Wed, 09/22/2010 - 20:17 by harsheeb
Seoul -- No. 1-seed Nadia Petrova and defending champion Kimiko Date Krumm were straight-set winners Wednesday at the Korea Open tennis tournament in Seoul.
Players completed first-round play Wednesday, a day later than scheduled after rains caused the cancellation of all play Tuesday.
Date Krumm, who won the Korea Open final last year one day before her 39th birthday, opened her title defense with a 6-2, 7-5 win over Junri Namigata. She won more points (33-29) off Namigata's serve than Namigata did.
Petrova defeated Jarmila Groth, who was coming off a win at a tournament in China last week, 6-3, 6-2 in 63 minutes. Petrova lost her serve only once in the match.
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Sat, 08/28/2010 - 09:54 by Prince damin
New Haven, Conn. -- Nadia Petrova rallied for a three-set victory Friday in semifinal play of the $600,000 Pilot Pen Tennis tournament in Connecticut.
Petrova, the tournament No. 8 seed, got by unseeded Maria Kirilenko 2-6, 6-2, 6-2 in nearly 2 hours in earning her 20th WTA event finals appearance. But this is the first time since 2008 she's qualified for a tournament title match.
She will go against either top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki or No. 4-seeded Elena Dementieva in Saturday's finals. Wozniacki and Dementieva were to play their semifinal later Friday.
Petrova dropped serve twice in the first set but only faced on break-point situation the rest of the way. She won 62 percent of the points over the last two sets.
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Mon, 05/03/2010 - 09:45 by Rakhi
Rome -- Victoria Azarenka of Belarus and Russia's Nadia Petrova notched wins Sunday in the first round of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome.
Rainy conditions on the clay courts of the Foro Italico made for dicey conditions as only nine of the 11 scheduled matches were completed.
Azarenka, the No. 9 seed, breezed to a 6-1, 6-4 straight set win over Kazakh qualifier Sesil Karatantcheva.
Meanwhile, 14th-seeded Petrova had little trouble with Italy's Tathiana Garbin, 6-3, 6-2.
In a minor upset, 15th-seeded Russian Vera Zvonareva fell victim to Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-0.
Other winners Sunday included Russia's Maria Kirilenko and Italians Alberta Brianti and Maria Elena Camerin.
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Tue, 10/20/2009 - 04:15 by surajdogra
Moscow -- No. 5 seed Nadia Petrova coasted to a 6-2, 6-0 victory Monday over Yana Buchina on the opening day of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow.
Petrova, the runner-up in this event three years ago, reached the semifinals of the China Open in her most recent tournament but was denied what would have been her first championship match appearance of the year.
She will take on Alona Bondarenko in the second round following Bondarenko's 6-4, 6-3 decision over Anna Chakvetadze.
The biggest surprise on the first day of the tournament came when Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez defeated seventh-seeded Dominika Cibulkova 6-2, 6-2.
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Sun, 10/11/2009 - 00:41 by Salinder Kumar
Beijing -- Sixth-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova stormed into the championship match of the China Open Saturday with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Nadia Petrova.
Kuznetsova reached the finals in this tournament for the third time in five years, easily disposing of the player who had eliminated Serena Williams in the third round.
Agneiszka Radwanska also moved into the finals with a 6-4, 6-3 decision over Marion Bartoli.
Kuznetsova, the reigning French Open champion, will be playing her 20th career title match and her fourth in 2009. All three of her previous championship matches this year were against Dinara Safina, who was the No. 1 seed in this tournament and lost in the third round to Bartoli.
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Thu, 10/08/2009 - 21:09 by Inderjit Singh
Beijing -- Nadia Petrova won a third-set tiebreaker Thursday for a third-round upset of world No. 2 Serena Williams at the $4.5 million China Open in Beijing.
Williams was coming off a second-round win that assured her of returning to the No. 1 spot in the world rankings, but Petrova outlasted Williams 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5). It was only the second time in eight career meetings that Petrova beat Williams.
There were no service breaks in the third set but Petrova built a 5-1 lead in the tiebreaker. Williams fought back to 5-4 before Petrova closed out the match.
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Thu, 09/17/2009 - 09:19 by harsheeb
Quebec, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- No. 1 seed and defending champion Nadia Petrova coasted into the quarterfinals of the Bell Challenge Wednesday with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Madison Brengle.
Petrova, who was eliminated in the fourth round of the U.S. Open by Melanie Oudin, claimed the championship of this event last year with a victory over Bethanie Mattek-Sands.
Fifth-seeded Melinda Czink earned a quarterfinal match-up with Petrova by downing Severine Bremond Beltrame 6-4, 6-3.
No. 8 seed Julia Goerges advanced with a 6-2, 6-3 decision over Rebecca Marino and Alla Kudryavtseva surprised No. 6 Jill Craybas 7-5, 6-2.
Third-seeded Aleksandra Wozniak will play her second-round match Thursday against Regina Kulikova. The winner will meet Kudryavtseva in the quarterfinals.
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Wed, 09/16/2009 - 10:27 by harsheeb
Quebec, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Top-seeded Nadia Petrova and third-seeded Aleksandra Wozniak won their first-round matches Tuesday at the women's Bell Challenge.
Petrova, the defending champion, was an easy 6-2, 6-0 winner over Carly Gullickson in just 51 minutes. The Russian was coming off a three-set loss to American Melanie Oudin in the fourth round of the U.S. Open last week.
Wozniak defeated Corinna Dentoni by the same 6-2, 6-0 score to advance to the second round.
One seeded player lost. Last year's runner-up, Bethanie Mattek-Sands, defeated seventh-seeded Varvara Lepchenko, 6-4, 7-5.
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Fri, 08/07/2009 - 11:49 by preet_20
Los Angeles, Aug. 7: Zheng Jie pulled off one of the most significant wins of her career Thursday, upsetting world No. 1 Dinara Safina in the third round of the Los Angeles Open.
Zheng, a semifinalist at Wimbledon last year, won the final four games of the third set to defeat Safina 7-5, 4-6, 6-4. Safina earned a service break to take a 4-2 lead in the final set.
In the quarterfinals, Zheng will take on Samantha Stosur, who recorded a 6-3, 6-2 win over sixth-seeded Ana Ivanovic. Stosur surprised Serena Williams last week in Stanford before losing in the quarterfinals.
No. 2 seed Vera Zvonareva survived an upset bid when she got past Yanina Wickmayer 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 6-4.
Zvonareva will face Flavia Pennetta, who was a 6-3, 6-3 winner over Nadia Petrova.
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Tue, 07/28/2009 - 11:32 by surajdogra
Stanford, Calif. July 28: Third-seeded Elena Dementieva and fifth seed Nadia Petrova won their opening round matches Monday at the Bank of the West Classic at Stanford, Calif.
Dementieva eliminated Anne Keothavong, 6-1, 6-4 and Petrova dropped Bethanie Mattek-Sands, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.
Seventh seed Agnieszka Radwanska beat Sorana Cirstea, 6-0, 6-1.
In matches involving unseeded players, Melinda Czink beat Alisa Kleybanova, 6-0, 7-5; Monica Niculescu topped Meghann Shaughnessy, 6-1, 6-0; and Maria Sharapova beat of Ai Sugiyama, 6-4, 6-7 (6-8), 6-1.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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Sat, 04/11/2009 - 10:06 by Salinder Kumar
Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. -- No. 1 seed Nadia Petrova survived a difficult battle Friday before earning a spot in the semifinals of the MPS Group Championships in Florida.
Petrova, ranked 10th in the world, outlasted Alona Bondarenko 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5). Petrova had seven aces, but also committed 11 double faults in a match that lasted 2 hours, 36 minutes.
Petrova will face fifth-seeded Aleksandra Wozniak Saturday. Wozniak fought off Tamira Paszek 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (9-6).
The other semifinal will send Carolina Wozniacki against Elena Vesnina.
Wozniacki coasted past Daniela Hantuchova 6-2, 6-2 and Vesnina survived against Dominika Cibulkova 7-5, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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