Nadezhda Viktorovna Petrova (Russian: Надежда Викторовна Петрова; born 8 June 1982) is a Russian former professional tennis player.\n', '

Overall, she has won 37 WTA Titles, 13 in singles and 24 in doubles. In singles, she reached a career-high ranking of world No. 3 in May 2006, and reached the semifinals of the French Open in 2003 and 2005, and won Tier I tournaments: Charleston 2006, Berlin 2006 as well as Tokyo 2012. In doubles, Petrova won the year-ending WTA Championships in 2004 with Meghann Shaughnessy, and in 2012 with Maria Kirilenko. With Kirilenko, she also won the bronze medal in the women\'s doubles at the 2012 Summer Olympics.\n', '

Petrova 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. Her father is still an athletics coach, and her mother was an athletics coach until her death in 2013. 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 Saif and her parents.\n', '

Return to Nadia Petrova Autograph Profile