Ennis feels world cave in despite indoor best Another World Championship multi-events denouement; another dose of disappointment for Jessica Ennis to digest. At the conclusion of the ultimate discipline in the heptathlon at the outdoor World Championships in Daegu last August, the 800m, anguish was writ large upon the face of Sheffield's finest as she relinquished one global crown to Tatyana Chernova of Russia. Yesterday the pained expression was cruelly delayed in the aftermath of another 800m race, the fifth and final event of the pentathlon on the opening day of the World Indoor Championships here in Istanbul. Ennis crossed the line in first place and in a state of exhaustion and then broke into a beaming smile, holding her arms aloft in celebration as the scoreboard flashed up: 1 J Ennis GBR 4,965 CR. She had amassed 4,965 points, breaking the championship record she set in Doha two years ago. However, the computer had yet to feed in the 800m result of Nataliya Dobrynska. The Ukrainian had crossed the line third in the final event but done enough not just to relieve Ennis of a second global title in seven months but also to break Irina Belova's 20-year-old world record score of 4,991 points. The Briton smiled ruefully as the scoreboard confirmed Dobrynska's victory with a tally of 5,013 points - before embracing the new champion and embarking on the lap of honour that traditionally follows multi-events competitions. As she did so, Ennis - and indeed her coach, Toni Minichiello, standing watching at track side - will have been lamenting another world title that got away. Dobrynska might have risen to the occasion with a timely reproduction of the form that took her to a surprise Olympic heptathlon gold in Beijing four years ago, but - as in Daegu - Ennis paid the price for some below-par performances. In South Korea she wobbled in the hurdles and the high jump and messed up in the javelin. Here in Turkey she messed up in both the high jump and the javelin, leaving herself with another silver-medal lining five months from the Olympic heptathlon in London. "I'm absolutely gutted," Ennis said, "but at the same time I'm pleased with a personal best and a national record, so I can't grumble too much. Next week I am going to take a bit of a break, then get back into it and work on what I can do to come back stronger in the summer. I need to make sure I learn from these experiences, get it right and turn silver into gold this summer. Ennis could hardly have got off to a better start in what had been expected to be another head-to-head for the gold with Chernova, winning the 60m hurdles in 7.91sec - her second-fastest time - and taking a lead of 86 points. She proceeded to falter in the high jump, only managing a clearance of 1.87m, 8cm down on her British outdoor record height. The South Yorkshirewoman rallied with a lifetime best of 14.79m in the shot but then flagged again with a disappointing 6.19m long jump, dropping down to third place in the standings, behind Dobrynska, who jumped 6.57m, and the Lithuanian Austra Skujyte. That left Ennis needing to finish 6.48sec clear of Dobrynska in the 800m. Roared on by a sizeable contingent of British fans, she won the race in 2min 8.09sec, an indoor personal best, but Dobrynska was only 3.06sec behind. "That's the nature of pentathlon and heptathlon," Ennis reflected. You have good events and bad events. It doesn't always come together and that's the key. Dobrynska has the knack of being brilliant in Olympic year, staying below-par and then coming out and breaking world records and winning gold medals. She's in great form. She is indeed - unlike Chernova, whose golden form of last summer faded into a fifth place finish here. Still, Ennis's roller-coaster performance yesterday took her above Carolina Kluft, the Swedish queen of multi-events, in the all-time pentathlon rankings - not exactly a major disaster, with obvious room for improvement. So, no gold for Britain on day on. There was the hint of one to come, though. On the evidence of the qualifying round of the triple jump, there is a good chance of Yamile Aldama not only finishing among the medals in the final today but with the gold - at the age of 39 and representing her third country. A global medallist with her native Cuba and with Sudan, Aldama has lived and trained in London for 10 years and last summer switched allegiance to Great Britain. She finished top of the qualifying order by some distance with a jump of 14.62m, her best for six years. "I am very pleased," the Shaftesbury Barnet Harrier said, "but we will see what happens tomorrow. That's when it counts.