page_title: Nadia Petrova
section_title: 2007
hierarchical_section_title: Nadia Petrova / Career / 2007
caption_attribution_description: Nadia Petrova at her first-round match of the 2007 Australian Open.
context_page_description: Nadezhda Viktorovna Petrova is a retired Russian tennis player.
  In her career, she won 37 titles on the WTA Tour, 13 in singles and 24 in doubles. In singles, she reached a career-high ranking of world No. 3 in May 2006, reached two Grand Slam semifinals at the French Open in 2003 and 2005, and reached seven additional Grand Slam quarterfinals across all four major tournaments. She won the Tier-I tournaments in Charleston and Berlin in 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 doubles competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
context_section_description: At the Australian Open, she reached the third round, before falling to Serena Williams, the eventual champion, after holding a 5–3 lead in the second set.
  At the Open Gaz de France in Paris, Petrova picked up her seventh tour title and first of the season by beating Lucie Šafářová. Petrova reached the quarterfinals of the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, losing to Justine Henin. Petrova then reached the final in Amelia Island, losing to Tatiana Golovin.
  She was the eleventh-seeded player at the French Open, but lost to Květa Peschke, 5–7, 7–5, 0–6. After the loss, she claimed that the lower-back pain had been bothering her. It was her second consecutive first-round loss at the French Open because of injury.
  At Wimbledon, Petrova lost to Ana Ivanovic 1–6, 6–2, 4–6 in the fourth round.
  In the 2007 Fed Cup tie against the USA in July, Petrova played a pivotal role in securing the victory for her team. While losing on the first day against Venus Williams, she won her singles match against Meilen Tu on the second day, and then teamed with Elena Vesnina to beat Williams and Lisa Raymond in the decisive doubles rubber.
  At the JPMorgan Chase Open, Petrova reached her third final of the year, losing to Ana Ivanovic in straight sets.
  At the US Open, Petrova was seeded seventh, but lost to Ágnes Szávay, 4–6, 4–6. The loss meant that she had not gone past the fourth round of any Grand Slam tournament all year, the first time since 2002.
  She finished 2007 ranked No. 14, her lowest year-end ranking in five years.
caption: Nadia Petrova at the 2007 Australian Open
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