Nadezhda Belonenko


Nadezhda Mitrofanovna Slavinskaya-Belonenko, was a Soviet Russian tennis player, four-time Soviet Union Champion.
Nadezhda Belonenko was born in the city of Taganrog. She graduated from the Taganrog Aviation Technical School and started practicing tennis in Taganrog in 1928. Belonenko became champion of North Caucasus in 1931 and 1932, champion of the Azov Sea and Black Sea region in 1934. She moved to Moscow in 1939.
Belonenko was a four-time champion of the USSR: 1948, 1949, 1950, and 1948. She also reached the finals of USSR Championships twelve times: 1940, 1944–1946, 1951 and 1944–1945, 1947, 1949–1952. 7-time winner of the All-Union Winter Competitions. Champion of the All-Union Central Council of Professional Unions in 1939, 1944–1945 in women singles, and in 1945 in doubles. Winner of the Estonia Open tournaments in singles and doubles in 1947–1948. 12-time Champion of Moscow in singles and in doubles. Winner of the Moscow Cup in 1947, playing for Spartak. Participant of several Moscow–Leningrad matches, and matches with tennis players from Chekhoslovakia and Hungary. Belonenko coached at the Soviet Wings sports society from 1942 to 1946.
Belonenko was continuously included into the top ten USSR tennis players from 1943 to 1955, topping the rating three times - from 1948 to 1950.
She retired in 1961 and died in Moscow in 1964.
In the 1980s in her home city of Taganrog, traditional annual memorial tennis tournaments were held.

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