Jankovic Shows Soul in Win at WTA Seoul


Posted on September 29, 2005

Top-seeded Serb Jelena Jankovic turned back a stern opening-set test Wednesday from Meghann Shaughnessy, edging the American 7-6(2), 6-2 to advance into the quarterfinals at the WTA stop in Seoul.

Other seeded winners were (3) Tatiana Golovin (d. (LL) Gallovits 6-1 in the third), and (6) Vera Douchevina (d. Nakamura).

Unseeded Aussie Nicole Pratt survived a three-set encounter with Korean wildcard So-Jung Kim, advancing into the second round.

Lining up Thursday in Seoul are Castano vs. Dulko, Morigami vs. Vaidisova, Muller vs. Sugiyama, Golovin vs. Diaz-Oliva, Bartoli vs. Obata, and Granville vs. Pratt.
Rankings
ATP - Feb 06 WTA - Feb 06
1 Novak Djokovic1 Victoria Azarenka
2 Rafael Nadal2 Petra Kvitova
3 Roger Federer3 Maria Sharapova
4 Andy Murray4 Caroline Wozniacki
5 David Ferrer5 Samantha Stosur
6 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga6 Agnieszka Radwanska
7 Tomas Berdych7 Marion Bartoli
8 Mardy Fish8 Vera Zvonareva
9 Janko Tipsarevic9 Na Li
10 Juan Martin Del Potro10 Andrea Petkovic
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