Ana Ivanović

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Ana Ivanović
Ana Ivanović striking a return at the 2006 U.S. Open.
Country Flag of Serbia Serbia
Residence Basel, Switzerland
Date of birth November 6, 1987 (age 19)
Place of birth Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.86 m)
Weight 159 lb (72 kg)
Turned Pro 2003
Plays Right; Two-handed backhand
Career Prize Money $1,400,333
Singles
Career record: 138-48
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)

Infobox last updated on: March 19, 2007.

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 raquet 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, Ivanović announced via her official website that she has terminated the services of her former coach, David Taylor. She is currently coachless.

Ivanović is good friends with doubles partner Maria Kirilenko, as well as other professional tennis players Daniela Hantuchová, Svetlana Kuznetsova, and Sanja Ančić.

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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 Ivanović 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. Ivanović said that she "hopes to be in the Top 10 next year."

[edit] 2006

Ivanović started off 2006 by playing at the Hopman Cup with fellow Serbian Novak Djokovic where the pair narrowly missed the final. However, Ivanović had strong performances; both she and Djokovic 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 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 and 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 and Venus Williams in Luxembourg Ivanović took a few weeks off to tend to a recurring injury in her right shoulder, which she had sustained at around the same time last year. She made her return in Linz and 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.

Ivanović also played 9 tournaments in doubles this year, teaming up with Maria Kirilenko and Sania Mirza. Ivanović and Kirilenko made 2 semi-finals and a final; their impressive run saw them end at number 17 in the annual 'Race to the Championships.'

Ivanović 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.

[edit] 2007

Ivanović'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.

Ivanović entered the 2007 Australian Open seeded 13th. She defeated American Vania King, losing only two games, and survived a three set scare against Polish player Agnieszka Radwańska, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2. Ivanović 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, Ivanović made her third final, defeating Shenay Perry in the first round, Mara Santangelo in the second, Jelena Janković in the quarterfinal, and 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. Soon after she left for Antwerp where she made the quarter-finals, before losing to finalist Kim Clijsters. Ana was then off to America where she participated in the Indian Wells tournament. She quickly made the 4th round, dropping only 6 games in her first two matches against Vania King and Alicia Molik. In the 4th Round she was upset by Austrian Number 1 Sybille Bammer who ended up making a suprise run to the Semi-Finals.

Her next event was Miami, where she was upset by rising star Yaroslava Shvedova in the second round. Her next tournament is in Amelia Island

[edit] WTA Tour titles (2)

[edit] Singles (2)

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

[edit] Singles runner-up (1)

[edit] Doubles runner-up (1)

[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] Singles performance timeline

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the Miami Masters, which will end on March 31, 2007.

Tournament 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Career Win-Loss
Australian Open A A 3R 2R 3R 5-3
French Open A A QF 3R 6-2
Wimbledon A A 3R 4R 5-2
U.S. Open A A 2R 3R 3-2
Grand Slam Win-Loss 0-0 0-0 9-4 8-4 2-1 19-9
WTA Tour Championships A A A A 0-0
Tokyo A A A 2R F 5-2
Indian Wells A A A QF 4R 5-2
Miami Masters A A QF 4R 2R 6-3
Charleston A A A A 0-0
Berlin A A 1R 1R 0-2
Rome A A 3R A 2-1
San Diego A A A 3R 2-1
Toronto/Montreal A A 3R W 7-0
Moscow A A A A 0-0
Zurich A 2R SF A 4-2
Tournaments played 1 5 16 19 7 48
Finalist 0 0 0 0 1 1
Tournaments Won 0 0 1 1 0 2
Hardcourt Win-Loss 1-1 6-3 26-8 24-11 8-5 65-27
Clay Win-Loss 0-0 0-1 9-4 4-3 0-0 13-8
Grass Win-Loss 0-0 0-1 2-1 5-2 0-0 7-4
Carpet Win-Loss 0-0 0-0 3-1 2-2 6-2 11-5
Overall Win-Loss 1-1 6-5 40-14 35-18 14-7 96-451
Year End Ranking 705 97 16 14 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 138-49.

A = did not participate in the tournament

[edit] WTA Tour singles ranking

  • End of 2003: 705
  • End of 2004: 97
  • End of 2005: 16
  • End of 2006: 14
  • Before 2005 French Open: 31
  • After 2005 French Open: 21
  • Current ranking: 17
  • Career high ranking: 13

[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
20071 0 0 0 177,640 13

1 - As of February 19

[edit] External links

Preceded by
Maria Sharapova		 WTA Most Improved Player
2005		 Succeeded by
Jelena Janković
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