Background
Nadezhda Belonenko was born in the city of Taganrog.
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.
She moved to Moscow in 1939. She also reached the finals of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Championships twelve times: 1940, 1944–1946, 1951 (singles) and 1944–1945, 1947, 1949–1952 (doubles). Participant of several Moscow–Leningrad matches, and matches with tennis players from Chekhoslovakia (1938) and Hungary (1949).
Belonenko coached at the Soviet Wings (ДСО "Крылья Советов") sports society from 1942 to 1946.
Belonenko was continuously included into the top ten Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics 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 the her home city of Taganrog, traditional annual memorial tennis tournaments (Мемориал Белоненко – Memorial Belonenko) were held.
