Nadia Petrova News

LONDON (AP) _ The two highest-ranked players in the first round of the Fed Cup will play in the opening singles matches for Russia on Saturday. Ninth-ranked Nadia Petrova and fifth-ranked Svetlana Kuznetsova were picked Friday to lead a deep Russian team against Spain on clay at the Luzhniki Indoor arena. Petrova will open against Anabel Medina Garrigues and Kuznetsova, a former U.S. Open champion, will face Lourdes Dominguez-Lino. Maria ...

It's an all-Russian final in the men's and women's events at the Kremlin Cup on Sunday. Top-seeded Nikolay Davydenko defeated Fabrice Santoro of France 6-4, 6-1 Saturday and will play either Marat Safin or Igor Kunitsyn, while Nadia Petrova will play Anna Chakvetadze. The sixth-ranked Davydenko, the 2004 champion, has not dropped a set on his way to his sixth final this season and will be chasing his fourth title this season. Davydenko won six consecutive games in ...

Russian Nadia Petrova won her fifth title of the year at the Porsche Grand Prix, beating 18-year-old Tatiana Golovin of France 6-3, 7-6 (4) Sunday. The seventh-ranked Petrova rode her powerful serve to beat the French teenager, who knocked her out of the U.S. Open in the third round. The Russian, unbeaten in finals this year, picked up her sixth career title and first since May, when she won the German Open. ``I'm very happy,'' Petrova said. ``It ...

Top-ranked Amelie Mauresmo won her China Open debut Thursday to set up a quarter-final matchup with fifth-seeded American Lindsay Davenport. France's Mauresmo cruised past China's Sun Tiantian 6-3, 6-2 and Davenport eliminated China's Zheng Jie 6-2, 7-6 (4). Third-seeded Russian Nadia Petrova and No. 6 Russian Jelena Jankovic also won second-round matches in straight sets. Former No. 1 Davenport has won her last nine matches against Mauresmo and 12 of ...

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. (AP) _ Top-seeded Nadia Petrova easily advanced to the semifinals of the Bausch & Lomb Championships on Friday, while second-seeded Patty Schnyder dropped out of the clay-court event. Petrova, No. 7 in the world, beat Spain's Virginia Ruano Pascual 6-3, 6-0, and fifth-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia routed Schnyder 6-3, 6-1. Petrova won the final nine ...