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Serena Williams #3 def. Jelena Jankovic #2

6-4 7-5

Match Information

Date	Sep 7, 2008*
Tournament	US Open
Category	Grand Slam
Surface	Hard
Round	F
Winner	Serena Williams
Score	6-4 7-5
Loser	Jelena Jankovic

Stat	Serena Williams	Jelena Jankovic
Aces	3	3
Double faults	3	4
First serve %	62	68
First serve points won %	60	54
Second serve points won %	54	43
Break points saved %	62	69
Break points converted %	31	38
Service points won %	58	51
Return points won %	49	42
Total points won %	53	47

Pre-match Comparison

Field	Serena Williams	Jelena Jankovic
Country	USA	SRB
Birth date	Sep 26, 1981	Feb 28, 1985
Age	26	23
Height	175	177
Handedness	Right-Handed	Right-Handed
Backhand style	Two-Handed Backhand	Two-Handed Backhand
Ranking (entering)	3	2
Ranking points (entering)	3,341	3,515
Elo (entering)	2,127	2,057
Career W-L	825–170	547–332
Career earnings	$94,932,862	$19,089,259

Pre-match H2H

Serena Williams 3 – 3 Jelena Jankovic

Path

Serena Williams's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 6, 2008	SF	Dinara Safina	6-3 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 4, 2008	QF	Venus Williams	7-6(6) 7-6(7)	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 2, 2008	R16	Severine Beltrame	6-2 6-2	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 31, 2008	R32	Ai Sugiyama	6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 28, 2008	R64	Elena Vesnina	6-1 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 27, 2008	R128	Kateryna Volodko	6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data

Serena Williams's next match

No later same-event match found for the winner.

Jelena Jankovic's path

Date	Round	Opponent	Score	W/L	H2H	Match data
Sep 6, 2008	SF	Elena Dementieva	6-4 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 4, 2008	QF	Sybille Bammer	6-1 6-4	W	H2H	Match data
Sep 2, 2008	R16	Caroline Wozniacki	3-6 6-2 6-1	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 31, 2008	R32	Jie Zheng	7-5 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 28, 2008	R64	Sofia Arvidsson	6-3 6-7(5) 7-5	W	H2H	Match data
Aug 27, 2008	R128	Coco Vandeweghe	6-3 6-1	W	H2H	Match data