By Tennis Guru on Jan 4, 2010 in Ana Ivanovi?, Brisbane International, Tennis News, WTA | 0 Comments
Serbian Ana Ivanovic started the 2010 season with a win at the Brisbane International. The 2008 French Open champion defeated Australia’s Jelena Dokic 75 16 63 to advance to the second round.
The former world number one has not played on tour since her surprising first round exit at a tournament in Tokyo last September. Her ranking decline following early tournament exits including her first round loss at the US Open.
Ivanovic said that she’s raring to make a grand return to the world’s top ten. She’s currently ranked 21st.
“Obviously there were nerves in the beginning, but I did a really good preparation and that gave me a lot of confidence,” she said.
Other first round winners at the Brisbane International include Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic.
By Tennis Guru on Jun 27, 2009 in Ana Ivanovi?, Tennis Feature, Wimbledon | 0 Comments
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Ana Ivanovic interview transcript, Wimbledon 2009 on June 27, 2009 following her third round win over Samantha Stosur of Australia 7-5, 6-2. The Serb will next meet two-time defending champion Venus Williams of United States in the fourth round.
Q. Was that your best match so far at Wimbledon?
ANA IVANOVIC: It was pretty good. I played really well. And I’m very happy that, uhm, today’s match was ?? I think my tactics and my game plan prevailed over my emotions. That’s something I’m really happy about.
I stick with my plan and I just, you know, kept playing the best I can every point.
By Tennis Guru on Jun 26, 2009 in Ana Ivanovi?, Tennis Feature, Wimbledon | 0 Comments
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Ana Ivanovic interview transcript, Wimbledon 2009 on June 25, 2009.
Q. Nice to get a more comfortable match than your first round?
ANA IVANOVIC: Yes. I was really happy about it. It was a very tough first set. Obviously 5?3 down and coming back, and then saving some breakpoints in that serving game on 5?All.
But I played some good tennis then and stayed calm and really didn’t make many mistakes. I was really happy about that. It was ?? you know, gave me some confidence for the second set. I just stick with the game plan from then on.
By Tennis Guru on Jun 1, 2009 in Ana Ivanovi?, Featured, French Open, Grand Slam, Rafael Nadal, Tennis News | 0 Comments
Defending French Open champions Rafael Nadal and Ana Ivanovic were surprisingly sent home on the same day, May 31.
Nadal, a four-time Roland Garros champion, suffered his first defeat in five appearances at this claycourt tournament. He was beaten in the fourth round by 23rd-seed Swedish player Robin Soderling in four sets (2-6, 7-6, 4-6, 6-7).
Soderling was clearly not intimidated with the Spaniard’s flawless record as he committed 61 winners as opposed to Nadal’s 33. This figure ultimately covered for his 59 unforced errors to Nadal’s 28.
Check out the match statistics HERE.
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