Friday, 10 April 2009

Jankovic outlasts suprise Vinci

Jelena Jankovic, the number two seed from Serbia continued her wining streak in Marbella as she defeated the suprise of the week Roberta Vinci from Italy. Jankovic started well the match as she held her two service games. But then the slice of Vinci`s backhand prooved to spiny for Jelena as she lost the first set 3:6. However the second set was all the way around as Jankovic reduced her unforced errors and started to play much better meanwile the italian`s game fell dramaticly down and she made 5 errors more than Jankovic but much more less winners.The third set was a real drama as Jankovic led 2:0. Then Vinci had some break points but didn`t convert then and Jelena lead 3:1. However Vinci came back and pushed things into an interesting tiebreak in the third set for the crowd. In it Jankovic was making always one minibreak but lost it on her service game. After she missed a match point already in the tiebreak she won Vinci`s service point at 7:6. Jankovic continues to the semifinals with a win 3:6 6:3 7:6(6) where she will meet the number four seed Anabel Medina Garrigues from spain who defeated Sara Errani again in 3 sets 6:2 6:7(4) 7:5.

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