August 21 – 2006 - Martina Navratilova and Nadia Petrova captured the Rogers Cup doubles title with a decisive 6-1, 6-2 win over Cara Black and Anna-Lena Groenefeld, Monday afternoon and the Uniprix Stadium in Montreal.

The title was Navratilova’s fifth in doubles and eighth overall in Canada. She successfully defended the title she won in Toronto last y ear.

During the Montreal event, Navratilova and Petrova, who teamed up for the first time, defeated the first and second seeds. In the quarter-finals, Navratilova and Petrova ousted tournament favourites, Wimbledon champions Zi Yan and Jie Zheng of China in three sets. In the finals, they knocked off the second seeds, Cara Black and Anna-Lena Groenefeld. They completed dominated the final, taking only 52 minutes to put away the match.

Black and Groenefeld earned a berth in the finals after defeating Russian Dinara Safina and Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia 6-2, 6-2 indoors on Sunday evening.

Navratilova will only play in one more tournament before hanging up her racquet for good: The US Open, which begins next week.

The player, who turns 50 in the fall, has earned 167 singles titles and 177 doubles titles in her illustrious career.

Does anyone know who Martina is playing with at the Open? Hopefully it will be Petrova.

yes it is, or at least that's what navratilova had to say in some interview i read a couple of weeks ago

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just found the interview:

navratilova and us open

and she's playing mixed with bob bryan.

[ August 21, 2006, 01:40 PM: Message edited by: Badbackhand ]

Congrats to Martina. I'm delighted to see her win one more this year. And hopefully the partnership will exert a good mental influence on Petrova -- god know she needs one!

Petrova is a good match for her. I'd love to see them go deep in the women's doubles draw. Meanwhile, the pairing with Bob Bryan is interesting. She thought she was going to play with him at Wimbledon only to find out he had agreed to play with Venus. Doh. Martina was lucky to land another great partner. I believe the story goes that despite Venus asking him to play at the U.S. Open, he agreed to play with Martina in her final event.

I guess you gotta go with the legend in her swan song. Maybe they'll make it through the draw. You never know with mixed.

Then I'll cross my fingers that Bob takes Venus up on her invitation at the next slam.