Jelena Jankovic was a former world number one professional tennis player that was born in the year 1985 in the country of Belgrade. Reaching the finals of the 2008 U.S Open, Jelena Jankovic also won the 2007Wimbeldon Mixed Doubles title and had ranked 18th. Jelena Jankovic is presently being coached by former Dinara Safinacoach, Zelijko Krajan.
To talk about a bit of her personal life we notice that Jelena Jankovic was born in Belgrade and was the child of two economist. She also took up economics as a subject in her college education but then put it for an indefinite hold when she decided to pursued tennis as her career. Jelena Jankovic learnt her Tennis skills in the tennis club – Red Star. She then won the 2001 Australia Open Championship as a junior and was the junior number one in the world.
At the 2012 Australia Open, Jelena Jankovic was the 13th seed but she defeated Laura Robson, Kai Cheg Chang and Christina Mc Hale in the first few opening rounds. After this she defeated Wozniacki in the fourth round. Jelena Jankovic then teamed up with Australian Tennis player Bernard Tomic. Next up Jelena Jankovic played the 2012 Qatar Total Open where she received a bye in the second round and next continued the chain of games with the Dubai Duty Free Open. Jelena Jankovic was nearly out in the first round but then somehow managed to reach the semifinals where she was finally defeated by Radwanska. Jelena Jankovic then started off with the American hard court season by starting off with Indian Wells. The European season was started off by playing in the E books Sony Ericsson Open. Jelena survived Laura Robson defeating her and comin gout of her losing streak. Next waiting for Jelena is the Fed Cup when she plays against Russia.
Jelena Jankovic has led Serbia to a one – nil lead over Russia in their Federation cup tie. The number one Serb seed outclassed yer younger Russian opponent Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, taking her down in strait sets.
The match, which is being played in Russia, is one of the Semi Finals currently being played with Italy and the Czech Republic contesting the other.
Despite her high ranking, this is the first time that the highest ranked female tennis player in the world has managed to beat Pavlyuchenkova. The fact that she hasnt beaten the Rusisan before can’t be put down to lack of opportunity with the two players haveing previously played three times.
“I lost three of my previous meetings with Nastia (Pavlyuchenkova) at hardcourts,” said Jankovic said. “This time we played in red clay and though the court was not perfect it fits my tennis better than any other surface.”
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Women’s tennis these days has become synonymous with the word ‘grunt’ with many, rather most of the top tennis players screaming their lungs out when hitting a shot, sometimes courting controversy as was done by Serena Williams at the US Open Final last year and sometimes being mimicked by the fans, just for the fun of it and one woman who is not too keen to cut down on her screaming is Serbian tennis ace Jelena Jankovic. Jankovic has not been in the best of forms recently, having been knocked out of the WTA Tour event at Indian Wells recent quite unceremoniously but she is not one to take into account what others think of her grunt and cut it down.
According to Jankovic, it is something that comes to her naturally when she hits a shot and there is no way that she is going against her natural instincts in trying to make it more comfortable for the fans or her opponent for that matter. Jelena Jankovic, however, did point out that it was not her but Russian tennis beauty Maria Sharapova who has the strongest grunt in the world of women’s tennis at moment.
She did happen to mention that although she grunts herself, it is extremely hard to concentrate amidst the loud screams of the opposition player. But that still doesn’t change anything and according to her, in the world of power tennis, it has become a part of the tennis culture.
Jelena Jankovic very candidly replied that during the days of Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graff, it was all about skill but today, one has to rely on skill and power and when a powerful shot leaves the racket with a lot of force generated from the body, the scream or the grunt comes as a natural reaction.
The former world No 1 tennis player Jelena Jankovic is all set to tear up the town in Malaysia. She will be celebrating her 27th birthday in Kuala Lumpur during the BMW Malaysian open tennis championship and is very much excited!
The 27 yr old Serbian has won 12 tour titles before but had never won a grand slam title. The intellectual and compelling Jankovic has always loved and enjoyed working things out for herself. The tournament will take place at Bukit Kiara Equestrian Club. She is expected to win the tournament and we all hope she does – her last victory was in Indian Wells.
Before her loss to Polish fifth seed Agnieszka Radwanska in the Dubai tournament, she won against US Open champion Samantha Stosur. That was a great achievement for her! After her triumph over Stosur, everyone started referring her as the former world number one, on a slow slide. These types of silly remarks meant nothing for this 27 yr old charming lady – her main aim is to regain the number one spot and that needs her to do a lot of practice. Currently she is ranking No 14.
After her recent losses, she thought of appointing a coach who can guide her back to the top, and started working with Henner Nehlar.
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