Ana Ivanovic

The Swiss Heinz Gunthardt helped get 12 of the 22 Grand Slam titles that Graf has to its credit.

Ana Ivanovic still seeking the reason for his poor background in recent days and the solution always points to the figure of a coach. The Serbian, 22, has not done anything but collect technical since come down from number 1 in the WTA ranking to 23rd position he currently holds. After winning the hand of Sven Groeneveld, whom he succeeded win Roland Garros and become queen of the women's circuit, passed through the hands of Craig Kardon, finally returning to the working group devoted to Adidas and figure Groeneveld.

The early season results (semifinals in Brisbane, in the second round of Australia Open and lost two games in the first round of Fed Cup against Russia) have made the tennis player from Belgrade switch back to air. Ana 's new coach will be the Swiss Heinz Gunthardt, former coach of the American Jennifer Capriati or the German Steffi Graf, who helped get 12 of the 22 Grand Slam titles that Graf has to its credit. After removal of the latter, Gunthardt had worked as a television commentator, but he will now put the monkey overalls to work with Ivanovic. Restoring confidence in the former world No. 1 will be the main objective.

The debut of teacher and student will be in New York next week in an exhibition tournament. A first contact to serve as a starting point and see what condition Ivanovic reaches the mini-American tour, where he argues final at Indian Wells and Miami second round.

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Two years ago, the squeaky shoes tennis Ana Ivanovic took her to the final of the women's branch of the Australia Open against Maria Sharapova.

Less than six months, led to their first title in a Grand Slam tournament at Roland Garros, the number one world ranking and apparently by a golden path that would lead to a permanent place among the top five.

Unfortunately, the performance of the Serb 22 years has worsened since then, and on Thursday the beat Argentina's Gisela Dulko 6-7, 7-5 and 6-4 in the second round of the Australia.

Argentina never had advanced beyond the second round at Melbourne Park in his six previous attempts.

Ivanovic has won only one tournament since his victory in Paris, a small event in 2008 in Linz tennis betting, not has gotten past the fourth round at any Grand Slam tournaments.

Ivanovic admitted that she felt her brain was hampering his game and think much about the situations when I was playing well, instead of being driven by their instincts.

"I start well and play well, and then, as I have no expectations, just go out and enjoy it (...) So I think I can play well all the time (and) then I get tense and start to make mistakes because I want to play well (consistently), "he told reporters.

"I think when actually left in the wild (my) emotions (...) best game is when," he added.

Dulko Ivanovic broke serve in the final set, but the Serbs found a way to fight on, winning the next three games to put the spectators standing on the Margaret Court Arena encouragingly.

The courageous action, however, ended in the next game when he three match points to Dulko, Argentina missed that, before a fourth opportunity to avoid mistakes and closed the meeting.

"I was very disappointed to fight on in the third set and then a couple of double faults and basically give him three match points, then must fight back," said Ivanovic.

"(But) I feel I have the right things in place and I'm playing, as I said, hitting the ball really well," he said.

Argentina's tennis player beat the favorite by partial Serb 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-4 to advance to the second round, Davydenko, Djokovic and Venus Williams also made his move to the third round

Argentina's Gisela Dulko surprisingly eliminated on Thursday Serbian Ana Ivanovic , former French Open champion 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-4 in a match in the second round at the Australia Open.

The Colombian Alejandro Falla continued in the tournament with a victory 6-4, 6-1, 6-3 win over Marcel Granollers.

With his first win in three matches against Ivanovic, Dulko becomes the third wheel, the first time he goes so far in this tournament.

Ivanovic, who came to be in first place in the world ranking, is pre-classifier twentieth this year at Melbourne Park after a mediocre 2009. In 2008 he fell in the Australia Open final against Maria Sharapova.

Dulko served for the match twice in the third sleeve, but his opponent broke his serve, and Argentina broke Ivanovic's serve when they were 4.5 while serving to stay in the match. He finally won on his sixth match point.

Meanwhile, Venus Williams, playing his 10 Open in Australia, also came to the third round with a victory 6-2, 7-5 win over Sybille Bammer of Austria. Williams has won seven Grand Slam titles, but only reached a final in Australia in 2003 when losing to sister Serena.

Among men, the third-seeded Novak Djokovic overcame early problems to Swiss Marco Chiudinelli, to beat him 3-6, 6-1, 6-1, 6-3. Djokovic committed nine double faults and 52 unforced errors against a player who was in his first Open in Australia.

Djokovic will play in the next round with the Uzbek Denis Istomin, who beat German Michael Berrer 7-5, 6-3, 6-4.

The sixth-seeded Nikolai Davydenko, of Russia, won 6-3, 6-3, 6-0 to Ukrainian Illya Marchenko in the same quiet way that has characterized his streak of 11 victories.

The tennis player of 28 years is the prominence of a Federer or Nadal, and has never reached the final of a Grand Slam tournament, but nobody has played better in recent weeks.

Davydenko dominated Marchenko to extend a streak that has included titles in the World Tour Finals and the Doha tournament, first 2010.

In other matches of the day, Marcos Baghdatis, a finalist here four years ago, had problems with cramps, but defeated the Spanish David Ferrer 4-6, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6 -- 1, and another Spanish, Nicolas Almagro beat German Benjamin Becker 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3.

In women's play, Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki advanced with a 6-3 victory, 6-1 over Julia Goerges, Germany, and will face Israel's Shahar Peer, winner of Bulgaria's Tsvetana Pironkova 6-1, 6-4.

Other women who advanced were: Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, Vera Zvonareva, of Russia, Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska, China's Li Na of China and the Spanish Carla Suarez Navarro.