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Bangalore: Jelena Jankovic Free For Weekend 2008-03-07 15:39:00 Jelena Jankovic lost in the Quarter-finals in Bangalore
suffering a surprising loss to Chinese Zi Yan in 3 sets 3:6 6:3 3:6. Both Zi and Sanda (Mamic) that Jelena played last week are out of Top 30.Zi made a break in first set in 8th game to make it 5:3, then won the set. Jelena made a break in 4th game of the 2nd set to make it 3:1. Zi returned the break of difference though Jelena kept playing her game and won the set.In 3rd set, Zi had a powerful start and led 4:0 in games, later to win the set 6:3 for her Semi-final appearance against Swiss Petty Schnyder who won against Akgul Amanmarudova in 3 sets 4:6 6:4 7:6. Jelena was tournament's #1 seed. She will now focus on the upcoming American Tour for which most Top players rested and did not participate in Bangalore. Read more:Jelena
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Bangalore: Jelena Jankovic In Yet Another Quarterfinal 2008-03-06 11:16:00 Jelena Jankovic has reached yet another Quarter-final this year after a 2:0 win over Croatian Sanda Mamic, 6:2 6:2. Jelena has reached at least the Quarterfinal round in every tournament she played in this year.Jelena achieved an easy win in Bangalore
against Sanda who was equal match only at the beginning of first set when it was 2:2 in games. Everything that followed was a routine one of #1 seed.Jelena will now play against Zi Yan who overcame Ukrainian Olga Savchuk convincingly 2:0 in sets, 6:2 6:1. Jelena and Zi played only once against each other, last year in Bangkok Thailand when Jelena withdrawal came due to injury. Zi is 23 years old and current World #54, #107 in Race, and mainly plays in the doubles where she is current World #13. Read more:Jelena
Jelena Jankovic's Good Time In India 2008-03-04 05:22:00 Jelena dedicated to participate in Bangalore India
tournament even though other top 5 players decided to take a week of rest before major North American tournaments starting next week.Jelena said she believes the matches in Bangalore will allow her to lift the form ahead of the trip to the USA where most important tournaments between the first 2 Grand Slams of the season, Australian Open and Roland Gaross, will take place.Here are Jelena's words: 'I didn't make it to the Final in Dubai, but I feel I improved my game. Still it's not my maximum, I think I'm on a good road to reach top form. My weaknesses at this moments are strength and durability, so I spend a lot of time on court in order to get tougher.'Against Kuznetsova I didn't have the straight at the end. I felt tired and I began to Read more:Jelena
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Ana Ivanovic's small 'crush on' 2008-03-03 03:33:00 With no Tennis going on over the weekend, it's off-court talk: Ana does not have a boyfriend, she's peaceful and feels no preasure to find him. Still if she could choose, she said she would pick an American actor.Answering questions from the fans, Ana said she ralaxes herself in front of the matches lately watching her favorite series 'Prison Break', and revealed she fancies the main actor Wenworth Miller.On the question what's is the one person she would like to spend her day with, regardless to whether that person is famous or not, or not among living, Ana against stated it's Miller himself.On a question by a fan if she feels preasure for not having a boyfriend being 18 years old, Ana said she has been asked that question a lot but she believes those kind of things happen when you least Read more:Ivanovic
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Dubai: Jelena Jankovic Lost, Had 23 break point opportunities 2008-02-29 07:46:00 Jelena lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova in a not so typical match, even more for a Semi-final of a Tier I Tournament. There were well over 40 break point
s to be seen, after 2 hours and 43 minutes Svetlana had more strength and will to win, in the end 2:1 in sets, 5:7 4:6 3:6, in front of not too many spectators in first match of the day.Jelena's loss was similar to Ana Ivanovic's loss against another Russian Elena Dementieva the day earlier (1:2 in sets, 5:7 6:3 6:3), Jelena and Ana played tennis not recognizable for them, weak performance with a few bright spots, handing over wins to opponents.After winning first set, Jelena had opportunity to secure a lead and likely a match win at 4:3 and her serve game, though Jelena chatted with the judge over a disputable ball and following challenge, the Read more:Dubai
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Dubai: Ana Ivanovic Lost To Elena Dementieva 2008-02-28 16:46:00 It's as if Ana lost to herself in the Quarterfinals of Dubai
with too many errors not typical for her, missed open shots and easy points given away that eventually led to defeat against World #11 Elena
Dementieva in 3 sets, 7:5 3:6 3:6.The match lasted 2 and a half hours on the Central Court in afternon hours local time, Ana looked to find her rhythm, in the final game of the match she almost found it, though there was no longer strength in her muscles for the turnaround.Ana saved 7 match points, came to opportunity to win a break game, then showed all those errors that brought her close to loss - Ana's 'winners' ended in outs and it was the end. Ana started good with 3:1 lead in first set, Elena turned things around to 4:3, Ana returned a break game, in 12th game won a break game with 'ze Read more:Ivanovic
Dubai: Jelena Jankovic In The Semi-Finals... And A Happy Birthday To You JJ :) 2008-02-28 16:14:00 There wasn't much tennis to be seen at the Center Court of Dubai
Tennis Complex in Jelena
Jankovic - Anna Chakvetadze match. Anna Chakvetadze withdrawal came in the second set after she lost first set 1:6 that lasted only 23 minutes all-together with the medical time-out. Anna was not able to continue due to pain in the thigh muscle. Jelena will have time to rest, the match was scheduled in morning hours local time and it didn't not last long. Jelena will play in the Semi-Final against Svetlana Kuznetzova who won over Amelie Mauresmo in 2 sets, 6:1 7:6.Today was a day to celebrate for sure, it's Jelena's 23rd birthday. Jelena shared with the fans a birthday cake she received as a present from the tournament organizators. Jelena explains: I sliced the cake and shared it to the fans. They s Read more:Happy
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Dubai: Ana Ivanovic's Easy Win Over Vaidisova 2008-02-27 16:51:00 There were only good news with Ana today, last week's injury is the thing of the past and great form is present. In the last match of the day, Ana won over Nicole Vaidisova in convincing way, with only first set exciting, in the end 6:4 6:0. Match lasted only 61 minute with Ana's 7 aces and 74% of won points on first serve. In 2 sets Ana won 6 break games while losing 2 serve games. Ana will tomorrow play against Elena Dementieva in the Quarterfinals, if she wins, the draw will probably bring her to Justine Henan in battle for the Final.Ahead of tomorrow's match, Elena has all stats on her side and this will be a great opportunity for Ana to win ove Elena for the first time in her career, as Elena won previous 2 matches. Ana and Jelena both made the Quarterfinal appearance and they could n Read more:Dubai
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Dubai: Jelena Jankovic In The Quarterfinals 2008-02-27 09:11:00 Jelena Jankovic won over Sania Mirza in 3 sets 4:6 6:4 6:3. This was the first time that Sania won a set against Jelena in their previous 3 matches. One of the most notable impressions of the match is Jelena not having match patience for what is going on aside the court to remind us on some of her younger days.Can this be another impression of Jelena's tiredness and exhaustion!? Jelena rightly complained about the boys that give tennis balls being rather slow, then another rightly complainment on the crowd that would start to cheer in the middle of the point when Sania would make a good shot.Jelena complained several times to the judge and he asked the audiance to cheer within the tennis manners. After 90 minutes of play, at the beginning of 3rd set, Jelena complained on line-judge's call, Read more:Dubai
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WTA Rankings: Ana Ivanovic #2, Jelena Jankovic #4, Dubai Ahead 2008-02-25 16:43:00 WTA Rankings
this morning (February 25th) brought the happy change of Ana being back at #2 after a week at #2 while Jelena
stayed at #4. First ranked Justine Henan gathered 6530 poings, Ana 3822 points, Svetlana Kuznesova 3725, Jelena 3670, while Maria Sharapova at #5 after winning Dubai
got close to Jelena with 3526 points.Monday Ana's ankle injury update: Ana is certain she will play in Dubai. With intensive care she managed to heal the injury and trained on today: 'I feel a lot better. I can walk without pain, that's certainly a progress. Sunday morning I didn't feel best, suddently in afternoon I felt a lot better. Chances that I will play are over 50%.To remind us Ana will play in Round 2 against Nicole Vaidisova, after as well Round 1 bye, Jelena will play in Round 2 against the winn Read more:Ivanovic
Ana Ivanovic Ahead Of Dubai 2008-02-24 15:18:00 It's been a long and stressful week behind Ana. Ana was in great shape when her withdrawal due to ankle injury came in Doha, as Ana said it was the most painful thing that happened to her on a tennis court. We hoped for Ana's revenge for loss in Australian Open Final against Sharapova in this time Dubai
Final, though Ana was not there and Sharapova today (February 24th) won Dubai.Ana lost only two games this year and is looking forward to successful week. Ana will play her fist match in Dubai on Wednesday in Round 2 against winner of the match between World #14 Nicole Vaidisova and a qualifier. Ana is #3 seed, thus receives a by in Round 1. Potential opponent in Round 3 could be World #11 Russian Elena Dementieva and Swiss Patty Schnyder. Ana could meet #1 seed Justine Henan (defending Cha Read more:Ivanovic
Ana Ivanovic Injury Update, Will Play In Dubai :) 2008-02-23 12:30:00 As we have feared about Ana being able to participate in Dubai
, days after Doha ankle injury and withdrawal, our fears are 'no more', as Ana herself explains: 'I did icing all evening and all night, waking up each hour. When I got up this morning I couldn’t even walk properly, so that pretty much decided it'. 'I went to the hospital for an MRI scan. Luckily there isn’t a tear, just some micro-tears. Now I just have to rest and hope that the injury recovers in time for the tournament in Dubai next week'.'It’s such a shame that this happened, because I felt I was playing well and I had good preparation for this tournament. I’m sorry to the spectators who were hoping to watch me in Doha, I’m also thankful for the many messages of support I received'.'Funnily enough, I was watching t Read more:Ivanovic
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Doha: Na Li Ends Jelena Jankovic's Run 2008-02-22 17:13:00 Sadly to say, Jelena
ended her participation in Doha in the Quarter-finals. With much injury problems and exhaustion Jelena complained on since beginning of the year, the question is should we find a bright spot in it all that Jelena made it at least to the Quarter-finals? Ana was not even able to be on court yesterday due to ankle injury. To remind us, a week before Doha Jelena compained about back pain problems. There is too much travel and though matches played all week long at this level, it effects bodies and muscles of our young Tennis Ladies can't take it all, especially with Jelena's decision to participate in so many tournaments last season.Jelena lost to her good friend Na Li, World #29, who missed a great part of last season due to injury and now is on way to Top 20. Na led from
Doha: Jelena Jankovic In Quarterfinals After An Easy Win 2008-02-21 15:00:00 Jelena made it in the Doha Quarterfinals after an easy win against Japanese player Ai Suguyama in two sets 6:1 6:2. Jelena, #3 seed, will play tomorrow againt Chinese Na Li, her good friend from the Doubles, who overcame Shahar Peer from Izrael in two sets 6:1 6:3.Li, curently World #29 has a positive score against Jelena with 3 wins and only 1 lose. Read more:Jelena
Doha: Ana's Withdrawal Before Radwanska match 2008-02-21 07:46:00 Sadly, Ana needed to withdraw before the start of Round 3 match against Radwanska. Ana waited just before the match to see if she will be able to play. It also was not on her luck for the match to be scheduled early in the morning giving her less time for rest.Ana's ankle injury did not heal overnight, it even worsen. Ana was strong favorite to win the match against Radwanska, as a #1 seed as well a favorite to win the Tournament. After withdrawing from Doha today, Thursday February 21st, it's question whether Ana will be ready for the next big Tournament starting in Dubai on Monday.
Doha: Jelena Jankovic in Round 3 against Ai Sugiyama 2008-02-21 05:02:00 Jelena managed to make it through to Round 3 where she will join Ana. Jelena kept faithful of playin 3 sets in her fist match in Doha and won yesterday against
Yaroslava Schvedova, World #52, 6:1 3:6 6:3. Now Jelena will be play in late hoours today, February 21st, against Ai Siguyama who made it to Round 3 by beating another Japanese Ayuni Morita as well in 3 sets 4:6 6:4 6:0.Jelena is a strong favorite to win and progress to the next round. Sadly, Ana got injured and her ability to move and run across the court is limited to make us more anxious in expectation for possible Jelena - Ana final in Doha. Both of our ladies are dealing with injuries, Jelena's recent back pain problems luckily are not showing in Doha. Read more:Jelena
Ana Uncertain Will She Continue To Play In Doha Due To Injury 2008-02-20 20:00:00 Ana, #1 seed in Doha, may need to withdrow from the tournament because of an ankle injury that she suffered in the 7th game of 2nd set against Belaruss Olga Govortzova. Ana slipped close to baseline and fell will painful expression on her face, she managed to temporarily heal ankle injury and win the match but it was evident it was a painful injury and Ana could have hardly walked.Her participation in Doha will be decided as tomorrow progresses. Ana said: 'It definitely hurts me a lot and I can hardly stand on that ankle. Doctors think it's a strain, but I will have to wait and see how the ankle will react over night. I will try to get well, I'll see if I could make to play'Ana said she had major problem to finish the match: 'I was little scared and I thought I my not be able to play until Read more:Injury
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Doha: Ana Ivanovic Stronger Than Injury and Govortzova 2008-02-20 18:40:00 Ana proved the role of number 1 favorite to win the title in Doha after a convincing win in her first match in Round 2 against Belaruss Olga Govortzova in two sets 6:3 6:1. Though, Ivanovic
suffered an ankle injury in the finish of the match and after first impression that the injury is serious enough for her she would need to withdrow, she found the strength to play 3 points more for the victory.Ana had initiative from the very start, strong play brought her 3:0 lead, after which she won the set as an experience player. At the beginning of 2nd set, ana managed to make a break and again dominate the match against world #50. Good movement, powerful and precisive shots allowed Ana to easily establish 5:1 lead and 30:30 in 7th game when she suffered left leg injury.She spent several moments l Read more:Injury
Rankings: Ana #3, Jelena #4, Ana Ready For Revenge against Sharapova in Katar 2008-02-18 11:28:00 On this morning's (February 18th, 2008) new WTA Rankings
, Ana has dropped one place down to #3 while Jelena
remainds at #4. Ana decided to pass tournaments in Tokyo (last year played in Final) and Antwerpen (last year in Quarter-Final) and did not defend those points. Svetlana Kuznetsova is now at #2 ahead of Ana for only 2 points, while difference between Ana and Jelena is 63 points, both in front of Sharapova
at #5 for more than 600 points. We talked about Jelena ahead of Doha, now it's turn for Ana. Great news is that Ana is #1 seed at $2.5 million Qatar Total Open as Justine Henan decided to pass Doha while playing in home country in Antwerpen last week (won the tournament yesterday). This is Ana's first time to be #1 seed at a tournament of Tier I magnitute and a lot of pressure will Read more:against
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Jelena Jankovic Made Short Stop To Visit Home-Town On Way To Doha 2008-02-15 11:47:00 Jelena visited her home town Belgrade where she was expected to attend the final ceremony at 'Sonny Ericsson Challenger' in men's competition played on her fist Tennis club's courts and present beaker to the winner on Sunday. Though, she needed to apologize as she will need to continue her travel to East to be best prepared for next week's Doha and a week after Dubai Tournaments.Jelena said: 'I used the opportunity to visit my club Gemaks after long time. I came to support my friends Viktor Troicki, Dusan Vemic and Ilija Bozoljac. I hope one of them to win the Tournament'. Jelena added that she can't stay long in Belgrade becuae she needs to heal back pain problems ahead of Doha starts on Monday.President of Gemaks Djordjo Antelj presented to Jelena a watch and thanked her on visit express Read more:Short
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Jelena's Slight Back Pain Problems 2008-02-12 13:00:00 Qatar Total Open in Doha starts on February 18th giving Ana and Jelena
needed time to rest. Almost two weeks, they needed that break after Australia and Fed Cup matches. Latest news say Jelena is feeling slight back pain problems. This can be another expression of a really exhausting 2007 season when more than many tournaments Jelena decided to participate in. Injury in early January at the Hopman Cup was a thigh muscle injury, she was standing on the baseline about to hit the ball coming along right line when her muscle could not take the preasure. Jelena talked about exhaustion during Australian Open and Fed Cup matches, and we may say that she did not take enough rest as the long season 2007 ended. Training hard is the only one can hope to be even better and reach higher, but with short Read more:Slight
Monday WTA Ranking: Ana & Jelena Holding Their Places, Doha Tournament Next 2008-02-11 15:14:00 In new WTA ranking (Monday
, February 11th) A & J are ranked unchanged, Ana #2 with 3.827 points, Jelena
#4 with 3.695. Justine Henan is still ranked #1 far away ahead of others with 6.555 points, while Svetlana Kuznecova is #3 with 3.760. The only changed in compare to last week's rankings made Ana Cakvetadze climbing to #6 while Venus Williams dropped to #7. Maria Sharapova is still ranked 5th. Ana and Jelena will next be playing in Doha as Top seeds #1 and #2 with Henan pulled out ahead of tournament in Justine Henan's home country Antwerp. Venus Williams will also miss Doha. Doha Top seeds will be following: #1 Ana Ivanovic, #Svetlana Kuznecova, #3 Jelena Jankovi, #4 Maria Sharapova, #5 Venus Williams, #6 Ana Chekvatadze, #7, Danijela Hantuchova, #8 Marion Bartolli.Among unseeded are Na Read more:Tournament
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Jelena's Problems With January Leg Injury 2008-02-10 06:49:00 Jelena had not fully recovered from the leg muscle injury she suffered during the 'Hopman Cup' in Perth Australia at the beginning of January
. She barely moved on the court in the remaining 'Hopman Cup' matches with injury problems, it was on everyone's amusement to see her and Novak Djokovic playing in the Final against Americans with Novak running all around the court and Jelena hardly being able to move, still she did not want to give up and she fought as much as her injury allowed her. Injury
followed her through Australian Open. Jelena is a player from Top 10 that had participated in the most tournaments during last year and many have commented should she slow down the fast pace of frequent travels to have more time to relax between the big tournaments. After 2007 was over, Jelena had Read more:Jelena
WTA Indian Wells Preview 2008-03-12 07:57:00 Indian Wells
(Pacific Life Open) started this week with the Qualification Rounds, in a day or two, Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic will be on court in Round 2. Great news is that Ana is #1 seed at yet another major Tier I tournament, while Jelena is #3 seed. Ana will play in Round 1 against the winner of Ioana Raluca Olaru (Romania) - Meng Yuan (China) match. Ioana is 19 years old currently in Singles at #77, #157 in Race, with a career high #55 in October 27 and has reached 1st Round in this year's Australian Open.Meng Yuan is a 21 year old currenttly in Singles at #86, #76 in Race with a career highest WTA rankings at #86 and has reached 2nd Round in this year's Australian Open. Ana will be absolute favorite to win the match against Ioana or Meng.Ana could meet in the next round Tathian Read more:Preview
WTA Ranking: No Changes This Week 2008-03-11 05:14:00 Ana kept #2 and Jelena #4 position in the WTA Ranking
s, with the difference that Jelena played past week in Bangalore and won 70 points while Ana rested for the American Tour. It will be interesting to see how A & J will do in the upcoming days in Indian Wells in compere to World #3 Svetlana Kuznetsova who defends emense 325 point (lost in the Final last year to Daniela Hantuchova 6:3 6:4) while A & J only 65 reaching 4th Round last year there, Jelena has good chances to improve to #3 position and Ana a good opportunity for Ana to move further away from #3 chaser. Winner of Indian Wells would earn great 425, while appearance in the Semi-Finals earns 210 points. As Jelena seems to be a specialist for Quarter-final appearances this year, Indians Wells Quarterfinals bring in 115. Both Ana and
Jelena Jankovic Looks For A Coach Wise/Funny Guy 2008-03-14 15:05:00 Jelena Jankovic needs a coach on the longer run, naturally for the world top player. In order to achieve the goal and reach further 3 steps up to World #1 position, Jelena will need a person who will be fully dedicated to her progress, but also the kind of person who will be.. humorous!Jelena explained: 'I try much to find the new coach. Will see in the next few weeks what will turn out from it. I hope to manage to find a coach who knows more about tennis than I do. Still, I'm not worried, a few names are in the option.Jelena ended her co-operation in Dubai last month with her coach she occasionally worked with for the reasons of not being satisfied with her condition and improvement in the play.Jelena will be preparing through the tournament in Indian Wells with the help of famous America Read more:Jelena
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Ana Ivanovic: 'I Still Have To Work On Myself' 2008-03-14 14:34:00 Ana Ivanovic
believes the stability in her play is the final piece of the championship picture she needs to put in place on the way of fulfilling her dream to win a Grand Slam: 'I like to set up goals for myself and now my main goal is to play without oscilations, that is to make equality between my unforced errors and 'winners'. If I manage to do that, I'll have great chance to win a Grand Slam.World #2 believes she improved in many elements of the game since January this year when she reached the Final of Australian Open: 'I improved my movement on the field and in the continuation of the season I'll be more agressive than I was up to now.''The titles I won last year and wins against world top players have given me great self-confidence'. Ana freshly remembers her two chances to win a Gr
Indian Wells: Jelena Jankovic In Between The Matches 2008-03-17 03:21:00 Jelena Jankovic found time in Indian Wells
to share her experiences with the fans. Jelena said it's cooler than what it was in Indian Wells
for the past couple of days, plus windy conditions make extra hard play conditions, still those 2 obsticles made her even more focus in order to overcome them.Jelena is getting up around 11am, she hasn't been able to adapt the best to changing time difference and the climate she experienced last week in India. As as a top player, usually her matches are scheduled later in the day and she can have more sleep, talking about some benefits of being in Top 5 :)Jelena is one of the leading stars in Indian Wells and it gives her little time for rest after the matches, usually there are press conferences, tv shows, fitness sessions.. To close the day, Jelena m Read more:Jelena
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