Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Freaking Amazing Jelena


Defeating Dementieva, she improved her career-best Grand Slam performance, reaching SF (as No.19 seed, defeated No.9 seed Vaidisova in 3r, 2004 champion Kuznetsova in 4r, and now just killed No.4 seed Dementieva).
Her last opponent (Lena D.) didn’t lose, she get blasted by the Serbian entire gamut of shots. The scoreboard says it all: 6-2 6-1, in a 62 minutes match. Jelena played awesome - all-court game fun to watch - with impressive backhand accelerations destroyed an awkward Dementieva. Relating to the Russian, that’s what buddie MightyMirza – my fav tennis observer – said: “Lena was just off today. Pathetic performance!! It was completely different Lena from the one I saw against Bepa. Even movement was poor!! Anyways gotta give credit for Janko as well. She did keep ball in play and made Lena move sideways all the time. Which worked well coz Lena always goes one step further after hitting shots. Which takes her more time to recover JJ's BH can be devastating!”. Ya, right. The stunning thing is that Dementieva was playing not that bad leading up to this match. And moreover both players just had a long and very close match in LA final three weeks ago, one of the most exciting matches in the overall season. Lena’s ground game was off in the first set, it was an UE fest with the Russian overhitting nearly every shot. In the second set Lena tried to be more consistent but it wasn’t enough to recover; JJ ran down every ball and choose the right moment to counterattack. Jankovic keeps on amazing all of us, since Wimbledon he lost only to three players: Clijsters (twice, Stanford and Sand Diego), Zvonareva (Cincy) and Dementieva(Los Angeles). If is gonna keep it up she won’t allow either Justine or Lindsay to get any kind of rhythm... A Grand Slam final ? Who knows...As a Serbian journalist said “Jelena is like a Ferrari who is in the garage but then all you need to do is put oil and bring it out on the road so everybody can see it, you know”.

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