Ana Ivanovic, Tennis Player, - Biography,
Serbian tennis player.
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Born, November 6, 1987, Belgrade, (Now in the Republic of Serbia
(Since 2006) Yugoslavia
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight 160 lb (73 kg)
Turned Pro 2003
Plays Right; Two-handed backhand Career Prize Money $1,368,943
Singles Career record: 134-46 Career titles: 2 WTA, 5 ITF Highest ranking:
No. 13 (October 16, 2006)
Grand Slam results Australian Open 3rd (2005, 2007)
French Open QF (2005) Wimbledon 4th (2006) U.S. Open 3rd (2006)
Doubles Career
record: 19-18 Career titles: 0 Highest ranking: No. 50 (September 25, 2006)
Ana
Ivanovic is a Serbian professional tennis player. She started tennis at the age
of 5 after seeing the sport on TV. She asked her parents to take her to the local
tennis school & was given a small racket as a birthday present from her father
shortly after. Tennis player Monica Seles was her main inspiration for wanting
to be a tennis player.
Immediately after the 2007 Australian Open, Ivanovic announced via her official website that she has terminated the services of her former coach, David Taylor. She is currently coachless.
Ivanovic is good
friends with doubles partner Maria Kirilenko, as well as other professional tennis
players Daniela Hantuchová, Svetlana Kuznetsova, & Sanja Ancic.
She
first caught the eye of the tennis world when she reached the final of the Junior
Wimbledon tournament in 2004, losing to Kateryna Bondarenko. In 2004 she also
went 26-0 on the challenger circuit, & won all 4 events that she entered,
two of them as a qualifier. Her first professional breakthrough occurred in October
of 2004 when she took Venus Williams to two tie breaks before losing 7-6(11) 7-6(6)
in the second round of the Zurich Open in Zurich, Switzerland, this was after
a tremendous 3 set battle with, then ranked, Number 27 Tatiana Golovin. She followed
that up with a quarterfinal showing in Luxembourg the following week.
In 2005
Ivanovic burst onto the scene by winning her first career singles titles, as a
qualifier, in Canberra, Australia. Her ranking continued to rise after impressive
wins over Svetlana Kuznetsova, Nadia Petrova, Vera Zvonareva, all (at the time)
Top 10 players. Later on she scored her biggest win as she knocked out local favorite
& 3rd seed Amélie Mauresmo in the 2005 French Open's third round, before
her tournament came to an end in the Quarterfinals after an encounter with Russia's
Nadia Petrova. Later on in the year injury sidelined her from moving further up
the rankings but she showed signs of great form in Zurich & Linz, by making
the semi-finals in both. Her great year saw her end at Number 16 in the rankings.
Ivanovic said that she "hopes to be in the Top 10 next year."
Ivanovic
started off 2006 by playing at the Hopman Cup with fellow Serbian Novak Djokovic
where the pair narrowly missed the final. However, Ivanovic had strong performances;
both she & Djokovic endeared themselves to many Australian fans with charming
personalities & entertaining play. To start off her WTA year she played in
Sydney where she once again defeated Mauresmo, this time in straight sets, before
falling to an in-form Svetlana Kuznetsova in the quarterfinals.
She continued with some solid results, hammering Patty Schnyder in straight sets at Warsaw. Then her career breakthrough came in August, as she dominated former world number 1, Martina Hingis in the final of the Canada Masters, in which she won 6-2 6-3. This ultimately led to her winning the United States Open Series ahead of Kim Clijsters & Maria Sharapova. Many thought she would go on to win the US Open but she lost to a resurgent Serena Williams. After some shock early round losses to Olga Poutchkova in Bali & Venus Williams in Luxembourg Ivanovic took a few weeks off to tend to a reccuring injury in her right shoulder, which she had sustained at around the same time last year. She made her return in Linz & made it to the quarterfinals, before losing to former world number 1 Maria Sharapova in two tight sets. To finish off her year she had a disappointing run in Hasselt, Belgium, as she lost to the Netherlands' Michaella Krajicek.
Ivanovic also played 9 tournaments in doubles this year, teaming up with Maria Kirilenko & Sania Mirza. Ivanovic & Kirilenko made 2 semi-finals & a final; their impressive run saw them end at number 17 in the annual 'Race to the Championships.'
Ivanovic
finished off 2006 as the 14th best ranked women in the world. In the doubles,
she crept up to finish at number 51 in the world, an improvement of her mediocre
Top 200 finish last year.
Ivanovic's first tournament was at the Mondial Hardcourts,
in Gold Coast, falling to Shahar Peer 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 in the quarterfinals. Her
next tournament was the Sydney Medibank International. After demolishing Australian
Casey Dellacqua, she downed Nadia Petrova in straight sets, before losing, in
the quarterfinals again, to an in-form Nicole Vaidišová 6-4, 6-2.
Ivanovic entered the 2007 Australian Open seeded 13th. She defeated American Vania King, losing only two games, & survived a three set scare against Polish player Agnieszka Radwanska, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2. Ivanovic faced No. 22 Vera Zvonareva in the third round, but fell in straight sets 6-1, 6-2.
At the 2007 Toray Pan Pacific
Open in Tokyo, Japan, Ivanovic made her third final, defeating Shenay Perry in
the first round, Mara Santangelo in the second, Jelena Jankovic in the quarterfinal,
& Maria Sharapova (who retired while trailing by a set) in the semifinal.
After recovering from a break down in the first set against Hingis, Ivanovic lost
seven straight games from 3-4 to 6-4 4-0 before losing 6-4, 6-2.
Her
highest ranking No. 4 in October 25, 2004.
This site was written in February 2007
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