Jelena Janković

GUANGZHOU - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic is through to the quarter-finals of the Guangzhou tennis tournament after Sweden's Rebecca Peterson retired from their Round 2 match on Wednesday.

Second-seeded Jankovic, who was leading 6-1, 1-0, will next play Sabine Lisicki of Germany, who beat Shuai Peng of China 6-4, 6-1.

The prize money in Guangzhou is 250,000 dollars.

GUANGZHOU - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic has got off to a successful start of her Asian tour by beating Xiaodi You of China 6-2, 6-1 in the opening round of the Guangzhou WTA tennis tournament on Tuesday.

Second-seeded Jankovic will next face Rebecca Peterson of Sweden.

The prize money in Guangzhou is 250,000 dollars.

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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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PARIS - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic was kicked out of Roland Garros in the first round by world number 111, Germany's Tatjana Maria, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 on Tuesday.
    
It took the German 145 minutes to defeat the Serb and level their head-to-head to 1-1.
    
Maria will next play Frenchwoman Alize Cornet.
    

PARIS - Serbia's Novak Djokovic, the current world number one in men's tennis, was on Friday drawn to play Yen-Hsun Lu of Chinese Taipei in the Roland Garros opener.

Djokovic could face arch-rival Rafael Nadal of Spain in the semi-finals.

MADRID - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic was ousted in the opening round of the Madrid Open by Romania's Sorana Cirstea 6-4, 6-3 on Sunday.
    
World number 131 Cirstea will next play Montenegro's Danka Kovinic.
    
The total prize money for the tournament in Madrid is USD 4,771,360

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Serbia's Jelena Jankovic outpowered Angelique Kerber of Germany to take the Hong Kong Open title 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-1 on Sunday.

Jankovic lost the first set and was down 6-5 in the second before rallying to beat Kerber.

Bulgaria's second-highest ranking female tennis player Sesil Karatancheva proceeded to the second round of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) tournament, which is taking place in Sobota/Rokietnica in Poland.

Karatancheva defeated the representative of the hosts Katarzyna Piter with 6:2, 7:5.

Three of top 25 players are in action this week, as the tour heads to another pair of international events, starting with the TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Cup in Istanbul on July 20. 

Some of the world's top tennis professional will compete in Turkey next month in the TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Cup.

According to organizers, 13 players ranked in the first 50 places by the Women's Tennis Association will compete in Istanbul between July 20 and 26.