Monday, September 04, 2006

Jelena Jankovic overcame a first - set loss and beat Nicole Vaidisova 5-7 6-3 6-2

Jankovic is taking the role of the tournament's dark horse. I don’t believe too many people that see Jelena next to their name and they’re like, Yes, even though she’s not the player having a tremendous amount of charisma. Actually she plays very solid, with fast and deep flat balls, her serve is good, the footwork is amazing, too.She’s nice and fun to watch.
I followed her 3rd round match against Vaidisova, being certain the winner the winner would have gone even further though in the tournament.
Early on, the match appeared to be a blowout for Jelena, who had raced to a 5-1 lead in 1st set. Nicole Vaidisova wasn’t being able to control her shots, struggling a lot on the court. But From the seventh game on, Nicole turned up the light and won six games in a row taking the set. It was just a brief digression; soon afterwards the things turned around again and returned the same as the beginning. Throughout the rest of the match, Jelena showed to be an incredible shot-maker, strucking the ball early and clearly, helped by an unforced error fest (38 throughout the whole match), to wrap up the match.
Relating to Vaidisova, I discovered how one-dimensional (and irritating) can be her game on bad day: just trying to hit winner on everything she can, no angles, no variations in pace, no dropshots, no net-play. It’s a quite hard-hitting suicide.

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