her 12th career singles title. In the WTA tournament in Sofia they finally confirmed the return of its former strength, as they won the final against Caroline Wozniacki 6-2 6-1 in November. The week before, she had already won together with Kirilenko the double title at the WTA Tour Championships. The two defeated in the semifinals the seeded 1 Duo Vinci / Errani before they prevailed in the final against the Czech pairing of two set Hradecka / Hlawaczkowa in two sets.
In March 2013 Petrova could adjust their record in a double from the year 2005. After she had stood with Katarina Srebotnik four times in a row in the final of a WTA tournament and won their 23 doubles title in Miami, she was again number 3 in the double world rankings. When grass tournament in Eastbourne doubles title number followed 24