No. 3 Jankovic holds on to avoid upset

Facing match points, and with her serve letting her down, third-seeded Jelena Jankovic asked for some divine help to get her through her first-round match of the Australian Open. "I was praying, 'please God, help me get out of this situation,"' she said after a grueling win over Austrian teenager Tamira Paszek on Monday. "I didn't want to go home, and that was what was driving me, what was pushing me to go forward. [link]