“She asked me to hit a couple of balls with her,” Jankovic said of her protege. “I said, ‘You’re so talented, You’re so cute,’ and she was so excited. Then she went to hit the ball and she like swung at the ball and fell over. She tripped and she was on the ground. She was so funny. So I remember that.”
Kovinic remembers that day well, although a different memory sticks out to her. “I wanted badly to win a point against her,” she said. “I lost one, and almost start to crying, and then she said, ‘Okay, come on we play one more.’ Then I was so happy that I win the next point because she make ‘mistake.'”