Well, THAT took a while.
No. 2 Jelena Jankovic just finished her match with China's Jie Zheng and prevailed, 7-5, 7-5 in a match that took an unorthodox two hours and nine minutes to complete. The last game alone featured 11 deuces and five match points for Jankovic before she sealed the deal.
Nobody could hold serve in this one, which featured 14 breaks out of 24 games. Zheng showed why she can hang with the best of them, showing a tremendous amount of power for her 5-5 frame.
In the first set, Jankovic maintained a break until Zheng evened it up at 4-4. The two produced some exciting rallies for the Arthur Ashe crowd, which filled up as the match progressed. Jankovic won, 7-5, in a statistically even set.
Zheng went up 2-0 in the second set, but that would be the biggest lead for either player the rest of the way. The final game may have been the longest I've ever watched (11 deuces).
In other news, Fernando Gonzalez dismissed American Bobby Reynolds in their second-round match in three sets.
No. 5 Nikolay Davydenko won the first two sets and was taken to a third-set tiebreaker against Agustin Calleri, which he won to advance to the third round.
On one of the outside courts, Tommy Haas has his hands full with Gilles Muller, who is leading 4-1 in the fourth after Hass won the first two sets and Muller took the third in a tiebreak.
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