The Serbian tennis sensation Ana Ivanovic was born on November 6, 1987 in the city of Belgrade. The former top ranked Serbian player is listed as world number sixty four by the Women Tennis Association as of June 2010. The right handed player triumphed in the French Open back in 2008 and finished off the 2007 French Open along with the Australian Open back in 2008 as the runner up.
Dragana who is a mother of Ivanovic is a lawyer by profession and watches every single match of her daughter. On the other hand, Serbian’s dad who is a businessman also attends as many of her daughter’s matches as he can. Ana’s little brother Milo is more inclined towards basket ball as compared to tennis. Apart from her game of tennis, Ivanovic is also a finance student in the University of Belgrade as well as learns Spanish language in her free time. Monica Seles was the name who motivated the young girl, the most.
Along with Jelena Jankovic, Emir Kusturica as well as Aleksandar Dordevic, the Serbian tennis ace, Ivanovic also became the national ambassador of UNICEF for her country, Serbia. The girl is passionate mainly in the department of child defense as well as literacy rate of her home land. During her primary school trip, the Serbian tennis sensation also expressed her desire of visiting the class rooms and chatting with the little kids over there.
Almost two years ago, Ivanovic ratified her involvement with a Spanish Tennis athlete Fernando Verdasco however, according to the news, their parted ways towards the start of last year. The girl also has a couple of buddies in the tennis world including her childhood friend Novak Djokovic as well the top ranked tennis athlete from the men’s side, Rafael Nadal. The 22 years old Serbian idolizes the tennis master, Roger Federer since long. Currently, the girl is going out with a professional golf player Adam Scott.
The Serbian sensation who started playing tennis as young as five years of age used to watch Monica Seles in her childhood. During the initial period of her training, the girl faced NATO attacks back in 1999 thus was pushed to practice in the morning in order to dodge them. At the age of fifteen, Ivanovic faced her first loss after which she couldn’t stop her tears, thinking that her manager Dam Holmann would skip her believing that she isn’t capable enough to play tennis at the international level.
Ivanovic turned pro in 2003 and made her way for the first time into the final match of the Wimbledon junior championship in 2004 however was knocked down by Kateryna Bondarenko. In the same year, she later on triumphed in all of the five championships she contested.
The Serbian tennis ace came to the lime light for the first time when she fought extremely well against Venus Williams in a 7–6(11), 7–6(6) match set in Zurich Open, held in Switzerland. The girl later on performed well in the next week’s quarterfinal as well.
All through the years, the Serbian tennis sensation Ana Ivanovic through constant hard work and improvement in her quality of game won a couple of matches against a variety of tennis players including Mauresmo, Martina Hingis, Agnieszka Radwanska, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Maria Sharapova, Nadia Petrova, Jelena Jankovic, Hantuchova, Urszula Radwanska, Monica Niculescu, Renee Reinhard, Dinara Safina and many more.
Therefore, the Serbian tennis sensation who is famous for her aggressive style of play is definitely going to stay in the world of tennis for many years to come.
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