Nadia Petrova
Nadia Petrova
Nadezhda Viktorovna Petrovais a Russian professional tennis player...
attacks fast goes good
She has good serves, very strong, attacks fast and goes for winners,
matches playing running seem
She had me running around so much. She was playing so well out there. We always seem to have matches like these.
against happy top win
I feel pretty happy because that's my first win against a top 10 player.
early good hard players tough
There are many good players and pretty tough first-round matches. Things will be hard for me, as early as my first match.
beautiful cannot hard whatever wind
It's really hard with this weather. You just do whatever you need to. Unfortunately, with the wind you cannot play the beautiful game.
grand happy slam soon title
Not at all. I think I can say it can be frustrating to be No. 1 and having no Grand Slam titles. I'm happy where I am and I still have a lot of years to go. I know one day soon the title will come and there will be more to follow.
aggressive energy extremely feeling fighting hard hot overall played recover today
It was extremely hot out there today and very hard to recover after long points, ... I was feeling like I was a little out of energy and a little uncoordinated during some points. Overall I played well but I think I played too defensively. I should have been more aggressive and fighting for every point.
final further great happy played step tennis won
Sybille played great tennis today. But I am happy that I won and went through to the semis, ... I was in the final in 2003, so I would like to take it a step further this time.
happen hard wonderful worked
It's a wonderful feeling, ... I have worked so hard for this to happen and now it's come true.
bad bit both break match tough
We had break points, we had really bad points. We had a lot of unforced errors. It was a very tough match mentally, ... We both wanted to win. That's why we were a bit over-reacting, I can say.
bad both fought great hard points stuck
We both were on and off, ... We both had some great points and we both had some bad - a lot of unforced errors. But we both fought hard and stuck to the end.
clay clearer court definitely enjoy exciting feeling forward happy helps looking lots matches moment played playing relaxed
Definitely it's going to be very exciting and I'm very happy I've played lots of matches on clay so at the moment I'm feeling very confident. I'm really looking forward to the first match. I really enjoy the competition. Playing matches now, I feel much more relaxed on court and I think much clearer and that helps me a lot.
finish gone happened lucky match middle pain second third win worse
It happened during my quarterfinal match, about the middle of the second set, ... I was so into the match I didn't really feel it, but I must say it got worse and the pain was aggravating. I was lucky to win the second set and the tiebreaker, because if we'd gone to a third set I probably wouldn't have had enough to finish off the match.
came friendship playing stress
Our friendship came under a lot of stress when we started playing each other in the singles.