 When the film premiered in Belgrade on November 12, 2008, it outsold the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace" which opened there that same weekend, bumping the Bond film to second place in the Serbian box office.In speaking about the film, "Politika" made note that full-length theatrically released documentary films about Serbian athletes are rare.They appreciated that "Jelenin svet" celebrated the efforts of one of the best among the best in the world, and that the film was able to document Jelena Janković's rise from third-best to world's best.