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Nadia Petrova pulls out of Australian Open after mother's death
Updated On: 24 December, 2013 02:11 PM IST | | AFP
Russian tennis star Nadia Petrova has pulled out of January's Australian Open following the death in a car accident of her mother, herself an Olympic athletics bronze medallist
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The withdrawal of both players was reported by Russian media and confirmed on the official Twitter account of the Australian Open.
Petrova'smother Nadezhda Ilyina, who died in a car accident in the Moscow region on December 7. A successful 400 metre runner, she won a bronze in the 4x400 relay in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal.
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