PARIS (Reuters) - Third seed Jelena Jankovic came through an injury scare before booking a place in the third round of the French Open on Thursday at the expense of New Zealand's Marina Erakovic.

The Serbian, a semi-finalist last year, received medical attention to an injured right wrist after the fifth game of the second set, but recovered her composure to win 6-2 7-6 in an hour and 51 minutes on Court Suzanne Lenglen.

Jankovic looked to be cruising against her Croatian-born opponent but felt a twinge in her arm after a bruising rally.

She immediately broke for a 4-2 lead but Erakovic hit back and served for the set at 6-5 before going down 7-5 in the tiebreak on the Serb's first match point. Jankovic now faces Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova in the third round.

(Writing by Miles Evans, editing by Pritha Sarkar)