Jelena Jankovic again showed her increasing pedigree on the womens tennis circuit with a battling 3 set win over Venus Williams in the 3rd round of the French Open in Paris on Friday. Jankovic has had an excellent start to the year which has seen her move into the worlds top 5 for the first time and a mixture of baseline winners and errors from her opponent allowed Jankovic to set up a 4th round clash with home country favourite Marion Bartoli, a match which she surely will start favuorite for. Jankovic along with Novak Djorkovic and Ana Ivanovic is continuing to put put Serbian tennis firmly on the map. Bartoli herself had an execellent straight sets win over the 13th seed Elena Dementieva. Former finalist Dementieva could not cope with Bartoli's fierce return of serve and made too many unforced errors to beable to be competitive in the match, struggling especially on her own service games. Saturday sees the completion of the womens and mens 3rd round draws and hopefully the rain will stay away so the french crowd can cheer on Amelie Mauresmo. The former world number one hasnt been playing particularly well on the red clay this season and has been upset by outsiders such as Annable Medina Garrigues of Spain and Ukranian Julia Vakulenko in recent weeks. Mauresmo has a very tough match against rising Czech star Ludmila Safarova. The youngster who reached the quarters of the Australian open earlier in year will surely fancy her chances against a player who has been known to choke with the pressures of her home crowd support.
More news on Saturday with all the results and comments from day 7 at Roland Garros.
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