Jelena Jankovic sails past Carla Suarez Navarro in the opening round – Brisbane International 2012
Sixth seeded Serb, Jelena Jankovic, pounced over the Spaniard, Carla Suarez Navarro, in straight sets at the Brisbane International 2012 on Monday. She jolted down a 6-4, 6-2 victory over the 23-year-old Spaniard to secure
a round of sixteen place at this Australian Open warm-up tournament.
The Belgrade native made a shaky entry in the opening set and lost her serve in the second game to go 2-0 down. However, she made a fitting reply and went on a four games killing spree before Navarro could hold on again.
Jankovic then held her remaining serves and triumph the set with a 6-4 score line.
Jankovic kept her rage mode in the second set and after breaking the Spaniard’s serve twice, she went 4-1 up. Despite losing her serve in the following game, the Serb broke Navarro’s serve again in the following game and
then held her serve to clinch the set at 6-2.
The Serbian number one spilled a number of errors and five double faults in the contest but still finished on the winning side in the end. She also formulated a lower first serve share of 56 percent as compared to the Spaniard’s
60 percent and manifested 22 out of 31 on her first serve. Jankovic bagged 63 total points and smacked three ferocious aces en route to victory.
Former world number one, Jankovic maintained consistency in her game to stomp over the Spaniard, ranked 56th in the WTA Premier Rankings, on their fourth meeting. She not only stayed on course to bid
the title but also extended the lead in the head-to-head series by 4-0 against Navarro.
Next up for the sixth seed is the winner of the match between Czech Klara Zakopalova and Russian qualifier Nina Bratchikova.
Kazakh Galina Voskoboeva will accompany Jankovic in the second round. She crushed a Russian qualifier, Vera Dushevina, with double bagels to reach this spot.
World number 58, Voskoboeva took an hour to dump the qualifier on their seventh meeting. She not only lowered trail in their head-to-head series by 3-4 against the Russian but also inched closer to win this hard court event.
The Kazakh dusted away all five breakpoints she faced and cashed in six out of ten break chances to her advantage.
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