Petrova Powers To Quebec Title

By Chris Soderstrom

Top seeded Russian Nadia Petrova snared her second title of the season yesterday, defeating Bethanie Mattek in three at the Quebec Open.

Petrova rallied from a first set deficit to win 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 and now has eight career titles to her name - including the Cincinnati title in August.

“It was really wonderful to win this event,” said Petrova. “To finish off the season like this is wonderful.”

The 26-year-old will now have to hastily fly to the other side of the globe to contest the season-ending event in Doha this week.

“Now I have a long journey ahead of me to Doha, but it’ll definitely be worth it. And then it’ll be really nice to put the racquets aside for a few weeks!”