June 2003 Archives

June 30th 2003: Jelena did say in her last press conference that she would now rest a little and then start training very soon for the hard court season, that should start in Stanford at the end of July.

June 28th 2003: Unfortunately, Jelena's doubles tournament also ended today as she and Nadia lost 6-3, 6-0. By the way, you can read Jelena's post-match interview transcript here.

June 28th 2003: Jelena's singles journey ended today with a loss to the new Wimbledon sensation, Russian Maria Sharapova, a 6-4, 6-4 loss.

June 27th 2003: Things get more serious now as Jelena is one match away from week 2 of Wimbledon. Tomorrow, she will play the first match on court #1 as she will face Maria Sharapova, you can read a preview here. Then, a bit later, she will play doubles on court #3!

June 27th 2003: You can now read a doubles preview for Jelena and Nadia's second round, see it here.

June 26th 2003: Jelena advances to the third round with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Emmanuelle Gagliardi ! She should have an impressive third round match, as she will face Maria Sharapova ! You can read about Jelena's match from Glyn who was there, see it here.

June 25th 2003: Good news, Jelena and Nadia won their doubles match 6-2, 6-1 and will now face Vento-Kabachi and Widjaja. As for singles, Jelena will be playing the third match on court #4, see the preview here.

June 24th 2003: Great news as Jelena was able to advance to the second round in Wimbledon with a 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 win over Elena Baltacha. She seemed pretty happy with her performance as you can see in her post-match comments here. Also, our own Glyn James was at Jelena's match and sent his comments that you can read here. Jelena will now play her second match Thursday as she will face Emanuelle Gagliardi. And finally, Jelena and Nadia are scheduled to play their first round in doubles tomorrow, on court #19 (the fourth match).

June 24th 2003: We now also have a doubles preview:) See it here!

June 23rd 2003: Well you can expect a crowd tomorrow as Jelena will be playing the opening match on court #13 in Wimbledon, go Jela!

June 23rd 2003: By the way, Jelena and Nadia Petrova are back together in Wimbledon as the #6 seeds. They will face Ashley Harkleroad and Tatiana Perebiynis in the first round.

June 22nd 2003: Jelena will be playing her first round match on Tuesday but you can already read a match preview by Gerhard here.

June 21st 2003: It's time for Glyn's article about Wimbledon, you can read it here:) By the way, you can read Todd's Wimbledon preview on Tennisrulz here, and if you wonder what he is talking about at the end, well I did the Tennisrulz quiz this month, you can see it here. I will also publish my preview tomorrow. If you wish to write your own Wimbledon Preview, simply send it to pierre_cantin@hotmail.com and provided minimal quality, I will publish it:)

June 20th 2003: Not expecting much, not getting anything - that is the title of the latest edition of "Jelena's Corner" by Todd Spiker, see it here.

June 19th 2003: I added more photos taken by Lali in Paris here.

June 17th 2003: The draw for Wimbledon was released today, you can see it here. Jelena will face Elena Baltacha in the first round.

June 17th 2003: Shocking loss once again as Jelena lost 6-3, 6-1 against qualifier Saori Obata... On a more positive note, Jelena did finally decide to fire coach Heinz Günthardt and replaced him with Croatian Coach Barna Bikic, surely a good move considering Jelena has had the worse season of her career so far...

June 16th 2003: You can now read Gerhard's preview for Jelena's match against Saori Obata here. Also, you can see 10 new photos of Jelena in gallery #103.

June 15th 2003: Time to read all you need to know about Eastbourne, read Glyn's article here.

June 15th 2003: Time for the latest edition of Jelena's corner as Todd talks about a new hope with the grass season about to start!:) Read it here.

June 14th 2003: The draw for Eastbourne was released today and Jelena, the #6 seed will face a qualifier in the first round, see the full draw here.

June 13th 2003: This is not related to Jelena but Gerhard, our staff coordinator, made an interesting interview with a German player, Irina Delitz, you can read it here.

June 12th 2003: Wow, sad news as Jelena was defeated 7-6 (4), 6-2 today by Paola Suarez in the third round:(
 

June 11th 2003: Congratulations to Jelena who did not have things easy but still managed to post a 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 win over Rita Grande in her 2nd round match in Vienna!:) She will now face Paola Suarez, read the preview here.

June 11th 2003: Sorry about that, I had forgot to put up the link to Gerhard's match preview, see it here!

June 10th 2003: Jelena will be playing the fourth match on centre court tomorrow in Vienna:) Let's hope it goes well!

June 9th 2003: Not much of a surprise to see that Rita Grande will be Jelena's second round opponent, the match should be played Wednesday.

June 8th 2003: As Jelena prepares for her journey in Vienna, you can read all about the tournament here.

June 7th 2003: You can read a new edition of "Jelena's Corner" here:)

June 7th 2003: The draw for the tournament in Vienna is out, you can see it here:)

June 6th 2003: It is confirmed, Jelena is set to play in Vienna next week, you can read about in an article translated by Gerhard (from a Vienna based newspaper)

June 5th 2003: No confirmations right now but it seems that Jelena will not try to defend her title in Birmingham next week and instead play in Vienna... more details soon!

June 4th 2003: You can see 10 new photos of Jelena in gallery #102:)

June 3rd 2003: The Australian Open tournament director said he was confident that Jelena would play the event in 2004, read more about it here.

June 3rd 2003: Worried about Jelena's tennis? So are many others... You can read some of Jelena's impressions about it here.

June 2nd 2003: Jelena's 2003 French Open is over as she and Nadia lost 7-6, 6-4 today in Paris:(

June 2nd 2003: Jelena is set to play her doubles match against Hursaorva and Schett today. They play the third match on court #2!

June 1st 2003: You can now read a preview for Jelena's third round doubles match here.