March 2003 Archives

March 31st 2003: Jelena will be in action tomorrow as she will be second up on centre court in a match against Paola Suarez, you can read Gerhard's preview here. On another note, Jelena and Nadja Petrova are the #1 seeds in doubles, they will face Fujiwara and Hopkins in the first round.

March 31st 2003: It is now time for the latest edition of Jelena's Corner by Todd, read it here:)

March 30th 2003: A second preview is in, this time from J.M, you can read it here.

March 30th 2003: You can read Glyn's tournament preview here!

March 30th 2003: The draw for the Sarasota tournament is out and Jelena, the #1 seed, will face Paola Suarez in the first round. You can see the full singles draw here.

March 29th 2003: Well although we do expect the draw for Sarasota to be up today, we posted the Arabic version of Jelena's biography today, many thanks to Leo Ferdenand for sending it over:)

March 28th 2003: I'm sure many of you read Todd's column yesterday and were asking yourself why you can't get even more from him?:) Well, actually you can as today he published the Jelena Awards column:)))

March 27th 2003: It is time for a new edition of Jelena's Corner, read it here:)

March 26th 2003: Gallery #94 with photos from Miami was added.

March 26th 2003: Jelena's Miami tournament ended today as she and Nadja Petrova could not finish off a match they had very well started. But after all, it resulted in a 6-3, 6-7, 6-4 loss to Farina-Elia and Garbin.

March 26th 2003: Time for doubles now:) You can get all th details in this great doubles preview:) Also, you can read Jelena's post-match press conference transcript here.

March 25th 2003: Jelena's single run in Miami ended today as she was defeated 6-2, 6-0 by world #3 Kim Clijsters:( She will now continue her doubles journey with Nadja Petrova.

March 25th 2003: Well Jelena will be playing the eveing match in Miami, she and Kim Clijsters will be on centre court at 7PM local time which is midinight in London and 11AM in Sydney. If you are interested in reading a match preview done for the Kim Clijsters page on Tennisrulz, go here.

March 25th 2003: You can read a report about Jelena and Nadja's good start in doubles here:)

March 24th 2003: Jelena and Nadja had no problems in doubles as they posted a 6-2, 6-1 win over Daniilidou and Stevenson. They will now face Silvia Farina-Elia and Tatiana Poutchek.

March 24th 2003: Some great news as Jelena advanced to the quarterfinals in Miami with a solid 6-4, 6-1 win over Alicia Molik! She will have a very big test next as she will face Kim Clijsters (provided Kim gets through Pistolesi).

March 24th 2003: Time for another preview for Jelena's 4th round match, read Gerhard's article here. That match is scheduled as the second match today on court #2...

March 24th 2003: You can read J.M.'s preview for Jelena's upcoming 4th round match here.

March 23rd 2003: Jelena will play against Alicia Molik in her next match, the 4th round. We will soon have 2 previews for this match but in the meantime you can see the Tennisrulz page here:) Also, Jelena will play her first round in doubles tomorrow, she and Nadja Petrova play the third match on court #7!

March 23rd 2003: Wow, a very impressive win today for Jelena as she defeated Nathalie Dechy 6-3, 6-2 in about one hour! You can see the complete match stats here. She will now face either Elena Likhovtseva or Alicia Molik!

March 23rd 2003: We have a third preview for today's match, find it here. It was written by Nick Vayn who maintains this webpage about Nathalie Dechy.

March 22nd 2003: Well the schedule for tomorrow is out! Jelena will be playing the second match on court #1, so about 1PM EST. You can read a second match preview here.

March 22nd 2003: I just added Gerhard's match preview for Jelena's upcoming match, see it here:)

March 22nd 2003: I added gallery #93 today with a few photos from Paris, the one on the right and also some photos from a Rome photo shoot she did last year with Kim Clijsters and Barbara Schett.

March 21st 2003: Some very good news today as Jelena advanced to the second round with a straight set win against talented young Russia Svetlana Kuznetsova. The occasion is especially good considering, Daniela Hantuchova, who would have been Jelena's 3rd round opponent and who is one spot ahead in the singels rankings, lost today! Next up Jelena will face Nathalie Dechy who is also dangerous but hopefully everything will go well! You can see the match stats here.

March 21st 2003: Today you can read a match preview here and a doubles preview here. Also, for all of you who are interested in joining the chat room during Jelena's match, you can simply follow action on our board in the meantime and you'll know when to jump in:)

March 20th 2003: Jelena will be playing her first match in Miami on Grandstand court. The match is the 5th one on that court (starting at 11AM local time), but will not be playred before 5PM. GO JELENA!

March 19th 2003: A lot of you are big fans of Todd Spiker's articles on Jelena-dokic.com. Well starting today he has a monthly quiz on Tennisrulz!:) You can test your knowledge with the March quiz by going here:)

March 19th 2003: Not much of a surprise to see that Jelena will face Svetlana Kuznetsova in her second round match. Kuznetsova defeated Virginia Ruano-Pascual in straight sets today.

March 19th 2003: You can read Glyn's tournament preview here:)

March 19th 2003: With only days until Jelena's first match, we now have a tournament preview by J.M:) Also, today I updated the top 10 photos as voted by all of you! 4 new photos entered the top 10!

March 18th 2003: Some time ago, Head sent us a detailed review of Jelena's racquet, you can see what they sent us here.Many thanks to Gerhard and to Head for sending out this info.

March 17th 2003: Time for the latest edition of Jelena's Corner, you can read it here:)

March 17th 2003: The draw for this week's tournament in Miami is out! You can see it here. After a first round bye, Jelena will face either Virginia Ruano-Pascual or talented young Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova.

March 16th 2003: Time for the German translation of the biography!:) By the way, Jelena has arrived in Miami already, she trained there yesterday, hitting with Nadja Petrova and getting ready for another very important. The draw is expected to be released tomorrow so we will have more details then:)

March 14th 2003: I got around of translating the biography in French today, you can read it here:)

March 13th 2003: Sadly, Jelena's 2003 Indian Wells tournament ended today with a 6-4, 6-4 loss in the doubles semifinals:(

March 13th 2003: Jelena and Nadja will play their semifinal doubles match today on court 2. The match is the 3rd one and should start at about 2PM local time.

March 12th 2003: Some unbeleivable stuff today as Gerhard wrote an outstanding preview for Jelena and Nadja's next doubles match against Davenport/ Raymond. You can read it here.

March 11th 2003: Great news to start off Jelena and Nadia came back in a superb way after a very slow start. They advanced to the semifinals with a 1-6, 6-2, 6-4 win. Also, some great news as Michael Balesteros has been in Indian Wells and he wrote some comments about her singles and doubles performance that you now read here on Jelena-dokic.com!

March 11th 2003: Jelena and nadja are scheduled to play the 4th match on court no4. Action starts at 10.00 am so their match will start around 3pm local time, thats 6pm in New York, 11pm in London and midnight in Belgrade.

March 9th 2003: You can read an article about Jelena and Nadia's second round win here.

March 8th 2003: Jelena and Nadia Petrova advanced with a 2r win today over Kostaniy and Nagyova, more details soon.

March 7th 2003: Deceiving loss for Jelena today as she succumbed in the second round against #86 Barbara Rittner in three sets of 1-6, 7-5 and 3-6.

March 7th 2003: You can now read a report about yesterday's doubles win here.

March 6th 2003: Nice win for Jelena and Nadia as they won their opening match 7-5, 6-1 to advance to the second round. By the way, Jelena will be playing the second match on centre court tomorrow against Rittner, let's hope it goes well:)

March 6th 2003: You can read a preview of Jelena's upcoming second round match here.

March 5th 2003: Jelena will be playing her doubles match tomorrow as she and Nadia Petrova will face Musgrave and Spears, doubles specialists, go Jelena!:) On another note, Jelena now knows her second round opponent as Barbara Rittner advanced with a 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 win over Maureen Drake to advance.

March 5th 2003: I know you've all been waiting for the articles, so here is the first up, Glyn's tournament preview!:) More to come soon...

March 4th 2003: We have just received the latest edition of Jelena's Corner, click here to read it:)

March 3rd 2003: Jelena is playing in Indian Wells as you all know and the draw was just released. Jelena will face a qualifier or Barbara Rittner in the second round! You can see the full draw here.

March 3rd 2003: No changes in the rankings released today. However, we do have something new for you as the biography now has a Dutch translation that was done by Johan de Groen, read it here!:)

March 2nd 2003: Today, we added an Italian translation of our biography that you can find here. The draw for Indian Wells will be out perhaps tomorrow so be sure to check us out to find out:)

March 1st 2003: Jelena and Daja Bedanova lost their doubles match:( Read about it here.