Jelena champion again!

By Pierre Cantin
Date: 7/10/2001

Jelena once again did things in style as she will enter the top 10 after winning her third title of the year. This has to be a very sweet day for Jelena as she once again won pretty easily her match.

Let's talk about her match first. Jelena was able to pull off the 6-3, 6-3 victory in 1h08 as she played better than against Farina-Elia but still was far from her peak.

With 47% of first serve, Jelena will probably not be very happy with the way she served especially as she was broken five times but the difference in the match was that Jelena was able to win fairly easily the other service games while Dementieva was more in a struggle throughout the match with her serve.

Certainly this comes as a very sweet win for Jelena. Other than the four grand slam tournaments, the Tier 1 events are what is the most important and winning a second title certainly confirms Jelena's status as a top 5 threat for next year. Talking about rankings, Jelena's win today gives her a very stylish way to enter the top 10. At the start of the year, Jelena had clearly stated that her objective was to enter the top 10 and she accomplished that objective with still a few chances to improve her ranking before the year ends. In fact, Todd will give more info abotu all of this tomorrow, but surpassing Serena Williams and Monica Seles certainly seems like a very possible thing to do and if she can maintain a #8 ranking going into the Australian Open, it would mean that she would not face a "top player" until the quarterfinals! Certainly something to look forward to!

So congratulations Jelena on a great match, a very well earned victory and a first entry in the top 10, this is just another of many more to come!