Player lands in wrong Carlsbad

Serbian teen tennis player Bojana Jovanovski had two days to forget after she went to Carlsbad, New Mexico, instead of Carlsbad, California, for the WTA San Diego Open.

The 19-year-old Serb, ranked number 53rd in the world, almost missed her Monday first-round match after she was somehow presented with an erroneous ticket to a tiny desert town nearly 1,500 kilometres short of her intended destination.

The confused teenager spent the night in the New Mexico town before taking a flight to California, where she arrived a mere 30 minutes before the start of her delayed match.

Things didn’t improve much for Jovanovski once she finally got to the correct Carlsbad. She lost her first-round match against Roberta Vinci 3-6, 6-4, 6-1.