THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ZURICH, Switzerland -- Jelena Jankovic's 12-match winning streak was snapped Thursday by Flavia Pennetta, who beat the top-ranked Serb 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 in the second round of the Zurich Open.
Jankovic, who won three straight titles heading into the tournament, fell to the ground at 6-5 of the first set and appeared to hurt her left wrist. Still, she broke Pennetta when the Italian double-faulted soon after.
Jankovic again went down while getting broken in the third game of the second set, and she soon called for a trainer to treat her bleeding right knee.
The deciding set went with serve until Pennetta hit a backhand winner to lead 5-3. She had two match points in the next game and took the first of them with an ace.
Jankovic had been 5-0 against the 17th-ranked Pennetta, including a straight-set win in Moscow last week after the Italian had knocked out Venus Williams.
Jankovic, who has never made it past the second round at the Zurich Open, took over the No. 1 ranking this month after consecutive wins in Beijing, Stuttgart, Germany, and Moscow.
Also, 18th-ranked Victoria Azarenka of Belarus routed Monica Niculescu of Romania 6-0, 6-0. Niculescu, who upset seventh-seeded Anna Chakvetadze in the first round, failed to convert any of her six break-point chances.
In a match between two qualifiers, 18-year-old Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic beat Sofia Arvidsson of Sweden 6-2, 6-1.
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