Jelena was a true prospect a while back and Bolleteri mentioned her in his book "My Aces, My Faults." She then was involved in a car accident and went to college at Fresno State and graduated this year. She is now playing in some 10K's and just won Fort Worth, Texas (USA) today. She is 19-2 this year so far.
This is a nasty surprise. Jelena shouldn't have problems with this kind of players, even this soon after starting a comeback. Hope she makes up for it soon.
She probably would have won that without the 20 double faults. I seriously don't know how some of these coached professional players can serve as badly as that.
she was really unlucky with draw. first she used her sr and last acp. were 5 ad. WCs. than 3 matches were WCs vs. WCs and she got 1st seed, top 100 player. probably played great match but had bad service day. and if she can get that close to beating top100 player with such serve than we can expect good things in future. too bad for points and used sr, she'll be needing them. but congrats for fight.
Jelena plays LLW in R1 of Vancouver 75k, so there's a chance to revenge that tough loss to her from Grapevine 50k earlier this year. Since that one went into three and that Jelena beat her easily 3 years ago, I'm really hopeful here. In case of a win she'd probably play Razzano, but let's take it one step at a time.