Can anyone hold serve?
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- August
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The Jelena Jankovic-Jie Zheng match was not exactly a serving clinic. The players held serve just 10 out of 24 times. A big problem was that neither player could win on their second serves (combined 29 for 76), and yet neither could make a first serve.
It made for some exciting tennis with long rallies, not just service winners. But it was getting a little ridiculous by the end. Jankovic finally held to win 7-5, 7-5, though not before holding off six break points in a game that went to deuce 11 times.
Keep in mind that yesterday Ivo Karlovic had 42 aces and just two double faults — in a straight sets win! That was the second-most in a match since someone started keeping records in 1991 (Richard Krajicek had 49 in the 1999 quarterfinals).
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on Friday, August 29th, 2008 at 3:08 pm by Harold Gutmann.
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