Ana Ivanovic
Ana Ivanović (Serbian Cyrillic - Ана Ивановић; born November 6, 1987 in Belgrade, then Yugoslavia) is a Serbian tennis player. In 2008, she was 12 weeks at the top of the tennis world rankings.
- 3.1 Individual
- 4.1 Single
- 4.2 double
Career
With the tennis Ana began as a five- year-old, after she had seen on television playing Monica Seles. Her mother Dragana ( lawyer ) and her father Miroslav (businessman ) they duly notified in a tennis school. During the bombing of Serbia by NATO in 1999 she trained in a converted swimming pool in Belgrade Sports Center. At 14, she moved with her mother because of better training conditions in Switzerland. The Basel businessman Dan Holzmann was her manager. Ivanović had initially no permanent coach, she also collaborated with Sven Groeneveld. In August 2003, she began her professional career with the participation in ITF tournaments.
2004
Her first major success was reaching the final of the Junior Wimbledon, losing to Kateryna Bondarenko they. On ITF tournaments they won 26 games and five titles in a row. Their first big appearance on the WTA tour was a match against Venus Williams in October in Zurich, which she lost despite several set points with 6:711 and 6:76. A week later, she reached the quarterfinals in Luxembourg. She finished the year as number 97 in the world rankings after they had been standing at the beginning to place 708.
2005
2005 surprised Ivanović with a final win over Melinda Czink in Canberra. Further victories followed, such as, for example, over Svetlana Kuznetsova, Nadia Petrova, Vera Swonarewa - all top ten players. At the French Open, she defeated Amélie Mauresmo, before she retired against Petrova. During the year, she reached despite minor injuries in Zurich and Linz in the semi-finals and finished the year ranked 16th in the WTA rankings.
2006
At the Australian Open failed Ivanović in the second round with 3:6, 5:7 at the former double specialist Samantha Stosur. At the French Open, she came to the third round where she defeated Anastasia Myskina, the French Open champion from 2004, with 2:6 and 3:6.
At Wimbledon, they met in the second round to world number one and eventual winner Mauresmo, who defeated 3:6, 4:6. During warm-up tournament at the U.S. Open in Montreal Ivanović beat Martina Hingis (then number 9 in the world) with 6:2, 6:3 and secured the second tournament win of her career. As Geheimfavoritin the U.S. Open, she retired there in the third round against Serena Williams of ( 2:6, 4:6 ). Then they failed at the tournaments in Bali and Luxembourg respectively in round one. After nearly four weeks tournament break she lost in the quarter-finals of Linz against the U.S. Open champion Maria Sharapova with 6:7, 5:7. At the end Ivanović was on position 14 in the world rankings.
2007
This year, she won with a final victory over Kuznetsova the WTA tournament in Berlin. At the French Open she reached a semi-final victory over Sharapova ( 6-2, 6-1 ) for the first time the final of a Grand Slam tournament, which it has mainly lost to Justine Henin with 1:6, 2:6. In the semifinals of Wimbledon, she defeated Venus Williams again ( 2:6, 4:6 ). In August she won the WTA tournament in Los Angeles and climbed to Rank 4 in the world rankings. Again, Venus Williams ( 4:6, 2:6 ), they failed in the second round of the U.S. Open.
2008 - world number one and French Open champion
Earlier this year, Ivanović reached the final of the Australian Open for the first time, which, however, lost in straight sets against Sharapova; in the world rankings so before she moved to second place. At the Dubai Tennis Championships she stood in the quarterfinals, where she defeated Elena Dementieva. In Indian Wells, she celebrated her biggest success so far with a final victory over the world number three Svetlana Kuznetsova. A week later, in Miami she dropped against the former world number one Lindsay Davenport in the third round with 4:6, 2:6 from.
By their victory in the semifinals of the French Open on June 5 against Jelena Janković ( 6:4, 3:6, 6:4 ), she sat down on 9 June 2008 at the top of the world rankings. Thus, she became the second Serb after Monica Seles, the No. 1 in women's tennis. On June 7, she crowned her good performances in Paris with the first Grand Slam title. At Wimbledon she had to retire in the third round against the Chinese Zheng Jie ( 1:6, 4:6 ). Also at the WTA tournament in Montreal, she came ( with an injury to his right thumb) does not have the third round out ( they had to cancel their participation in the 2008 Olympic Games. On 11 August 2008 she gave the world rankings lead to her compatriot Jankovic from, to them a week later to take over again.
At the U.S. Open she failed in the second round to Julie Coin ( 3:6, 6:4, 3:6 ). Already in the previous round they had great difficulty with her three-set victory over Vera Dushevina. By the early retirement she was the number 1 final from U.S. Open champion Serena Williams. On October 26, Ivanović won her third title in Linz of the year. They also qualified for the WTA Tour Championships, due to illness she had to give up there, but after the second match.
2009
As a fifth in the world rankings this time she reached the Australian Open only the third round, where she lost to Alissa Kleibanowa in three sets.
In February, it undertook Craig Kardon as provisional new coach. With his support, she reached the quarterfinals in Dubai, but failed there to Serena Williams.
My first final this year in Indian Wells, California, she lost against defending champion Vera Swonarewa with 6:7, 2:6. In Miami, they eliminated in the third round against Ágnes Szávay. In both the French Open and at Wimbledon she failed in the second round, at the U.S. Open they did not make it past the first round. Right after Ivanović stated that she would take a break for now. Just one month later, however, she was back on the court. In Tokyo, she defeated Lucie Šafářová already in the first round. The tournament in Beijing she had to cancel due to a respiratory disease. She finished the season ranked 21 in the world rankings.
2010
Ivanović, who was trained from February to October 2010 by Heinz Günthardt, experienced a mixed season. At the Grand Slam tournaments in Melbourne ( Gisela Dulko defeat ) and Paris ( losing to Alissa Kleibanowa ) they did not get beyond the second round at Wimbledon she had already failed in opening match at the Israeli Shahar Peer. Temporarily she slipped down to 64th in the world rankings from their worst result since 2005.
Your greatest achievements came at two Premier 5 tournaments, where they moved into the semi-finals respectively: In Cincinnati (hard court ) had to give them up against Kim Clijsters for a suffered at the beginning of the first set foot injury, in Rome (clay ) she was subject to eventual tournament champion María José Martínez Sánchez in straight sets. In its annual kick-off tournament in Brisbane they defeated in the semifinals Justine Henin. Your first tournament victory in two years, they then celebrated in Linz (hard court ), where she won the title for the second time. Short term, standing in for the injured Serena Williams, she could final against Patty Schnyder clear ( 6:1, 6:2 ) to decide for themselves. On 7 November, she finally won the last WTA tournament of the year. In the final, she defeated Alissa Bali Kleibanowa 6:2, 7:65.
2011
At the Australian Open and the French Open Ivanović different in each case in the first round against unseeded players. When grass tournament of Birmingham, it reached number two as the seedings the semi-finals, where Daniela Hantuchová, however, proved to be the stronger one. In Eastbourne promoted them in the first match Julia Goerges 6-4, 6-3 in the tournament. At Wimbledon, Ivanović failed in the third round to Petra Cetkovská. In Carlsbad, she stormed into the semifinals, where she defeated the top-seeded Vera Swonarewa. In Toronto, at the U.S. Open in Tokyo and she was in the second round, she was disqualified against Roberta Vinci, Maria Kirilenko and Serena Williams each made in two sets. In Beijing, she had to give up after their quarter-final residue set match against Radwanska. In Bali, she won another title: After defeating Vinci and Petrova, she was also in the final against Anabel Medina Garrigues in straight sets successfully. So she took the end of season ranking 22
Personal
2006 Ana Ivanović was seen together with her colleague Daniela Hantuchova in a commercial by Sony Ericsson. During the Australian Open 2008, she wrote a daily column for the Melbourne newspaper The Age. On September 8, 2007 Ivanović was appointed alongside Jelena Janković, Aleksandar Djordjevic and Emir Kusturica for a UNICEF ambassador for Serbia.