Shock exit for Jankovic
Serbia's Jelena Jankovic, top seed of the joint WTA and ATP Kremlin Cup tournament, crashed out of the event following a straight-set defeat at the hands of Kazakhstan's qualifier Zarina Diyas here Thursday.
The Kazakh teenager won 6-1, 6-2 in 59 minutes in her first ever meeting with Jankovic, 2008 champion here.
Jankovic, who is currently seventh in the world, looked completely unfocused from the start allowing her unheralded rival, 268th in the WTA rankings, to break twice in the opening set for a commanding 5-0 lead.
The Serbian 25-year-old asked for a medical break complaining of shortage of breath but managed to return -- though she conceded the first set in 31 minutes.
The pair traded early breaks in the second set but Diyaz, 17, was still looking more swift acting with more precision to seal her passage into the last eight.
In her match for a place in the semifinals Diyaz will face Russia's Maria Kirilenko, who outclassed 6-0, 6-0 Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine in 50 minutes.
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