Elena Vesnina

NEW YORK - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic is out of the US Open after a 6-1, 6-4 defeat to Carla Suarez Navarro in the second round of the tournament.

Navarro won after just over an hour of play and is now 4-4 head-to-head against Jankovic.

The Spaniard will next face Elena Vesnina of Russia.

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Bulgaria's top female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova won in the first round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship on Sunday.

Pironkova defeated the Czech Klara Koukalova with 6:3, 4:6, 6:3 in a game that lasted just over two hours, daily Dnevnik reports.

The Bulgarian recorded a fifth victory in seven encounters with her Czech opponent

Romanian tennis player Irina Begu qualified, as a first, in the third round of the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, on Wednesday, in Melbourne, after defeating Katerina Siniakova (the Czech Republic), by 7-5, 6-4.

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