Ana Ivanovic listen born November 6, 1987, in Belgrade, Serbia, then Yugoslavia is a Serbian professional tennis player. She is the current World No. 1 on the WTA Tour.
She won her first Grand Slam singles title at the 2008 French Open. She was the runner-up in singles at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open
Ivanovi? was born in an ethnic Serbian family. Her mother, Dragana, a lawyer, attends all of her daughter’s matches. Ana’s father, Miroslav, who is a self-employed businessman, attends as many events as he possibly can. Ana has a younger brother, Miloš, with whom she loves to play basketball. Other hobbies include shopping, watching movies and playing Sudoku. She chooses not to have a permanent coach. Aside from her tennis career, Ivanovi? also studies finance at a university in Belgrade, and Spanish in her spare time. Her inspiration to begin playing was Monica Seles, and she also admires Roger Federer.
Ivanovi? picked up a racket at the age of 5 after watching Monica Seles, a fellow Yugoslavian, at Roland Garros on television. She started her promising career at the age of 5, after memorizing the number of a local tennis clinic from an ad on TV. During her training she encountered the NATO bombings in 1999, where she would have to train in the morning to avoid them. Later on she admitted she would train in an abandoned swimming pool in the winter, as there were no other facilities. When she was 15, Ivanovi? spent four hours in the locker room crying after a defeat - the first that her new manager had watched - because she thought that Dan Holzmann was going to drop her because she felt that she wasn’t good enough to become a professional tennis player. He has stayed as her manager to this day
On September 8, 2007, Ivanovi? became a UNICEF National Ambassador for Serbia, alongside Aleksandar ?or?evi? and Emir Kusturica. She takes a special interest in the fields of education and child protection. Ivanovi? visited a primary school in Serbia during her inauguration and said: “I’m also looking forward to going into the classroom and meeting many kids.”
Ivanovi? is a fan of all sport clubs competing under the name of Partizan Belgrade.
Ivanovi? is friends with former doubles partner Maria Kirilenko, as well as other professional tennis players Daniela Hantuchova, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Sanja Ancic, Rafael Nadal, Tatiana Golovin and fellow Serbians Novak Djokovic (whom she has known since the age of 5) and Janko Tipsarevi?.
Ivanovi? endorsed Nike apparel and shoes at the beginning of her professional career, but at the beginning of 2006 she switched to rival Adidas. She started with the Wilson HTour racquet, then upgraded to the nCode nTour and to the nCode nTour Two before switching to the nCode nBlade. Since the beginning of 2008, Ivanovi? is using the Yonex RQiS Tour 1
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