Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Petrov ya fara yin wasan motsa jiki tare da Elena Bechke, wanda ya girme shi da shekaru biyu, a cikin 1987. Sun horar da Tamara Moskvina a Fadar Wasannin Yubileyny a St. Petersburg. Sun lashe lambar yabo ta farko ta kasa da kasa a 1988 Grand Prix International de Paris, kodayake sun rasa tawagar Olympics ta 1988 yayin da suka kammala na hudu a Gasar Wasannin Wasannin Wasannin Soviet. Farkon bayyanarsu a Wasannin Duniya ya kasance a Gasar Cin Kofin Duniya ta 1989. Bugu da ƙari, Bechke / Petrov ya gama na huɗu kuma da farko bai cancanci shiga ƙungiyar Soviet Worlds ba, amma sun ci nasara don maye gurbin ƙungiyar da ke da rauni. Sun kama lambar tagulla a wasannin farko na Duniya, amma sun sake zama na huɗu a Soviet Nationals a 1990, sun rasa Gasar Cin Kofin Duniya. A shekarar 1991, sun kasance na uku a Gasar Kasa da na hudu a Duniya. A cikin 1992, sun ci nasarar Soviet Nationals a kan ƙungiyoyin Evgenia Shishkova / Vadim Naumov da Marina Eltsova / Andrei Bushkov (abokan horar da Bechke / Petrov da manyan abokan hamayya, Natalia Mishkutenok / Artur Dmitriev, sun rasa Nationals amma sun cancanci shiga wasannin Olympics saboda su ne Shugabannin Duniya masu mulki). Bechke/Petrov sun kuma lashe lambobin azurfa a gasar Olympics ta 1991.
da kuma gasar zakarun Turai ta 1992, da kuma lambar azurfa a gasar Olympics ta 1992 a bayan Mishkutenok / Dmitriev. Mai tsara su shi ne Alexander Matveev. Sun yi ritaya daga gasar amateur bayan gasar cin kofin duniya ta 1992.