Since the Birmingham final in mid June, Jelena Jankovic lost openers in five of six tournaments and this week she's fallen from No.18 to No.34 in the rankings, her lowest ranking in six years. Whether that was a wake-up call or not, at the ongoing Texas Tennis Open, the former world No.1 has won three matches in a row and is now in the semifinals. The tournament is not big, but still, the victories count, and in her last match Jankovic defeated Sorana Cirstea 6-2 6-1, to whom she had lost both their previous encounters in three sets.

Next for the second-seeded Jankovic is first-time WTA semifinalist Casey Dellacqua. The other semifinal pair at the Texas Tennis Open is Jankovic's fellow Serbian Bojana Jovanovski vs. third seed Roberta Vinci.

At the New Haven Open, quarterfinals are set and four-time defending champion and third seed Caroline Wozniacki is in there, awaiting sixth seed Dominika Cibulkova, who ended Andrea Petkovic's comeback tournament in the second round. Wozniacki is now on a 19-0 winning streak at New Haven and if she wins the title again she will become just the fourth WTA player ever to win a title five years in a row, joining big names Chris Evert, Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova, who achieved the feat at three different tournaments!

Other New Haven quarterfinal pairs are: Olga Govortsova (the only unseeded player in the final eight) vs. Maria Kirilenko [7], Marion Bartoli [5] vs. Sara Errani [4] and Lucie Safarova [8] vs. Petra Kvitova [2]. (photos: sr_cranks)

"I can't remember last time I had a match like this, maybe not since I was junior," said 11th seed Ana Ivanovic after a 6-0 6-0 loss to Roberta Vinci in the second round of the Rogers Cup. Actually, it's her first double bagel loss since turning professional! The match lasted 44 minutes and the Serbian No.1 earned just three game points, while Vinci faced no break points. The world No.12 Ivanovic won the tournament in 2006.

Serbian No.2 and 13th seed at the Rogers Cup, Jelena Jankovic, followed her compatriot's exit path. There were no bagels, but Jankovic won just five games, 6-2 6-3, against home player Aleksandra Wozniak, against whom she used to be 4-0 in career meetings. The 18th-ranked Jankovic has now lost 12 of her last 16 opening matches.

Also out in the second round were seed No.12 Dominika Cibulkova and seed No.15 Sabine Lisicki, who fell to Varvara Lepchenko and Carla Suarez Navarro respectively.

Second seed Agnieszka Radwanska avoided a second straight loss of an opener, after her first-round defeat at the Olympics, surviving a nail-biter against Mona Barthel, who had a 4-2 lead in the third set, then a match point at 6-5 and again a 4-1 lead in the tiebreak. Radwanska won in the end: 4-6 6-3 7-6(5). (photo: sr_cranks)

Fila has revealed the Olympic collection, containing different outfits for each country: Serbia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Spain, Romania, Italy, Belgium, Slovenia, New Zealand, etc.

Serbian Jelena Jankovic will wear a predominantly red Essenza Dress, with touches of the other two colors from the Serbian flag – blue and white. On the chest, besides the Fila logo, there is Serbian coat-of-arms, while the back features Serbian flag.
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According to our records, about four and a half years ago Jelena Jankovic started building a house of her dreams in San Diego County, more precisely in Rancho Santa Fe, according to Wikipedia "regularly first or second on the list of highest income communities in the United States with at least 1,000 households." Now we have information that the 20,000 foot mansion in the exclusive community is undergoing the finishing touches and the luxury-loving tennis star will soon move in, probably by the end of the year.

The huge house has eight bedrooms, a ten-car garage, gym, pool, tennis court, theater and sauna, probably among other things, and JJ is actually going to enjoy it fully only when she retires, since now she's constantly on the road. However, only in career prize money Jankovic has earned $13,114,142 so far. You have to spend it somewhere and the Serb considers real estate the best investment.

Playing the nearby Mercury Insurance Open, Jankovic had the opportunity to visit the property that's currently mostly managed by her father Veselin. At the tournament JJ is the third seed and in the Thursday's second round she fought off 20 break opportunities to edge Melinda Czink 2-6 6-4 6-4. Her quarterfinal opponent is set to be Chan Jan-yung. (source: Tennis.com, photo: Ralf Reinecke)

More coaching news in the Jelena Jankovic camp. Just two weeks after firing Zeljko Krajan, the 20th-ranked Serb has hired one of her former coaches Diego Ayala to help her out ahead of the US Open. Ayala is currently with JJ in Stanford, where she's No.4 seed and after a first-round bye faces Coco Vandeweghe, and then they will go together to San Diego next week.

World No.15 Dominika Cibulkova, who also used to work with Krajan and ended the collaboration in spring, has now named her hitting partner Peter Miklusicak as her new coach. The Slovakian is also in Stanford, seeded third, and after a bye in the first round she will face qualifier Erika Sema. (source: Tennis.com, photos: © Neal Trousdale)