Jankovic Bundled out of Open by Bartoli

MELBOURNE, Jan 25 (bdnews7.blogspot.com/Reuters) - Top seed Jelena Jankovic was knocked out of the Australian Open by an inspired Marion Bartoli in the fourth round on Sunday. The Frenchwoman capitalised on the Serbian's shaky serve, blasting winners at every opportunity before ending the world number one's misery 6-1 6-4 in just 82 minutes. The unconventional Bartoli, who despite being right-handed plays two-handed off both sides, had not advanced beyond the Australian Open second round in seven previous attempts. The 16th seed set up a quarter-final against either Nadia Petrova or her fellow Russian Vera Zvonareva. "I was really confident because I played really well my last match against (Lucie) Safarova," the 24-year-old Bartoli told reporters. "I knew I could beat Jelena on a good day, it was just a matter of executing, you know, play the right shot at the right time and don't make too many mistakes. "But I was not overwhelmed by the situation, and I just went for my shot and everything went in today. It was just a great match." DELICATE DROP Bartoli, hitting winners from both sides off the baseline, won the first five games of the match, clinching the first set with a delicate drop push that left Jankovic wafting at thin air. The Serb won just 13 points on her own serve in the first set, but losing the set seemed to wake Jankovic up, although both players struggled with their serve in the second, each breaking the other twice in the first eight games. Bartoli hung tough, however, securing her fifth break of the match and booking her place in the quarter-finals after rifling a backhand cross-court winner past a deflated Jankovic. "It's obviously disappointing. Nobody likes to lose," said Jankovic. "Today was a tough day for me. I let my opponent completely come on top of me and play her game. "I had a slow start. I gave her a lot of confidence throughout the match and then in the second set I also had a lot of opportunities to come back and try to get in the game somehow. "She was the better one, and all the credit. She went for all her shots and hit whatever she could. She knew that she had to do that in order to win and it was her day.