photo: Internazionali BNL d'Italia

One day after defeating unseeded American Bethanie Mattek-Sands in 3 sets, Jelena destroyed 11th-seeded Belgian Yanina Wickmayer in straight sets, 6:2, 6:0 after just 59 minutes of playing.

This was the first meeting between these two players. From the beginning Jelena showed great consistency, great serves and the most important wonderful backhands-down-the-line which she used in most of the points. Jelena served out 6 aces and only one double fault, giving the opponent only one break point in the whole match, but Jelena's serve was never broken. On the other side, Jelena broke Wickmayer's serve 5 times.
Jelena's shots were deep, almost every near the baseline, and she was moving really well.

By winning this match Jelena defended points from the last season and will play against Venus Williams in the quarters. Jelena lost only one match to Venus on clay, and JJ will be absolutely favourite in that match tomorrow.