Ana Ivanović Biography, Net Worth and Career

Ana Ivanovic, is a Serbian tennis player who was formerly ranked as high as No.1 in the world.

Ivanovic was born on November 6, 1987, and is better known professionally by her birth name Ana Ivanovic or in native language Ана Иванoвић / Ana Ivanović.

SFR Yugoslavia’s Belgrade is where Ivanovic was born. Most of her tennis matches have been watched by her mother, a lawyer named Dragana.

After seeing fellow Yugoslav Monica Seles on television when she was five, Ivanovic first took up a racket then.

She began her profession after memorizing a tennis clinic’s phone number from an advertisement in her hometown.

She was compelled to exercise in the morning during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in order to dodge bombardments. Later, she acknowledged that because there were no tennis facilities accessible in the winter, she trained in an abandoned swimming pool.

Due to the superior training facilities and coaching, she relocated to Basel, Switzerland, when she was 13 years old. When Ana secured a contract with a Swiss businessman and manager Dan Holzmann, who lived in Basel, the two relocated to Switzerland.

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Ana Ivanovic Career

Ivanovic lost to Kateryna Bondarenko in the Junior Wimbledon championship final. And won all five of the events she entered in 2004, going 26-0 on the ITF Women’s Circuit.

Two of those events were qualifiers. She defeated Tatiana Golovin, the No. 29 player in the world, as a qualifier in Zurich after trailing 5-1 in the third set and having two match points.

She then made her major tournament debut at the US Open, where Lioudmila Skavronskaia upset her despite having two match points in the third set and dominating the opening set 6-1.

Following her victory at the 2008 French Open, she rose to the top spot, which she held for a total of 12 weeks.

Additionally, she finished in second place in the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open, falling to Justine Henin and Maria Sharapova, respectively.

In 2007, 2008, and 2014, she made it to the WTA Tour Championships finals three times, and in 2010 and 2011, she won the WTA Tournament of Champions finals twice.

Early in the year, at the Canberra International, Ivanovic earned her first singles championship of her career by defeating Melinda Czink. After victories over top-10 competitors Vera Zvonareva in Warsaw, Svetlana Kuznetsova in Miami, and Nadia Petrova in Miami, her ranking continued to increase.

At the Australian Open in the third round, in Doha in the third round after leading 6-2, 2-0, and in the quarterfinals of the Miami Masters, Ivanovic fell to Amélie Mauresmo. Ivanovic defeated Mauresmo in the third round of the French Open, which was her biggest victory to that point.

Ana Ivanovic Biography Summary

Full name: Ana Schweinsteiger

Native name: Ана Ивановић / Ana Ivanović

Country (sports): Serbia and Montenegro

Residence: Westendorf, Tyrol, Austria

Date of Birth: 6 November 1987 (age 35) Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia

Height: 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)

Career record: 480–225 (68.1%)

Career titles: 15

Highest ranking: No. 1 (9 June 2008)

Grand Slam singles results: Australian Open

F (2008)
French Open
W (2008)
Wimbledon
SF (2007)
US Open
QF (2012)
Other tournaments
Tour Finals
SF (2007)
Olympic Games
3R (2012)
Doubles
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