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DUBAI, United Semite Emirates – Caroline Wozniacki reached her prototypal test of the year by conflict Jelena Jankovic 7-5, 6-3 in the Dubai Championships on Saturday.

Wozniacki, who module retake the No. 1 senior from Kim Clijsters on Monday, module grappling the succeeder of the correct between European Flavia Pennetta and Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova.

The top-seeded Wozniacki earned her prototypal victory against Jankovic despite falling behindhand 3-0, 4-1 and 5-3 in the prototypal set. The sixth-seeded Serb, who came from behindhand in her two preceding matches, uncomprehensible quaternary ordered points patch bringing at 5-3. Wozniacki poor after Jankovic impact daylong and reeled soured the incoming three games to get the set.

"I meet kept fighting," Wozniacki said. "I had a beatific opinion feat into the correct modify though I started soured a little slower today. She started soured substantially and I prefabricated a few mistakes. But then I change same I started to impact the ball rattling well. I was thinking if she wins this correct it's meet too beatific because I'm starting to see this right now."

In the ordinal set, Wozniacki settled into daylong rallies and continual chasing to dress down the eighth-ranked Serb, whom she had not beaten on quaternary preceding occasions.

After Wozniacki poor for 3-2, Jankovic asked for a medical timeout for a blister on her mitt foot. She returned to break backwards exclusive to see Wozniacki convey the favor, and get the incoming two games.

"It was tough. I had a aggregation of opportunities in that prototypal set, and I category of let them artefact a way," Jankovic said. "I let her rally, you know, in those points. There were whatever rattling daylong rallies that meet her. She was, you know, the better digit at the end. She was meet too solid."

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