JELENA-DOKIC.com
JELENA CORNER
July 21, 2004
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JELENA-BY-THE-NUMBERS
(0-100)
by Todd Spiker
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0 -- Matches Jelena played for the WTT's Delaware Smash in
2001, after she was drafted by the team coached by Billie
Jean King. Jelena decided not to play World Team Tennis
that year (and, to date, she has never reconsidered).
1 -- Number of ITF singles finals in which Jelena has
appeared (Saga, Japan in 1998, defeated by Alicia Molik)
2 -- Wins over world #1's (Martina Hingis & Kim Clijsters)
3 -- Times played vs. Evie Dominikovic in major junior
finals (Jelena was 1-2)
#4 -- Career-high singles ranking (2002)
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5 -- Career WTA
singles titles (2001 Rome, Tokyo Princess Cup,
Moscow & 2002 Sarasota, Birmingham)
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6 -- WTA doubles finals reached with partner Nadia Petrova
7 -- Most consecutive losses in WTA matches (currently
ongoing)
8 -- Most consecutive wins in WTA matches (3 different
times)
9 -- Losses vs. Lindsay Davenport (0-9)
#10 -- Career-high doubles ranking (2002)
11 -- Fed Cup singles victories (11-2)
12 -- Weeks simultaneously ranked in both singles and
doubles Top 10 (2002)
13 -- Most consecutive sets lost (ongoing)
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#14 -- Seed in
Qualifying tournament for 1999 Wimbledon (Jelena
advanced to QF of main draw), as well as in main
draw of 2001 Rome (which turned out to be Jelena's
first WTA title)
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15 -- Age when won 1999 Hopman Cup for Australia, with Mark
Philippoussis
#16 -- 2001 Roland Garros doubles seed with Conchita
Martinez, when the duo advanced to Jelena's only grand slam
final (they lost to Ruano-Pascual/Suarez)
17 -- Wimbledon singles victories (17-6)
18% -- Percentage of touraments in which Jelena has reached
at least the singles SF in the 133 WTA events she's entered
19 -- Career wins on carpet/Supreme surfaces (19-18)
20% - Career match winning percentage when loses the 1st set
(28-109)
21 -- Career pro doubles SF appearances (10-11)
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#22 -- 2003 US
Open seed when lost 5-1 3rd set lead against Mary
Pierce in 2nd Round. Jelena hasn't won a grand slam
match since.
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23 -- Career grand slam doubles victories (23-14)
24 -- WTA singles semifinals (12-12)
25% -- Winning percentage in WTA singles SF ended by
retirement (1-3)
26 -- Points in career-longest tie-break (Jelena won 14-12
vs. Myriam Casanova at Warsaw 2003)
#27 -- 2003 season-ending doubles ranking
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28 -- 1st Round
singles losses in WTA career (7 have come in 2004)
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29 -- Career green clay matches (18-11)
30% -- 2004 WTA singles winning percentage (6-14), so far
31% -- Percentage of singles games won at grand slams (vs.
Perebiynis & Dulko) in 2004 (11-24)
32 -- Doubles match wins with Nadia Petrova (32-14), twice
as many as with any other partner
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#33 -- What
current #27 Jelena's ranking would be if her
February SF in Tokyo hadn't happened
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34 -- Career wins in the 1Q (34-32)
35 -- Main draw grand slam singles wins (35-20)
36 -- Career singles losses during EuroJelena (66-36)
#37 -- Current ranking of next woman named Jelena (Kostanic)
on WTA computer, after the Fair One
38 -- Total career grand slam (qualifying and main draw)
singles victories (38-20)
39 -- Career WTA singles tie-breaks won (39-30)
40% -- Jelena's career winning percentage vs. Martina Hingis
(2-3)
41 -- Total WTA matches as a #1 or #2 seed in singles
(25-16). Jelena has won two titles and advanced to four
finals as a Top 2 seed.
42% -- Winning percentage in WTA/ITF singles finals (5-7)
#43 -- 1999 year-end singles ranking
#44 -- Standing of Jie Zheng, one of Jelena's 2004
conquerors, on the season's money list. Jelena is #53.
She's been in the Top 13 on the prize money list in each of
the last three seasons.
#45 -- The ranking of Nicole Pratt when Jelena defeated her
earlier this year. Pratt is the highest-ranked player she's
beaten in 2004.
46 -- Career wins on red clay (46-28)
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47 -- Age of
Martina Navratilova, who Jelena missed out on
playing in the 2nd Round of this year's Wimbledon
when she lost to Gisela Dulko. Dulko went on to
defeat Navratilova, too. (Yeah, I know this is a
bit of a stretch, but I have to fill out 101 spaces
here -- just wait till you see #90!)
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48% -- 2003 singles winning percentage (28-30), her worst
over a full season in her career. So far in 2004, she's
won just 30% of the time.
49% -- Percentages of singles games won (64-66) in 1999-00
Hopman Cup competition
50% -- Winning percentage in Tier I singles finals (2-2)
#51 -- 2000 season-ending doubles ranking
52 -- Weeks ranked in singles Top 10 in 2002 (of 52, of
course)
53 -- Career grass matches (38-15)
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#54 -- What
current #27 Jelena's ranking would be if her Zurich
RU hadn't happened last October.
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55% -- Percentage of slam singles games won (681-558)
56 -- Career singles games won at the Australian Open. At
56-65, it's the only slam where Jelena's lost more games
than she's won.
57% -- Percentage of Fed Cup singles games won (186-138)
58 -- Total grand slam singles matches (38-20)
#59 -- Gisela Dulko's ranking when she handed Jelena her
earliest-ever loss at Wimbledon in the 1st Round last month
60kg -- Jelena's current listed weight (132 lbs.) in the
WTA's official Fair One bio
61% -- Official WTA singles winning percentage (214-135)
62% -- Winning percentage on red clay (45-28)
63% -- Career 4Q winning percentage (60-36)
64 -- Combined pro matches on clay (46 red, 18 green)
65 -- Junior circuit singles wins in 1998 (65-9)
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66 -- Months
since JD.com was created by Pierre Cantin in January
1999
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67 -- Games played against Martina Navratilova in doubles
(30-37)
68% -- Percentage of games lost in matches vs. Serena
Williams (23-50)
69 -- Wins in 69 Junior circuit matches when Jelena won the
1st set
70% -- 2001 WTA singles winning percentage (53-23), Jelena's
best in a full season
71% -- Winning percentage (24-10) vs. Russians since Jelena
lost to Elena Dementieva in 2000 Sydney Olympic SF. She's
only 4-6 in 2003-04, though.
72% -- ITF singles winning percentage (19-5)
73% -- Winning percentage in pro matches against Australians
(11-4)
74 -- Games Jelena won in taking the US Open Junior title in
1998 (43-31 in six straight-sets victories)
75% -- Roland Garros doubles winning percentage (9-3), her
best in any slam. She's just 2-1 since being the '01 RU,
though.
76 -- Olympic games won in singles at Sydney 2000 (76-64)
77th -- Kim Clijsters, Jelena's partner in winning the 2002
doubles title in L.A., was the 77th woman to be ranked in
the Top 10 in WTA singles history
78 -- Players ranked in the WTA singles Top 10 before Jelena
became the 79th in October 2001
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#79 -- The
average rank of the players who defeated Jelena in
her last four grand slams (#91-#64-#103-#59)
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'80 -- The year an unranked Billie Jean King defeated world
#1 Martina Navratilova, the only time a player has beaten
the top-ranked player while holding a singles ranking lower
than Jelena's #129 when she upset Martina Hingis at the '99
Wimbledon
81 -- 2001 total singles matches (her most ever in a season)
-- 76 WTA & 5 exhibition matches. Jelena only had 22 in the
first half of 2004.
82 -- Total weeks in singles Top 10 (13 in 2001, 52 in 2002,
17 in 2003)
'83 -- Jelena was born in Osijek, Croatia on April 12
84 -- Maria Elena Camerin defeated Jelena in their first
career meeting earlier this year. Jelena finished 2003 as
#15 in the world, while Camerin was 84 places behind at #99.
85 -- Games won while advancing to the 1998 Roland Garros
Junior singles final (85-63), where she lost to Nadia
Petrova
#86 -- Rank of Alexandra Stevenson when she ended Jelena's
magical Wimbledon run in the QF in 1999
87% -- Junior circuit winning percentage on clay (20-3)
'88 -- Year of Steffi Graf's "Golden Slam." In her WTA bio,
Jelena calls Graf her most admired person in tennis.
89% -- Career winning percentage (181-22) when Jelena wins
the 1st set
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'90 -- The movie
"Pretty Woman" was released in theaters. In her WTA
bio, Jelena lists the film's stars -- Julia Roberts
& Richard Gere -- as two of her favorite actors
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#91 -- Maria Sharapova's ranking when she defeated Jelena in
the 4th Round of the 2003 Wimbledon. A year later,
Sharapova won the title.
92 -- Career Tier I singles matches (55-37)
93% -- Winning percentage in qualifying rounds of ITF
challengers (13-1)
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'94 -- The Dokic
family moved to Australia. Earlier in the year,
Jelena had won the Yugoslavia 12-and-under
championship.
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'95 -- One-time doubles partner Conchita Martinez reached
her career-high singles ranking of #2
'96 -- Jelena won the Australian 16-and-under Grasscourt
Championship
'97 -- Jelena, at 14, made her ITF debut in a challenger
event at Mt.Gambier, Australia
'98 -- Jelena was the #1-ranked junior in the world. At the
slam girls events, she had a W (US), RU (RG) and two SF
(Australian & Wimbledon).
'99 -- Jelena got her first win over a world #1 vs. Martina
Hingis in the 1st Round of Wimbledon... what, you thought
"99" would be something else?
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100% -
Percentage of matches won in WTA events vs. Anna
Kournikova. Surprisingly, they only played once
(2002 San Diego). Their other matches were in
exhibitions (1-1) and Fed Cup (1-0).
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I'm all out of numbers. So... all for now.
