Ana Ivanović

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Ana Ivanović
Country Flag of Serbia Serbia
Residence Basel, Switzerland
Date of birth November 6, 1987 (age 19)
Place of birth Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Height 6ft (1.83 m)
Weight 160 lb (73 kg)
Turned Pro 2003
Plays Right; Two-handed backhand
Career Prize Money $1,169,803
Singles
Career record: 124-42
Career titles: 2
Highest ranking: No. 13 (October 16, 2006)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open 3rd (2005)
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)

Infobox last updated on: November 6, 2006.

Ana Ivanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ана Ивановић) (born November 6, 1987 in Belgrade) is a Serbian professional tennis player. She started tennis at the age of five after seeing the sport on TV. She asked her parents to take her to the local tennis school and she 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.

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[edit] Career

[edit] 2004

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, and 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.

[edit] 2005

In 2005 she 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 and 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 and Linz, by making the semi-finals in both. Her great year saw her end at Number 16 in the rankings. Ana said that She "hopes to be in the Top 10 next year."

[edit] 2006

Ana started off 2006 by playing at the Hopman Cup with fellow Serbian Novak Đoković where the pair narrowly missed the final. However, Ana had strong performances and both Ana and Novak endeared themselves to many Australian fans with charming personalities and 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 announced her self in the list of tennis's elite. This came by dominating 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 taking out the United States Open Series in front of Kim Clijsters and Maria Sharapova. Many thought she would take out the Us Open but she lost to a resurgent Serena Williams. After some shock early round losses to Olga Poutchkova in Bali and Venus Williams in Luxembourg Ana took a few weeks off to a bugging injured right shoulder, which she had sustained around the same time last year. She made her return in Linz making it to the quarterfinals, before losing to former world number 1 Maria Sharapova. To finish off her year she had a disappointing run in Hasselt, Belgium, as she lost to Netherlands Michaella Krajicek.

Ana also played 9 tournaments in doubles this year teaming up with Maria Kirilenko and Sania Mirza. Ana and Maria made 2 Semi-Finals and a Final, in their impressive run which saw them end at number 17 in the annual 'Race to the Championships.'

Ana will finish off 2006 as the 14th best ranked women in the world. She is only a few points off making her debut in the Top 10. As in doubles Ana crept up to Number 52 in the world, an improvement of her mediocre Top 200 finish last year.

[edit] 2007

In 2007 Ana will start the year at the Mondial Hardcourts, Gold Coast, before heading south to the Medibank International, Sydney. She will then go down to the Australian Open and try for her first Grand Slam title.

[edit] World ranking

[edit] Performance timeline

Tournament 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 Career
Australian Open 2r 3r - - 0
French Open 3r QF - - 0
Wimbledon 4r 3r - - 0
U.S. Open 3r 2r - - 0
Grand Slam Win-Loss 8-4 9-4 0-0 0-0 17-8
WTA Tour Championships - - - - 0
Toray Pan Pacific Open, Tokyo 2r - - - 0
Indian Wells Masters QF - - - 0
Miami Masters 4r QF - - 0
Family Circle Cup, Charleston - - - - 0
Qatar Telecom German Open, Berlin 1r 1r - - 0
Rome Masters - 3r - - 0
Acura Classic, San Diego 3r - - - 0
Canada Masters W 3r - - 1
Kremlin Cup, Moscow - - - - 0
Zurich Open - SF 2r - 0
Tournaments played 19 16 5 1 41
Finalist 0 0 0 0 0
Tournaments Won 1 1 0 0 2
Hardcourt Win-Loss 24-11 26-8 6-3 1-1 57-23
Clay Win-Loss 4-3 9-4 0-1 0-0 13-8
Grass Win-Loss 5-2 2-1 0-1 0-0 7-4
Carpet Win-Loss 2-2 3-1 0-0 0-0 5-3
Overall Win-Loss 35-18 40-14 6-5 1-1 82-381
Year End Ranking 14 16 97 705 N/A

Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-8 (quarter finals up to finalist).
1 If ITF women's circuit (Hardcourt: 5-0; Clay: 21-4; Carpet: 16-0) participations are included, overall win-loss record stands at 124-42.

[edit] Singles (2)

Legend
Grand Slam (0)
WTA Championships (0)
Tier I Event (1)
WTA Tour (1)
No. Date Tournament Surface Opponent in the final Score
1. January 15, 2005 Canberra, Australia Hard Hungary Melinda Czink 7-5 6-1
2. August 21, 2006 Montreal, Canada Hard Switzerland Martina Hingis 6-2 6-3

[edit] Other results

Since her professional debut in August 2003 she won 5 ITF Titles. When she won her maiden title in 2005, she was the first WTA winner to have won in the final playing an opponent that she had already beaten before (In the Qualifying Round).

[edit] WTA Tour career earnings

Year Majors WTA wins Total wins Earnings ($) Money list rank
2003 0 0 0 2,630 732
2004 0 0 0 58,010 166
2005 0 1 1 472,547 29
2006 0 1 1 671,616 20

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Preceded by
Maria Sharapova		 WTA Most Improved Player
2005		 Succeeded by
TBD
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