Magui Serna from Spain is Jelenas second opponent at Poland. The 24 year old girl from the Spanish island Gran Canaria is currently no 40 of the world, but in the race to Championships, where only results from 2003 count, Magui leads Jelena by 6 spots, as she is currently no 23 whereas Jelena claims position no 29.

And though Jelena is the clear favourite for that match, as well as she was yesterday vs. Casanova, her opponents could not be more different.

Whilst Casanova had played only 9 matches in 2003, and faced 5 times top 10 players (and was 0-5 against them), Magui Serna played 27 matches this year she only faced two times a top 10 player (Mauresmo, twice, and she lost both matches) and only once a player ranked between 11 and 20 (Shaughnessy, and Magui lost again)!

But Magui Serna is on an excellent winning streak, having won the titles no 2 and 3 of her career at the last two tournaments she entered (Estoril and Budapest), and reaching the third round here at Warsaw, beating Iveta Benasova and Sandra Kleinova, both in three sets! In fact, Magui is on a
12-0 winning streak now!!!!!!!! Pretty impressive, though the highest ranked player of those 12 was Alicia Molik, the current no 47 of the world.

Actually i thought Serna was a clay-court specialist but she is as much of an allrounder as our Princess. Three times in her career she reached the fouth round of a Grand Slam tournament, and non of those successes happend at clay, and also her biggest success at the most important tournaments, reaching the Quarterfinal, did not happen at Roland Garros but at Wimbledon in 2000 where she lost to a young godness named Jelena Dokic!

Further they played at Cairo in 1999 where Jelena smashed the 1.67 meters tall girl from Las Palmas 6-1 and 6-0 and at Toronto in 2001 where Jelena won 6-1 and 6-4. And so Jelena leads Magui 3-0, 6-0 in sets, and though Magui seems to have the form of her life, the series should be 4-0 and 8-0 tomorrow afternoon!

The match will be played on center court at noon local time, which is 3am at Los Angeles, 6am at Washington DC, 11am at London, noon at Belgrade and 8pm at Sydney. 
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Gerhard
www.jelena-dokic.com