The No.1 seed at the Rogers Cup will not be holding the trophy this year, after Jelena Jankovic lost out to Iveta Benesova in her opening match at the $2-million tournament.
Jankovic, ranked No.3 in the world, has been working her way back from injuries the last few weeks - she hurt her back at Wimbledon and sprained her ankle in Portoroz - and the lack of match play showed, as she squandered a 5-3 first set lead and eventually went down to Benesova, a qualifier into the draw, 7-6(3) 6-3.
"I wasn't on my game, especially on the return. I couldn't stay in the points long and made a lot of errors. I just didn't feel like myself out there," Jankovic said. "I haven't been playing well for the last couple tournaments. I did my best out there."
In the other two night matches, No.8 seed Vera Zvonareva cruised past Yaroslava Shvedova, 6-2 6-1, and No.9 seed Li Na beat Jarmila Groth almost as handily, 6-3 6-2.
Jankovic, ranked No.3 in the world, has been working her way back from injuries the last few weeks - she hurt her back at Wimbledon and sprained her ankle in Portoroz - and the lack of match play showed, as she squandered a 5-3 first set lead and eventually went down to Benesova, a qualifier into the draw, 7-6(3) 6-3.
"I wasn't on my game, especially on the return. I couldn't stay in the points long and made a lot of errors. I just didn't feel like myself out there," Jankovic said. "I haven't been playing well for the last couple tournaments. I did my best out there."
In the other two night matches, No.8 seed Vera Zvonareva cruised past Yaroslava Shvedova, 6-2 6-1, and No.9 seed Li Na beat Jarmila Groth almost as handily, 6-3 6-2.
4 comments:
I had JJ having a good summer and there goes my predictions again haha. I think JJ rushed coming back from the Wimbledon injury and now she is paying the price. Her tendencies are to play a lot of tournaments, I would suggest JJ no more tournaments until U.S. Open. Yeah, like she will listen. I think the New Haven tournament is left.
"The Big Stuffed Bunny" is playing doubles with Dani H. I don't view her as a good doubles player. I hope Dani is giving "The Bunny" tips on doubles and modeling.
I have Pennetta upsetting "The Big Stuffed Bunny" in the third round.
Dani H. and "The Bunny" lost their doubles second round match. I'm not surprised.
sorry I haven't been able to reply I have been so busy latly and haven't been able to get on blogger for 2 days!
well unfortunalty that didn't happen, sadly.
Take your time "Captain" is not easy being a student at the uni. level.
A big Boooooooo to me, for being wrong all the time haha.
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