World No.3 Jelena Jankovic put on the first ever dress made of mobile phones to promote the Sony Ericsson Z750 at the Sony Ericsson Open player party.

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Fourth seed Jelena Jankovic advanced to the fourth round of the Sony Ericsson Open with a 6-2 6-1 victory over often-hard-to-beat Lucie Safarova.

Unlike her compatriot Ana Ivanovic, who cruised into the third round of the Sony Ericsson Open, Jelena Jankovic had to work hard and save five match points. However, on Sunday, in the third round, Ivanovic was dumped out of the tournament by Lindsay Davenport in two quick sets, while Jankovic advanced without problems. You just never know.

Many interesting matches and surprising results took place on Sunday in Miami. (photo via Getty Images)

I didn’t watch this match, but by the description of fellow tennis blogger Diane, I see Jelena Jankovic survived almost a similar challenge in the second round of the Sony Ericsson Open to the one in the Australian Open first round (remember Tamira Paszek's famous first match point against Jankovic?).

At the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, fourth seed Jankovic fought with every cell of her body against Sweden’s Sofie Arvidsson, ranked 63rd in the world. Jankovic was 1-5 in the third set, but broke her opponent twice to get to 5-all. Then it went to 6-all, and Jankovic found herself down 3-6 in the tiebreak. She then saved five match points, and at 9-10, broke Arvidsson, and won the match on her second match point. In the end, the score was 6-7 (7) 6-2 7-6 (9).

Jankovic will next face Czech world No.39 Lucie Safarova, who can be a tough opponent. I still remember their long encounter at last year’s Wimbledon, when Jankovic seemed hopeless, having no idea how to play against Safarova. In the end, however, the Serb won, because Safarova couldn’t keep her rhythm during a match that long.

Reminder: Sofie Arvidsson is having an excellent 2008 season. So far this year she defeated high-ranking players such as Elena Dementieva, Marion Bartoli and Anna Chakvetadze. (photo via Getty Images)

World No.3 Jelena Jankovic owns a house in Miami, but is now in the process of building another one, this time in an upscale neighborhood north of San Diego.

On several occasions Jankovic mentioned how she likes to spend money. She loves expensive clothes, fast cars, as well as her 24-carat Sony Ericsson mobile phone, but now she's investing in something more valuable.

"I think it's worth it to buy, for example, houses or some type of properties where you're always going to have that money. When you buy shoes or bags, who you going to sell that to?" said the 23-year-old Serb.

Even though JJ, who has earned about four million dollars in career prize money, still hasn't seen the property, she saw the architect's plan, and is excited to build a house from her dreams. Read more »

Jelena Jankovic joined Svetlana Kuznetsova, Maria Sharapova and Ana Ivanovic in the last four at the Pacific Life Open when American Lindsay Davenport retired from their quarterfinal because of a back injury.

The 31-year-old Davenport, two times a champion at Indian Wells, summoned her trainer when trailing third-seeded Jankovic 4-1. After losing the first set 6-2, Davenport decided to retire.

"I've gone down this road before and you never know, maybe it'll loosen up," said Davenport. "My back was injured before I came here (to Indian Wells) but it got better and got better.

"Then I woke up this morning and I just couldn't move. It was pretty obvious to me after two games that it was pretty sore out there and pretty hard to rotate."

This year at Indian Wells we’ll have an all-Russian semifinal featuring Kuznetsova and Sharapova, and an all-Serbian semifinal with Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic. Interestingly, all the semifinalists are Top 5 players. (source: Reuters, photo: Getty Images)