Friends looks like this season well tough for all tennis player starting with Jelena Jankovic who was given the run around by Sweden's Sofia Arvidsson before she booked her place in the third round with a nerve-jangling 6-3, 6-7, 7-5 win at the US Open on Wednesday.
The second-seeded Serbian twice served for the match in the second set and had also opened a 3-0 lead in the tiebreak but each time Arvidsson pegged her back with a series of stinging ground-strokes.
The world number 63 fell 3-0 behind in the decider before threatening to launch another comeback after Jankovic gifted her the break in the seventh game with a double fault.
But Jankovic kept her wits about her to seal victory when Arvidsson shoved a backhand long on match point. She will next face either Wimbledon semi-finalist Zheng Jie or Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues.
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