DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Fifth-seeded Belinda Bencic of Switzerland, playing her first week as a top 10 player, was upset 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 by Jelena Jankovic of Serbia in the Dubai Tennis Championships on Tuesday.
The ninth-ranked Bencic, 18, who reached last weekend's final in St. Petersburg, Russia, looked physically exhausted by the end of the 2 hour, 31 minute match against the 20th-ranked Jankovic.
In the 12th game of the second set, Bencic smacked a backhand crosscourt wide on a sixth set point in the game for Jankovic, a former No. 1. Then, in the final game of the match, Bencic netted a backhand at 15-40 to lose the contest.