Woo! Jelena Jankovic demolished Venus Williams 6-0, 6-1 in the quarters yesterday and today outlasted Serena Williams 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5). I didn't see yesterday's match but I watched today's match live on Tennis channel and it was clearly a case of Serena losing the match, not Jankovic winning it. Serena was up 2-0 and 0-40 on Jankovic's serve when she inexplicably hit 4 unforced errors to let Jankovic back in to the match. Serena was able to break Jankovic seemingly at will and served for the match twice, at 5-4 and 6-5, blowing a match point when her Jankovic's mishit service return bounced in the court. Even in the tiebreak Serena was up 5-2 when and 5-3 when she hit a sitter overhead directly at Jankovic who got it back and turned defense into offense. The match ended with another four consecutive unforced errors from Serena.Surprisingly, Jankovic will not face her resurgent countrywoman Ana Ivanovic in the final, since Ivanovic finally lost (to the infamous Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez) 6-4 6-2 after having good wins over Elena Dementieva and Victoria Azarenka.
Jankovic becomes the seventh player to beat both Williams sisters in a tournament.
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