Dubai, February 17 Fifth-seeded Belinda Bencic of Switzerland, playing her first week as a top 10 player, was upset 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 by Jelena Jankovic of Serbia in the Dubai Tennis Championships on Tuesday. The ninth-ranked Bencic, 18, who reached last weekend’s final in St Petersburg, Russia, looked physically exhausted by the end of the 2 hour, 31 minute match against the 20th-ranked Jankovic. “It wasn’t easy being in St Petersburg over the weekend and then in Dubai since yesterday, but that’s part of being a professional tennis player and it’s something that we all have to cope with,” Bencic …read more
Source: The Himalayan Times
