Italians pose daunting challenge to young Americans
Ravi Ubha, ESPN.com...in Los Angeles and knocking off the likes of Venus Williams, Maria Sharapova, Vera Zvonareva and Nadia Petrova to become the first Italian to crack the top 10. While Oudin made plenty of headlines...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 04, 2009Oudin's mettle made her fan favorite
Abigail Lorge, TENNIS.com...back into contention. In the round of 16, Oudin lost the first set to No. 13 Nadia Petrova by the dismal score of 6-1, and was down a break in the second before...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 09, 2009Wednesday, May 27
...have hockey and basketball too. French Open leads the way with streak favorite Maria Sharapova against Nadia Petrova. Petrova is the favorite here but Sharapova is receiving all the love so far. One of...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 26, 2009Don't bet on Serena's winning the calendar Slam
Abigail Lorge, TENNIS.comWhen it comes to statistics, I'm no Nate Silver (although I did waste far too much time on Silver's FiveThirtyEight.com last year in the lead-up to th...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 05, 2009Welcome back, Ana
Tom Perrotta, TENNIS.com...great champion." Ivanovic struggled mightily after the U.S. Open, too, losing early-round matches to Nadia Petrova, Zheng Jie and Dominika Cibulkova. But in Linz, Austria, last week, far away from all the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 29, 2008The "other" woman
Kamakshi Tandon, TENNIS.com...the free-swinging, athletic performances that saw her grab the U.S. Open title in 2004. Nadia Petrova: "It's time I won a major," has been a frequent refrain from the forthright Russian...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 29, 2007Serbia's moment
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...first one in April in Miami). Meanwhile, on the far side of the continent, Ivanovic hammered Nadia Petrova, 7-5, 6-4, to win the East West Bank Tennis Classic in Carson, Calif. So...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 12, 2007Beauty of Fed Cup
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.comBreak up the Italians! That's the cry resounding all around tennis after another Fed Cup weekend that can only be called … amusing. What's Fed Cu...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 16, 2007Henin and the others
Kamakshi Tandon, TENNIS.com...underperforming or injured -- or both -- and are ripe for an early upset (Amelie Mauresmo, Martina Hingis, Nadia Petrova, Elena Dementieva). Others will be vulnerable because they don't like clay and won't have...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 02, 2007Semis taste sweet to Serena
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...to compete, yet still rain horror on women ranked 50, 60 places above you (Exhibit A: Nadia Petrova, the tournament's No. 5 seed, whom Serena clubbed out in Round 3), they'll get...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 23, 2007Players not to watch in 2007
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...and perhaps not (yet) mentally or emotionally strong enough to be a regular Grand Slam contender. Nadia Petrova: This tall, thoughtful Russian with smooth strokes and an appealing personality put up a huge win...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 08, 2007EXPLORE RELATED TOPICS
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