WTA Tour - Jankovic a doubt for Sydney

Eurosport - Mon, 08 Dec 10:10:00 2008

World number one Jelena Jankovic is doubtful for the Sydney International tournament despite earlier confirming her entry.

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The 23-year-old Serb is still finalising her schedule for the early part of 2009 and has withdrawn from the official acceptance list, tournament director Craig Watson said in a statement.

"Players often end up re-arranging their schedules a number of times and Jelena has not finalised her plans for 2009 yet," Watson said, adding that she could still seek a wildcard into the January 11-17 event.

Although bothered by a series of niggling injuries throughout the year, Jankovic won four titles and reached her first grand slam final at the US Open before losing to Serena Williams.

Jankovic has played in the Sydney tournament four times with her best performance being runner-up to Belgian Kim Clijsters in 2007.

The Sydney event is one of the traditional warm-up tournaments for the Australian Open, the year's first grand slam, which runs from January 19-February 1.

Reuters

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  1. Perheps you can learn her some :-)

    From Igor K, on Fri 12 Dec 8:30PM

  2. PERHAPS SHE HAS TIME TO LEARN SOME ON COURT­ ETTIQUETTE ., ?

    From iigor_k, on Fri 12 Dec 2:39AM

  3. perhaps maybe the Aussie tournament will be spared the ­ unruly hoards of snarling abusive spectators

    From kontrol.climate, on Sat 6 Dec 10:05PM

  4. Jankovic maybe a doubt for Sydney but he does have a­ lot of girls to choose from

    From Nicholas, on Fri 5 Dec 6:21AM

  5. so it's not all bad news for Australia then .,! !

    From fototedlondona4, on Thu 4 Dec 5:15PM

  6. OH DEAR COULD JJ BE INJURED OR JUST GOING TO START HER­ NEW YEAR AT THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN.
    ALL THE BEST ANYWAY JJ­ LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU NEXT YEAR.
    ALISON.

    From AJ, on Wed 3 Dec 9:05PM
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