{"id":2537,"date":"2016-06-09T17:54:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T15:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ricoh-open.nl\/en\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2024-03-21T13:18:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:18:54","slug":"rodina-surprises-with-victory-jankovic-rosmalen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2016\/06\/09\/rodina-surprises-with-victory-jankovic-rosmalen\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodina surprises with victory over Jankovic in Rosmalen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evgeniya Rodina has surprised everyone\u00a0 at the Ricoh Open. The global No. 120 defeated second seed and former finalist Jelena Jankovic (WTA-24) in three sets, 6-7(2), 6-1, 6-4. The latter had been leading their head to head encounters, 3-0.<\/p><p>After Jankovic had to overcome ????break chances in her first two service games, Rodina took the lead at 2-2 when her opponent missed a forehand. But the Russian could not enjoy her advantage for very long as Jankovic broke back on love.<\/p><p>Both women often went for low winners along the line and kept apace with each other to reach a tiebreak. At 2-2 Rodina missed two forehands\u00a0 and then mishit a backhand, after which Jankovic served out for the set from 5-2 with two strong second services.<\/p><p>Rodina did not make any unnecessary faults in the second set and Jankovic seemed to have difficulty moving. At 5-5 in the opening set the Serbian had fallen and took some time to get up.<\/p><p>The former world number one had no say in the second set and the women had to play a decisive third set.<\/p><p>They progressed evenly until 3-3. Jankovic had three chances to make it 4-3 on her own service, but was broken after a missed backhand. At 5-4 Rodina made the surprise complete by serving out the match on her third match point after Jankovic sent a forehand down the doubles alley.<\/p><p>To reach the semi-final Rodina has to beat the American player CoCo Vandeweghe (WTA-43), the sixth seed and 2014 winner.<\/p><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UvDKx0E_-do\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evgeniya Rodina has surprised everyone\u00a0 at the Ricoh Open. The global No. 120 defeated second seed and former finalist Jelena Jankovic (WTA-24) in three sets, 6-7(2), 6-1, 6-4. The latter had been leading their head to head encounters, 3-0.After Jankovic had to overcome ????break chances in her first two service games, Rodina took the lead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2611,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions\/2611\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2526\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}