Jelena Jankovic HD Practice (Mini tennis)

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DUVAL NEXT

Jelena Jankovic will play against Victoria Duval of USA in the second round of the Sony Open on Friday. That will be her opening match in the tournament as she has been given a bye in the first round.

In this season, Jankovic’s performance hasn’t been great so far. She has participated in four tournaments in this season and in three of them, her performance was not up to the mark.

The first tournament in which Jankovic took part this year was Apia International Sydney Tennis Tournament. She got knocked out from the second round of that tournament.

Australian Open was the next tournament for Jankovic. Her performance was below par in that tournament as well. She only managed to reach the third round where she was defeated by her countrywoman Ana Ivanovic.

After performing poorly in her first couple of tournaments in the season, Jankovic came back in her next tournament i.e. WTA Bogota Open tennis championship. She went on to win that competition by securing win over Paula Ormaechea of Argentina. That was the 13^th title won by Jankovic in her career.

Jankovic couldn’t maintain her form in the BNP Paribas Open and got defeated in the second round there.

Duval who will be Jankovic’s opponent on Friday is currently at no. 376 in the official rakings of WTA. She is only 17 years of age and she has not faced too many quality players in her career so far. So, the match against Jankovic will be a huge challenge for her.

When asked if she is excited about Friday’s clash against Jankovic, Duval said, “Yes, off course. I have nothing to lose. I will just go out on the court and enjoy my game.”

“Jelena has been around for more than 10 years now. She has got a whole lot of experience and to face her will be a very hard task for a youngster like me. I am just hoping for the best.”

KUZNETSOVA SNEAKS THROUGH

Jelena Jankovic has been defeated by Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia in the second round of the BNP Paribas Open. Kuznetsova won the match by 0-6, 6-2, 7-5.

The way Kuznetsova had played in the opening set, very few people would have expected her to dominate in the next two sets. But, the Russian player did that. She looked a completely different player after losing the first set. Read more »

Svetlana Kuznetsova vs Jelena Jankovic 2009 Rome Highlights

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JANKOVIC LOSES OUT

Jelena Jankovic has been defeated by her compatriot Ana Ivanovic in the third round of the Australian Open 2013. Ivanovic won the match in the straight sets by 7-5, 6-3. With the help of this comfortable win, Ivanovic reached the pre quarter final round.

There is not much difference in the world rankings of these two players and a tight contest was anticipated by the crowd. But, that didn’t happen. It was Ivanovic who dominated for most parts of the match and pulled off an easy victory.

Ivanovic started pretty well. With a serve break in the third game of the first set, she got ahead by 2-1. The next three games went with the serve and at the end of the sixth game; Ivanovic was leading by 4-2.

Jankovic’s service was broken again in the seventh game. Ivanovic was serving for the set in the 8^th game, but, she didn’t manage to serve it out. She dropped her serve and the lead was reduced to 3-5.

Jankovic equalized the scores with another serve break in the 10^th game. The set seemed to be going towards the tie breaker, but, that wasn’t the case to be. Ivanovic got yet another breakthrough in the 11^th game and then, by holding her serve in the next game, she won the first set.

In the second set, Ivanovic held her entire serve and broke Jankovic’s service in the third and the ninth game to win the set by 6-3.

In the next match, Ivanovic will take on Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland. Radwanska has been in great form recently and she has won her last 12 games on the trot. So, it’s not going to be easy for Ivanovic to go past Radwanska.

Ivanovic and Radwanska have played against each other 7 times before.  Out of those 7 matches, Ivanovic won 3 and lost 4.

Sorana Cirstea vs Jelena Jankovic 2009 RG Highlights

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