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| Birth Name(s) : Jelena Jankovic |
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Full Jelena Jankovic Biography
Jelena Janković (Serbian Cyrillic: Јелена Јанковић, pronounced ; born on February 28, 1985) is a Serbian professional female tennis player.
In October 2003, Janković entered the top 100 at No. 90 for the first time after winning her first ITF title in Dubai. Three months later, Janković garnered her first top 10 win against Elena Dementieva 6-1, 6-4 in the first round of the 2004 Australian Open. She then lost to Jill Craybas in three sets in the second round. In May, Janković won her first WTA title, a Tier V event, in Budapest, defeating Martina Suchá in the final 7-6, 6-3. Following her win in Budapest, she reached No. 51 in the world. Elsewhere in her 2004 season, she defeated top 20 players Nadia Petrova (twice), Vera Zvonareva, Patty Schnyder and Paola Suárez. Janković finished 2004 ranked No. 28 in the world.
At Janković's first tournament following the U.S. Open, she reached the semifinals at the Tier II China Open, losing to Amélie Mauresmo 6-1, 3-6, 7-6. At 6-5 in the third, Janković served for the match, but was broken at 15-40. After Beijing, Janković made the Guangzhou semifinal, retiring against Anna Chakvetadze 0-2 in the second. Then, in her last four events of the year, she reached the quarterfinals three times, losing to Kuznetsova, Vaidišová and Poutchkova, respectively.
At the first Tier I event of the year in Tokyo, Janković defeated Zheng Jie in straight sets in the second round, but ended up losing to countrywoman Ana Ivanović 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 in the quarterfinal. In late February 2007, she entered the 2007 Dubai Tennis Championships and reached the semi-finals relatively unchallenged, before she retired from the match with an ankle injury against Amélie Mauresmo. The following week, she continued her streak in the Middle East at Doha, reaching the semifinals again, losing to Justine Henin in 3 sets; the result brought her ranking to a career-high #9. At Miami, Janković reached the third round before losing to Italian Mara Santangelo in three sets 6-2, 6-7, 4-6.
On August 1, Janković qualified for the WTA Tour Championships in Madrid, Spain. She is currently second in the race behind Justine Henin who has also qualified.
Jelena then travelled to Asia for her next tournaments. Her first one was the 2007 Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic. Janković was the #1 seed there but she lost in the quarters to former World No.1 Lindsay Davenport, who was playing her first singles tournament after comeback. Davenport ended up winning 6-4, 2-6, 6-2.
Janković then travelled to Beijing for the China Open, where she had some good results in 2006 that pushed her to the semifinals. She had received a wildcard after top-ranked Justine Henin withdrew from the event, citing illness. After receiving a bye in the first round, she shutted out an opponent for the third time in her career, this time Virginia Ruano Pascual, one of the best doubles players in the world. Janković lost only 4 points in the second set, and those were all on her serve (meaning she broke Ruano Pascual to love throughout the second set). She then defeated Japanese Akiko Morigami 6-3, 7-5 in a difficult match to set up a rematch with Lindsay Davenport, a player who beat her just one week ago in the quarterfinals of Bali, returning as a former number 1 from child birth to her son Jagger Jonathan. Davenport was on a 8 match streak, but that was brought to an end, when Janković took control and won in straight sets, 6-3, 7-5. In the final, Janković faced talented Hungarian teenager Ágnes Szávay and lost to 6-7(7), 7-5, 6-2. She trailed 5-0 in the tiebreak, then faced a couple of set points before storming to win it and held a comfortable 5-1 lead in the second set (including a match point at 30-40 on Szávay's serve). However, Szávay then started to play better compared to the first set (cutting the unforced errors) while Janković seemingly got burned out and bothered by a neck injury. Szávay comfortably won the third and decisive set.
She returned to action in the Tier II tournament at Stuttgart, and after some initial struggles looked to be in control against Israeli Shahar Pe'er, winning 4-6, 6-1, 6-3. She advanced to the semifinals after defending champion Nadia Petrova, whom she is playing, retired after reaggravating a thigh injury. Janković had lost the first set 7-6(5), but led 5-1 in the second. She then faced Justine Henin, losing a tight match 7-6(2), 7-5. Janković's hectic schedule then took her to Bankgkok, where she lost to Yan Zi due a retirement, possibly due to fatigue. After a first round bye at the 2007 Zürich Open she lost to tricky opponent Nicole Vaidišová 6-4 6-4
Janković was born in Belgrade, in then Yugoslavia, now Serbia, as the third child of Veselin and Snežana Janković, both economists. Her father is from Montenegro, and her mother is Serbian. She also has two brothers, Marko and Stefan. She is a student at the Megatrend University in Belgrade, studying economics; however, she has put her course of study on indefinite hiatus as she continues to pursue her tennis career. She trained at tennis club "Red star"
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- 1If ITF women's circuit (Hardcourt: 23-10; Clay: 14-7) participations are included, her overall win-loss record stands at 265-149.
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