Ana Ivanovic

 Ana Ivanovic 

Ana Ivanovic (conceived 6 November 1987) is a resigned Serbian expert tennis player. Positioned No. 1 on the planet in 2008, she crushed Dinara Safina to win the 2008 French Open, was the runner-up at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open. She additionally met all requirements for the yearly WTA Tour Championships three circumstances, in 2007, 2008 and 2014 and won the year-end WTA Tournament of Champions twice, in 2010 and 2011.

Contending as an expert from 2003 till 2016, Ivanovic won 15 WTA Tour singles titles, including one Grand Slam singles title, the French Open in 2008. Also amid this time, she earned over $15 million in prize cash, which is the twentieth most elevated in the record-breaking rankings. In June 2011, she was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" by Time and was additionally included on the rundown of Top 100 Greatest Players Ever (male and female joined) by correspondent Matthew Cronin.

Her first achievement came at the 2004 Zürich Open, where she qualified and was barely beaten by Venus Williams in the second round in two tiebreak sets. By the age of 18 Ivanovic had officially crushed set up players, for example, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Nadia Petrova, Vera Zvonareva and Amélie Mauresmo. She additionally has vanquished numerous other over a significant time span beat players including Maria Sharapova, Venus and Serena Williams, Dinara Safina, Martina Hingis, Jelena Janković, Agnieszka Radwańska, Caroline Wozniacki, Petra Kvitová, Simona Halep, Angelique Kerber and Victoria Azarenka. At the point when on frame, Ivanovic was known for her forceful style of play and noteworthy forehand, depicted by Petrova as "the best out there.

Ivanovic's battles in the wake of winning the 2008 French Open were well documented. After that triumph, she was overpowered by attention and persevered through a progressing time of diminished achievement, neglecting to make a Grand Slam quarterfinal in her ensuing 17 Grand Slam competitions, and dropping as low as No. 65 in the rankings amid July 2010.In 2014, Ivanovic appreciated a resurgence, starting with her triumph in the Auckland Open, her first singles title in more than two years, before going ahead to win the Monterrey Open, Aegon Classic and the Pan Pacific Open. Ivanovic fit the bill for rivalry in the 2014 WTA Tour Championships in Singapore and secured a year-end positioning of No. 5, implying her arrival to the world's elite.[19] In 2015, Ivanovic made it to the elimination rounds of a noteworthy without precedent for a long time at the French Open. In the 2016 offseason, a couple days out from the earliest starting point of the 2017 visit, she reported her retirement, refering to being no longer ready to perform to an exclusive requirement as a main consideration.