Word: jelena
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...combination of a pit-bull dog, a young Mike Tyson and an alligator.' RICHARD WILLIAMS, father of Serena Williams, describing his daughter after she defeated Jelena Jankovic for the U.S. Open championship...
...late match, punctuated by swirls of flying nocturnal insects, pitted Yan and Zheng against Russia's Dinara Safina and Kuznetsova in a nearly three-hour battle (6-3, 5-7, 10-8). Safina must have been exhausted: Less than four hours earlier, the Russian had dispensed with Serbia's Jelena Jankovic in an epic women's single's quarter-final...
...women's player in the world, had a slightly tougher ride than most tennis pros. Reared in the war-torn Serbia of the 1990s, Ivanovic has risen from her home country's ashes to become the best in the game, the leader of the unlikely Serbian revolution that includes Jelena Jankovic, the second-ranked woman in the world, and Novak Djokovic, No. 3 on the men's side. At 20, Ivanovic has all the assets of a megastar-in-the-making: looks, power and a healthy dose of humility. And with the sport shaken by the surprise retirement...
...learned that we can play tough against some of the best players from around the world,” Green said. In singles, South Carolina showed the strength that its national ranking conveys by taking five out of six matches from the Crimson. Only Sibilski prevailed over Jelena Rajic in a dominant 6-1, 6-1 victory at No. 4 singles. It was Rajic’s first loss of the season. Of the remaining five matches, only Schnitter managed to steal a set against the Gamecocks in her 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 loss to Natasha Vuckovic...
...Serbia itself. During and after the NATO bombing that ended the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, Serbs became stock villains in Western media: the terrorists plotting mayhem in the first year of the HBO series 24 were Serbs. Now, opines "serbiangirl" in a blog, Ana, Novak and Jelena can show "that the Serbian people are not just terorists [sic] and criminals, we are nice, talented and good people!!!" Just don't call them Croats. With reporting by Dejan Anastasijevic/Belgrade