TENNIS in DEPTH.

Top seed Jelena Jankovic was forced to pull out midway through her second-round match in the Banka Koper Slovenia Open in Portoroz due to an ankle injury.

Jankovic was trailing 1-6 6-3 1-0 to qualifier Anastasiya Yakimova of Belarus when she was forced to withdraw, sending Yakimova through to the quarter-finals.

“Rolled my ankle a little,” Serb Jankovic said on her Twitter page. Will be OK, just a little disappointing. I’ll rehab and get ready for San Diego.

Third seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova suffered no such problems as she swept aside Paraguay’s Rossana De Los Rios 6-3 6-0 in just 67 minutes to book her own last-eight place.

In the day’s two other games, Sweden’s Johanna Larsson continued her fine recent form with a 7-5 6-1 win over Maria Elena Camerin of Italy, and Alexandra Panova beat fellow Russian Ksenia Pervak 6-2 7-5.

French 20-year-old Alize Cornet swept aside top seed and defending champion Andrea Petkovic to move into the quarter-finals of the Nurnberger Gasteinladies in Bad Gastein.

Cornet took one hour and 42 minutes to dispose of Germany’s Petkovic with a 6-2 7-5 win and move into the last eight where she will next face local wild-card Patricia Mayr.

Mayr pulled off the second shock of the day with a 6-3 6-4 win over seventh seed Tathiana Garbin. Another Austrian, Yvonne Meusburger, beat Czech Lucie Hradecka 7-5 7-5, while Germany’s Julia Goerges beat Mariya Korytteva of Ukraine 6-2 7-5.

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