Francesca Schiavone, Jelena Jankovic cruise into the third round – US Open 2011
Top ranked Italian and seventh seed Francesca Schiavone cruised into the third round of the 2011 US Open after enjoying a twin breadstick win over Croat Mirjana Lucic in their second round match at Flushing Meadows, New York on
Thursday, 1st September.
Earlier Schiavone had met and defeated Kazakh qualifier Galina Voskoboeva after surviving a mid match lapse in the first round here.
However, her conquest of Lucic was a far more easier affair. Schiavone opened and successfully held her serve in the opening set followed almost immediately by Lucic. However, from there on the ahrd hitting Italian allowed no leeway
to her opponent as she clinched two break point opportunities along with her own successful service games to secure a breadstick win for herself.
Hitting only one ace and five winners with a 92 percent first serve win, Schiavone cashed in on her opponent’s fifteen unforced errors as she went one up in the set score.
Down and definitely out, Lucic put herself on the scoreboard for the last time in the match as she opened serve in the second set. Squandering away three service games to her opponent, the Croat suffered yet another breadstick
loss as she exited the event.
Sailing on her straight sets 6-1, 6-1 win, Schiavone now moves into the third round where she will play either German Mona Barthel or South African Chanelle Scheepers.
Joining Schiavone in the third round is the former world number one, Jelena Jankovic. The Serbian diva, seeded eleventh here, enjoyed her own straight sets victory as she met and defeated Australian Jelena Dokic.
Taking a little close to ninety minutes, Jankovic enjoyed a 6-3, 6-4 win over the unseeded Aussie. Cashing in on Dokic’s costly fifteen double faults, Jankovic added her own four aces and fifteen winners to the count as she converted
six of nine breakpoint opportunities to seal her straight sets victory and ensure her survival at the event.
A runner up here in 2008 against Serena Williams, Jankovic now moves on ahead to play Petra Martic of seventeenth seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the third round.
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