WTA Tour - Jankovic cruises in Stuttgart

Eurosport - Sun, 05 Oct 14:31:00 2008

Serbia's Jelena Jankovic celebrated her imminent return to the top of the world rankings with an easy 6-4 6-3 victory over Nadia Petrova in the Stuttgart Grand Prix final.

TENNIS Jelena Jankovic Stuttgart - 0

Second seed Jankovic, who will replace Serena Williams as world number one on Monday, took advantage of regular errors from the unseeded Russian Petrova to clinch victory in 83 minutes.

Petrova, champion at the indoor hardcourt event in 2006, played aggressively but was never able to match the consistency of Jankovic, who took the first set thanks to a single break in the Russian's opening service game.

Petrova lost her serve early in the second, too. She broke back for 3-3 but a desperate backhand wide gave Jankovic the advantage straight back and she stormed through to win a second successive title after last week's victory in Beijing.

"That's two titles in two weeks and I'm back up to number one so obviously things are going pretty well for me now,"

Jankovic, who gets to choice between prize money of £55,000 or a Porsche car, said.

Petrova's afternoon was summed up by the final game.

Serving to stay in the match, she planted an easy volley about a metre long to go 0-15 down. She was then wrong-footed by a Jankovic backhand that flew past her for 0-30.

Petrova wafted a crosscourt forehand well long to give Jankovic three match points and handed over the first of them with an awful approach that hit the top of the net.

Jankovic had not had to do anything spectacular; just keep getting the ball back and wait for the inevitable error.

"I went for every single point and tried everything," Petrova said courtside. "I just made too many unforced errors and the key to playing Jelena is to be consistent."

Reuters

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  1. at one rank we need a well behaved stylish player like­ ANNA IVANOVIC to grace the courts

    From tttobyjug, on Tue 7 Oct 7:35PM

  2. HI LANA 7 Wrong yet again as KREMLIN CUP HAS 8 seeded­ p[layers as usual
    Venus was seed 6 in Jelena­ section of draw but Pennetta kindly removed her to­ allow JJ easy route to final

    also Lana .,.,.Svetlana­ Kuznetsova is in different half of draw from JJ so­ can't play each other next ..!

    From tttobyjug, on Tue 7 Oct 7:33PM

  3. @Igor K comment 100 /// I couldn't agree more !!

    From lana17g, on Tue 7 Oct 12:01AM

  4. Lots of people here just hates JJ and her sucess.­ Couldn't be onest even to themselves and acept new­ champion!
    Whatever she is doing thay will just­ critisize. This girl rocks, and if GS is playing now,­ she would have won it without problem ! Shot up lossers­ !

    From Igor K, on Mon 6 Oct 11:03PM

  5. in moscow quarter final might be Venus but Russians­ willmaintain mum's vodka supply

    From llorretta, on Mon 6 Oct 8:33PM

  6. dear lucky jelena more lucky still as Vera Zvonareva­ & Victoria Azarenka
    are also both in other half of­ draw to help provide easy passage

    From vvagabond747, on Mon 6 Oct 8:23PM

  7. well lana dear ,,, wrong again as 2nd round loser in­ moscow gets only 60 points not 70

    russian organisers­ are very kind have given Jelenar day off 2moro

    From vvagabond747, on Mon 6 Oct 8:20PM

  8. lucky jelenar
    Svetlana Kuznetsova++Anna Ivanova­ ++dinara Safina++ Ana Chakvetadze +are in other half of­ draw
    so Russian organisers have treated her kindly

    From vvagabond747, on Mon 6 Oct 8:13PM

  9. vvagabond747 Jelena won 2 tournaments in 2 weeks, from­ Asia to Europe and she is injured. It will be great if­ she even pass 2nd round couse she is not defending­ single pts and was suppose to withdraw from WTA Moscow­ but unlike others, she is truly champion and fights­ till the end. What ever Jelena do in Kremlin cup, she­ will get pts (at least 70 if she lose in start) because­ she is has no pts there to defend. So after Moscow she­ will again be World No1.

    From lana17g, on Mon 6 Oct 8:10PM

  10. so sorry I was wrong
    In fact there are 11 {eleven}­ highly talented charming Russian girls in the KREMLIN­ CUP .,.,! !

    From vvagabond747, on Mon 6 Oct 7:57PM

  11. well lana 88 .,., simply give us your figures please­ darling

    From vvagabond747, on Mon 6 Oct 7:51PM

  12. jelenar has about 8 talented Russian girls waiting for­ her in Moscow in draw of 32

    how many will she manage­ to get past ?

    Being No 1 now she is expected to win­ them all .. Ha Ha Ha !

    From vvagabond747, on Mon 6 Oct 7:46PM

  13. Iana (comment 78)you appear to have misread what I­ wrote. I said that if the WTA called Tier 1 tournaments­ "major events" in their yeearbook, as some­ people have said, then they have caused confusion and­ should not have referred to them as such. Of course,­ describing the Tier 1 events as the "major­ titles" on the WTA tour is not factually incorrect­ since the slams are run by the ITF. On the whole I­ agree with Isabellet. I suspect if you asked Jelena to­ list the Majors she has won, the only one she would­ mention would be her Wimbledon mixed doubles title.

    From Bobito, on Mon 6 Oct 7:44PM

  14. wot are yahoo playing at accepting comments submitted­ then print 5% of item

    From vvagabond747, on Mon 6 Oct 7:40PM

  15. wot is yahoo up to with comments submitted

    From vvagabond747, on Mon 6 Oct 7:37PM

  16. vvagabond747 I said she has lots of victories... Like­ she won most of matches than any other WTA player did.

    From lana17g, on Mon 6 Oct 7:35PM

  17. lana 17 she simply harvested points +prize money from­ tournaments without winning them

    From vvagabond747, on Mon 6 Oct 7:35PM

  18. lana she didn't keep winning ,, simply reached­ later stages of lot of events without winning

    From vvagabond747, on Mon 6 Oct 7:31PM

  19. @Emilija Jana
    Oops... jeste da, osvojila je pobedivsi­ sestru Serenu... i dalje to nije mnogo, vec samo jedan­ GS ove godine... a tebi hvala za ovo­ "izvalis"...

    From jasnasto, on Mon 6 Oct 7:29PM

  20. but lana but she didn't win more she only reached­ more later rounds WITHOUT winning

    From vvagabond747, on Mon 6 Oct 7:27PM
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