Nadezhda Viktorovna Petrova

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Nadia Petrova Tennis player
Nadia Petrova
Nadja Petrowa at the 2013 French Open
Nation: RussiaRussia Russia
Birthday: June 8, 1982
Size: 178 cm
1st professional season: 1999
Resignation: 2017
Playing hand: Right, two-handed backhand
Prize money: $ 12,466,924
singles
Career record: 533: 303
Career title: 13 WTA , 4 ITF
Highest ranking: 3 (May 15, 2006)
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record: 384: 175
Career title: 24 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking: 3 (March 21, 2005)
Grand Slam record
Mixed
Grand Slam record
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Nadeschda (Nadja) Wiktorowna Petrowa ( Russian: Надежда Викторовна Петрова , English transcription Nadezhda Petrova ; born June 8, 1982 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) is a former Russian tennis player .

Petrowa comes from a family of athletes. Her father, Viktor Petrow, was a hammer thrower, her mother Nadezhda Ilyina won the bronze medal at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal in the 400 m run with the relay. Since both parents accepted a contract as a coach in Egypt, Nadja spent most of her childhood there. She started playing tennis at the age of eight, and in 1998 she won the junior women’s competition at the Roland Garros tournament .

Career

Petrowa won four ITF singles titles and joined the professional circus in September 1999. In the world rankings she made it into the top 100 in the same year . In 2002, she fell back with a foot injury that prevented her from playing for most of the season. But in 2003 things went up again and on April 19, 2004 she reached her first top ten position with position 6.

On October 30, 2005, she won her first WTA singles title. In the final in Linz she defeated (in the absence of defending champion Amélie Mauresmo ) Patty Schnyder 4: 6, 6: 3 and 6: 1. She had already been there in 2003 in the finals, also in 2004 in Gold Coast ; she lost both finals to Ai Sugiyama . In 2005 she reached the final of the German Open in Berlin, in which she had to admit defeat to Justine Henin-Hardenne after a hard fight .

The following year she won three WTA tournaments within six weeks: in Doha , in Amelia Island and immediately afterwards in Charleston . On April 16, 2006, she moved up to 5th place in the ranking. On May 14, 2006 she won the German Open for the first time by beating Henin-Hardenne (4: 6, 6: 4 and 7: 5) for the first time , on May 15, 2006 she was third in the world rankings - the best position in her Career.

After Petrowa was out for several weeks in 2006 due to various injuries, she secured the title at the WTA tournament in Stuttgart in October . At the beginning of January 2007 she won the Hopman Cup together with Dmitri Tursunow . At the Australian Open , she was eliminated in round three against the eventual winner Serena Williams 6: 1, 5: 7 and 3: 6.

In the Fed Cup semi-finals on 14./15. July 2007 Petrowa contributed decisively to the 3-2 victory of the Russian team . She played two singles against the USA team : against Venus Williams she narrowly lost, against Meilen Tu she won without any problems. In doubles, she defeated Jelena Wesnina Williams and doubles specialist Lisa Raymond and secured her team a place in the final.

Nadja Petrowa was successful in doubles early on. She won 24 WTA titles, including seven in 2004 alone with Meghann Shaughnessy . With her she also became double world champion in 2004. Her best performance in a Grand Slam tournament was initially reaching the semi-finals at the French Open in 2003. In 2012 she was able to move into the final in the same place with Marija Kirilenko , in which the two were defeated by Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci .

In 2012, Petrowa was able to establish himself again in the top 20. At the US Open, she narrowly missed the quarter-finals in her match against Maria Sharapova (1: 6, 6: 4, 4: 6), which she had reached in 2004 and 2005. In doubles, she managed to get into the quarterfinals with Kirilenko (narrow three sets defeat against Llagostera Vives and Martinez Sanchez ). On September 29, she secured herself at the Premier 5 tournament in Tokyo , where she defeated world number three Agnieszka Radwańska in three sets in the final, her 12th career title in singles.
At the WTA tournament in Sofia, she finally confirmed her return to her former strength when she won the final against Caroline Wozniacki 6-2 and 6-1 in November. The week before, she and Kirilenko had won the double title at the WTA Tour Championships . The two defeated the number 1 pairing Vinci / Errani in the semi-finals before they prevailed in two sets in the final against Hradecka / Hlawaczkowa (2 seeded).

In March 2013, Petrowa was able to set her record in doubles from 2005. After she was in the final of a WTA tournament four times in a row with Katarina Srebotnik and had won her 23rd double title in Miami , she was again number 3 in the double world rankings. At the lawn tournament in Eastbourne , she secured double title number 24. After her early departure in Charleston in April 2014, she has not played a match on the tour. On January 2, 2017, she announced the end of her career.

Tournament victories

singles

No. date competition category Topping Final opponent Result
1. October 30, 2005 AustriaAustria Linz WTA Tier II Hard court (hall) SwitzerlandSwitzerland Patty Schnyder 4: 6, 6: 3, 6: 1
2. March 4, 2006 QatarQatar Doha WTA Tier II Hard court FranceFrance Amélie Mauresmo 6: 3, 7: 5
3. April 9, 2006 United StatesUnited States Amelia Island WTA Tier II sand ItalyItaly Francesca Schiavone 6: 4, 6: 4
4th April 16, 2006 United StatesUnited States Charleston WTA Tier I sand SwitzerlandSwitzerland Patty Schnyder 6: 3, 4: 6, 6: 1
5. May 14, 2006 GermanyGermany Berlin WTA Tier I sand BelgiumBelgium Justine Henin-Hardenne 4: 6, 6: 4, 7: 5
6th October 8, 2006 GermanyGermany Stuttgart WTA Tier II Hard court (hall) FranceFrance Tatiana Golovin 6: 3, 7: 6
7th February 11, 2007 FranceFrance Paris WTA Tier II Carpet (hall) Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lucie Šafářová 4: 6, 6: 1, 6: 4
8th. August 17, 2008 United StatesUnited States Cincinnati WTA Tier III Hard court FranceFrance Nathalie Dechy 6: 2, 6: 1
9. October 2, 2008 CanadaCanada Quebec WTA Tier III Hard court (hall) United StatesUnited States Bethanie Mattek 4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 1
10. July 31, 2011 United StatesUnited States College park WTA International Hard court IsraelIsrael Shahar Peer 7: 5, 6: 2
11. June 23, 2012 NetherlandsNetherlands 's-Hertogenbosch WTA International race PolandPoland Urszula Radwańska 6: 4, 6: 3
12. 29th September 2012 JapanJapan Tokyo WTA Premier 5 Hard court PolandPoland Agnieszka Radwańska 6: 0, 1: 6, 6: 3
13. 5th November 2012 BulgariaBulgaria Sofia WTA Tournament of Champions Hard court (hall) DenmarkDenmark Caroline Wozniacki 6: 2, 6: 1

Double

No. date competition category Topping Partner Final opponents Result
1. June 23, 2001 NetherlandsNetherlands 's-Hertogenbosch WTA Tier III race RomaniaRomania Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie BelgiumBelgium Kim Clijsters Miriam Oremans
NetherlandsNetherlands 
7: 6 5 , 6: 7 5 , 6: 4
2. October 28, 2001 AustriaAustria Linz WTA Tier II Hard court (hall) Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia Jelena Dokic BelgiumBelgium Els Callens Chanda Ruby
United StatesUnited States 
6: 1, 6: 4
3. October 27, 2002 AustriaAustria Linz WTA Tier II Hard court (hall) Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia Jelena Dokic JapanJapan Rika Fujiwara Ai Sugiyama
JapanJapan 
6: 3, 6: 2
4th October 5, 2003 RussiaRussia Moscow WTA Tier II Carpet (hall) United StatesUnited States Meghann Shaughnessy RussiaRussia Anastassija Myskina Vera Swonaryova
RussiaRussia 
6: 3, 6: 4
5. April 4, 2004 United StatesUnited States Miami WTA Tier I Hard court United StatesUnited States Meghann Shaughnessy RussiaRussia Svetlana Kuznetsova Jelena Lichowzewa
RussiaRussia 
6: 2, 6: 3
6th April 11, 2004 United StatesUnited States Amelia Island WTA Tier II sand United StatesUnited States Meghann Shaughnessy SwitzerlandSwitzerland Myriam Casanova Alicia Molik
AustraliaAustralia 
3: 6, 6: 2, 7: 5
7th May 9, 2004 GermanyGermany Berlin WTA Tier I sand United StatesUnited States Meghann Shaughnessy SlovakiaSlovakia Janette Husárová Conchita Martínez
SpainSpain 
6: 2, 2: 6, 6: 1
8th. May 16, 2004 ItalyItaly Rome WTA Tier I sand United StatesUnited States Meghann Shaughnessy SpainSpain Virginia Ruano Pascual Paola Suarez
ArgentinaArgentina 
2: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3
9. July 25, 2004 United StatesUnited States los Angeles WTA Tier II Hard court United StatesUnited States Meghann Shaughnessy SpainSpain Conchita Martínez Virginia Ruano Pascual
SpainSpain 
6: 7 2 , 6: 4, 6: 3
10. August 28, 2004 United StatesUnited States New Haven WTA Tier II Hard court United StatesUnited States Meghann Shaughnessy United StatesUnited States Martina Navrátilová Lisa Raymond
United StatesUnited States 
6: 1, 1: 6, 7: 6 4
11. November 15, 2004 United StatesUnited States los Angeles WTA Tour Championships Hard court (hall) United StatesUnited States Meghann Shaughnessy ZimbabweZimbabwe Cara Black Rennae Stubbs
AustraliaAustralia 
7: 5, 6: 2
12. August 20, 2006 CanadaCanada Montreal WTA Tier I Hard court United StatesUnited States Martina Navrátilová ZimbabweZimbabwe Cara Black Anna-Lena Grönefeld
GermanyGermany 
6: 1, 6: 2
13. August 17, 2008 United StatesUnited States Cincinnati WTA Tier III Hard court RussiaRussia Maria Kirilenko Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei Jaroslawa Schwedowa
KazakhstanKazakhstan 
6: 3, 4: 6, [10: 8]
14th September 21, 2008 JapanJapan Tokyo WTA Tier I Hard court United StatesUnited States Vania King United StatesUnited States Lisa Raymond Samantha Stosur
AustraliaAustralia 
6: 1, 6: 4
15th October 12, 2008 RussiaRussia Moscow WTA Tier I Hard court (hall) SloveniaSlovenia Katarina Srebotnik ZimbabweZimbabwe Cara Black Liezel Huber
United StatesUnited States 
6: 4, 6: 4
16. April 19, 2009 United StatesUnited States Charleston WTA Premier sand United StatesUnited States Bethanie Mattek-Sands LatviaLatvia Līga Dekmeijere Patty Schnyder
SwitzerlandSwitzerland 
6: 7 5 , 6: 2, [11: 9]
17th May 3, 2009 GermanyGermany Stuttgart WTA Premier Sand (hall) United StatesUnited States Bethanie Mattek-Sands ArgentinaArgentina Gisela Dulko Flavia Pennetta
ItalyItaly 
5: 7, 6: 3, [10: 7]
18th October 25, 2009 RussiaRussia Moscow WTA Premier Hard court (hall) RussiaRussia Maria Kirilenko RussiaRussia Marija Kondratjewa Klára Zakopalová
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
6: 2, 6: 2
19th April 18, 2010 United StatesUnited States Charleston WTA Premier sand United StatesUnited States Liezel Huber United StatesUnited States Vania King Michaëlla Krajicek
NetherlandsNetherlands 
6: 3, 6: 4
20th April 1, 2012 United StatesUnited States Miami WTA Premier Mandatory Hard court RussiaRussia Maria Kirilenko ItalyItaly Sara Errani Roberta Vinci
ItalyItaly 
7: 6 0 , 4: 6, [10: 4]
21st October 25, 2012 United StatesUnited States Istanbul WTA Tour Championships Hard court (hall) RussiaRussia Maria Kirilenko Czech RepublicCzech Republic Andrea Hlaváčková Lucie Hradecká
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
6: 1, 6: 4
22nd January 11, 2013 AustraliaAustralia Sydney WTA Premier Hard court SloveniaSlovenia Katarina Srebotnik ItalyItaly Sara Errani Roberta Vinci
ItalyItaly 
6: 3, 6: 4
23. March 31, 2013 United StatesUnited States Miami WTA Premier Mandatory Hard court SloveniaSlovenia Katarina Srebotnik United StatesUnited States Lisa Raymond Laura Robson
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
6: 1, 7: 6 2
24. June 22, 2013 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Eastbourne WTA Premier race SloveniaSlovenia Katarina Srebotnik RomaniaRomania Monica Niculescu Klára Zakopalová
Czech RepublicCzech Republic 
6: 3, 6: 3

Performing in Grand Slam tournaments and the WTA Tour Championships

singles

competition 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Career
Australian Open 1 3 2 - 3 1 AF VF 3 AF AF VF 3 2 1 VF
French Open - 1 AF - HF 3 HF 1 1 3 2 VF 1 3 1 HF
Wimbledon 2 2 AF - 2 AF VF - AF VF AF 2 AF 3 1 VF
US Open - 2 2 1 AF VF VF 2 2 2 AF 1 3 AF 1 VF
WTA Tour Championships - - - - - - VR VR - VR - - - - - VR

Double

competition 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Career
Australian Open - - 1 - VF AF - - - 2 1 1 HF AF AF HF
French Open - 2 2 - AF VF HF - - 1 VF AF VF F. HF F.
Wimbledon 2 - AF - 2 VF VF - VF - AF AF VF 2 VF VF
US Open - 2 2 HF AF 2 AF VF - 2 VF F. HF VF VF F.
WTA Tour Championships - - - - - S. - - - - - - - S. HF S.

Web links

Commons : Nadja Petrowa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Petrova has now resigned for good. In: spox.com. January 8, 2017. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .