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Vera Zvonareva brought Jelena Jankovic's winning run in Doha to an abrupt halt. Photograph: Noushad Thekkayil/EPA If Jelena Jankovic can stay in one piece, she may yet win the first major title she so craves. Injuries have repeatedly derailed the talented Serb's attempts to land one of tennis' major prizes: at the Australian Open in January she suffered a thigh injury, while in Paris it was her arm and at Wimbledon her knee. Tellingly, though, an injury-free run at the US Open brought a first grand slam final and, until this afternoon, her bid to win the season-ending WTA Championships in Doha - played out, inevitably, amid fresh injury concerns after she picked up a back niggle yesterday - was comfortably on course. For half an hour it remained so, as a thankfully injury-free Jankovic cruised to what looked destined to be a... [read full story]
