If Jelena is not sure how to handle a crisis, she could well ask her first round opponent at the French Open 2003, Angelika Roesch, how she is hangling her crysis.....

Angelika has won 4 matches in this entire season and 0 since Februrary, though she played 8 tournaments since she beat M. Serna at Antwerp. Together with her second round loss there, she is on a 1-9 loosing streak now, 2-11 since the Australian Open! The only player Angelika could beat in the last 3
months was worlds no 175 Olga Blahatova who reached the main draw at Bol as a lucky looser......

Angelikas recent crysis was, like Jelenas, topped at her last performance, where she lost at the first round of the qualifications to the German Open to world no 95 Zuzana Ondraskova 6-1 and 6-0!

By trying to find out where the 25 year old German earned her points for her current position no 90 of the world i found some funny fact! Angelika did not have one decent tournament last year, too, beside reaching the Quarters of Quebec City, a tier III tournament, and the second round of New Heaven, but she beat Dementieva three times, which gave her enough quality points to reach the top100!

Another strange fact about the 1.72 meters tall girl from the German Capital Berlin is one which actually shows also why Germany is unable to create any top-players anymore: Angelika is actually left handed, but because her first coach did not realize that fact, and told her to hold the racket with her right hand, she does so until today!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I watched the German no 4 once, at Filderstadt last year, and I have actually seen a pretty impressive performance as she beat fellow German Vanessa Henke in straight sets in the second qualifying round and took Lisa Raymond to a third set tie-break what she unfortunately and unnecessaryly lost. Angelika has a pretty powerful serve, but doesnt really have the weapons to take advantage of short or poor returns of her opponents. She just loves her baseline and tries to generate power from behind but has not nearly the precission of our Princess.

Jelena Dokic is 11-12 this year, and for all her 12 losses we found the weirdest excuses. This time there will be no excuse! This time Jelena just has to win! Everything else is impossible! Even for the girl, who makes the most impossible things become true.