Ana Ivanovic

Ana Ivanovic was recently voted the world’s most beautiful tennis player, she is the currently ranked at number 1 in the WTA, and won her first Grand Slam in 2008 when she defeated Dinara Safina in the French Open Final. The 22 year old Serbian player has played in two other Grand Slam Finals, losing in the 2007 French Open Final to Justine Henin and she reached the Final of the Australian Open last year, losing to Maria Sharapova. She was also a semi-finalist at 2007 Wimbledon Championship and reached Round 4 in the US Open in 2007. She has proven that she has an exciting all surface game, and will be amongst the Favourites in the Australian Open Betting to break her duck and go one better here this year.

Ana plays an attacking baseline game, relying on power, depth and placement of her forehand strokes. She has already earned a great reputation for her passing shots. Over the last two years she has worked tirelessly on her net play and has improved out of all proportion. She has a very good two-handed backhand, but when she can, she will always play the inside out forehand. Her serve sometimes lets her down and has often cost her important games. She serves forcefully, but not always accurately but she does have a good tendency to hit aces off her second serve. She has been known to win matches when her 1st serve percentage has been as low as 40%.

At present, Ana has won seven WTA Titles and has finished runner-up in three more. Five of these wins have come on hard court surfaces.