Jankovic Wins in Three, Roger and Lleyton to Meet

I left off something very important from yesterday’s post about the fall of a very short-term Goliath. Slacker of the Day awards for Thursday go to Ana Ivanovic. Obviously. But it still had to be said, ya know?

Jelena Jankovic just survived a three-set scare from Caroline Wozniacki. The Serb dropped the first set 2-6 but bounced back at 6-4 in the second and closed it out with a dominating 6-2 deciding set. Bet she was wishing the could have pulled some of that out in the first, huh?

I didn’t get around to talking about the men yesterday for some oddly weird reason. I was so sidetracked by Ana’s demise that I forgot. So…Lleyton Hewitt. He’s really playing well. How long that is going to last against Roger Federer in the fourth round, I don’t know, but at least the Aussie is putting together a nice little run at Wimbledon. In this crazy tournament, I think anything could happen. Roger holds a 13-7 advantage over Hewitt but remember a couple rounds ago when Marat Safin – yes, that Marat – beat third-ranked Novak Djokovic? Speaking of Marat, he knocked off another seeded player, taking Andreas Seppi in four sets to move on to the fourth round to face Stanislas Wawrinka.

No big upsets thus far today, so I’ll have to return later to bestow Slacker of the Day honors. Maybe Nicolas Kiefer will take out Rafa.