Jelena Jankovic’s nightmares continue; Justine Henin defeated her 6-2 6-2 today at the Sony Ericsson Championships in Madrid and is now 9-0 against the Serb.

Henin vs. Jankovic matches I used to consider a rivalry, but if you look at the facts now, you come to conclusion that their encounters have become clearly one-sided. The first five times they faced each other they played three sets, but from then on, Jankovic couldn’t take a set from Henin. On top of that, today in Madrid, in their ninth encounter, Jankovic was just a shadow of a player she can be (she seemed scared, was imprecise, started the match with a double fault, and I thought that she would have lost the match even if there was a third set and she was 5-0 up). Let’s just mention this: Jankovic permitted Henin to take seven consecutive games!

I have one suggestion for Jelena Jankovic. She should say this on a press conference: “I will never ever in my career beat Justine Henin,” and maybe that would put the pressure off her and bring her some good luck. (photo via Getty Images)

Top-seeded Justine Henin claimed an opening round-robin victory at the Sony Ericsson Championships in Madrid defeating seventh-seeded Anna Chakvetadze 6-1 7-6(4).

The Belgian world number one quickly took the first set, in which she had two break points and made use of both. In the second set, both the players made two breaks (note that Chakvetadze realized both of her break points with Henin's double faults). Eventually, there was a tie-break which Henin won 7-4.

By the way, Justine was wearing make-up! That's new.

In Madrid, Justine Henin received a trophy from WTA Tour CEO Larry Scott for the fact that she will finish the 2007 season as the number one player in the world. Justine has achieved this feat last year, as well as in 2003.

Henin is in the Spanish city to defend her Sony Ericsson Championships title. The tournament starts on Tuesday, and the Belgian will first face Russian Anna Chakvetadze.

Top-ranked women’s tennis player Justine Henin is concerned about pollution levels in Beijing, the host city of the 2008 Olympic Games. The Belgian has breathing problems and she fears that high pollution in the Chinese capital might prevent her from taking part in the Olympics.

Because of her asthma, Henin has already withdrawn from one tournament organized in Beijing.

The level of air pollution in Beijing and its possible effects on athletes' health has been one of the biggest issues facing organizers of next year's Olympics. They, however, claim that everything will be fine by the time of the Games.

Henin said that she was hopeful the conditions would improve enough to allow her to take part in the Olympics to defend the gold medal she won in 2004 in Athens.

"It's true that Beijing is going to be tough at the Olympic Games with the problem I have but now it seems that everything is under control which is important because the Olympic Games are a very important goal for me in 2008," she said. (source: Reuters)

Top-seeded Justine Henin beat world No.18 Tatiana Golovin 6-4 6-4 in the Zurich Open final on Sunday to win her ninth title of the year and to take the trophy in Zurich for the second time in her career.

In the opening set, Golovin was the one who broke first to take the 3-1 lead, but she didn’t manage to hold her serve and win the set. Henin broke Golovin two times, in the seventh and ninth game, to take the first set. Read more »