Ana Ivanovic melbourne

Serbian tennis player Ana Ivanovic went with her ​​current boyfriend, Australian golfer Adam Scott in the opening ceremony of the President´s Cup golf tournament in Melbourne.

Serbian tennis player Ana Ivanovic went with her ​​current boyfriend, Australian golfer Adam Scott in the opening ceremony of the President´s Cup golf tournament in Melbourne.

Ana Ivanovic will be in the Tournament of Brisbane, with which formally will start the 2010 season

Ana Ivanovic will be in the Tournament of Brisbane, with which formally will start the 2010 season. The Serb has a Grand Slam so far achieved in the Roland Garros 2008

Top seed Ana Ivanovic, No. 12 ranking on the WTA Tour, will attend the international tournament in Brisbane, with which it will begin the 2010 season.

The event organizers distributed 220 thousand U.S. dollars in prizes from January 4, indicated that Ivanovic will be tested in the event, ahead of the first Grand Slam of the year, the Australia Open in Melbourne Park.

Thus compete in Australia as the fifth seed, which also participate as fellow top seed Jelena Jankovic, followed by Serena Williams and Dinara Safina, Elena Dementieva is in the fourth sowing and Venus Williams will be sixth.

Ana Ivanovic has a Grand Slam, Roland Garros in 2008 and eight titles on the WTA Tour, has been a finalist six times in singles and doubles, alongside Russia's Maria Kirilenko.

Until 2008 accumulated a total of five million 903 thousand 547 U.S. dollars in earnings, so that was placed at the Thirty-position in this field.

The Serbian tennis player has been placed on the second post WTA ranking and Sharapova with a victory in Melbourne and remains in fifth place.

The second place in the world ranking tennis today it has occupied since the Serb Ana Ivanovic endulzará the defeat suffered in the finals of the Australia Open to the Russian Maria Sharapova.

Ivanovic, 20, sum 4,126 points after reaching the second Grand Slam final of his short career yet. As the number one followed by Belgian Justine Henin, with 6,680 points. Sharapova does not improve its fifth place despite the title in Melbourne.

The first Latin American continues to be Spains Anabel Medina in the post 30.

WTA rankings of January 28, 2008:

1. (1) Justine Henin / Belgium 6,680 points

2. (3) Ana Ivanovic / Serbia 4,126

3. (2) Svetlana Kuznetsova / Russia 3,760

4. (4) Jelena Jankovic / Serbia 3,700

5. (5) Maria Sharapova / Russia 3,256

6. (8) Serena Williams / USA 2,720

7. (6) Anna Chakvetadze / Russia 2,720

8. Daniela Hantuchova (9) / 2,677 Slovakia

9. Marion Bartoli (10) / France 2,133

10. (7) Venus Williams / USA 2,022

A VENCIERON JANKOVIĆ AND HANTUCHOVA

The Russian Maria Sharapova, fifth favorite, and Serb Ana Ivanovic, head of the fourth series, will dispute the final of the womens Australian Open tennis after overcoming the Serbian Jelena Jankovic, 6-3 and 6-1, and the Slovak Daniela Hantuchova, 0-6, 6-3, 6-4, respectively.

With the same great form in which beat the Belgian Justine Henin, the world number one, in the quarter, Sharapova Jankovic defeated, although the Serb was unable to raise all the resistance that he would have liked because of some problems in the back and ended the last game party with tears.

Jankovic has had physical problems since the beginning of the season. During the Hopman Cup in Perth, the Sydney tournament and these two weeks in Melbourne. In the match against Sharapova, the Belgrade had to lie on the track to receive central massage on the back and even left the compound for a few minutes with the physiotherapist.

Ivanovic releases the racket after beating Hantuchova and qualify for the final. (Photo: AP) With tears and feeling that I could not do anything to fix it, Jankovic surrendered the match in one hour and 18 minutes. Sharapova blows scored 33 winners, eight saques direct and ceded his serve only once. "I am very happy of my performance here," he said, "I hope that the defeat in the finals of last year help me now."

For the Russians will be his fourth final of a Grand Slam, after winning the first at Wimbledon in 2004, the United States Open in 2006 and losing in Melbourne last year before the American Serena Williams.

Ana Ivanovic was close to defeat, but pulled out forces weakness to defeat Daniela Hantuchova in straight sets. The Serbs lost by 6-0 and 2-0 before the Slovak, but in a superb reaction successfully overcome and beat his opponent in two hours and 10 minutes. It will be the second Grand Slam final for Ivanovic, who last year lost the Roland Garros before the Belgian Justine Henin.

The Serbian Ana Ivanovic, the ninth favorite, settled the American Venus Williams (8), a finalist in 2003, 7-6 (3) and 6-4, and was placed in the semifinals of the Australian Open which will be measured with the Slovak Daniela Hantuchova (9).

In less than 24 hours, the Serbian power left out of the tournament with the two Williams sisters. On Tuesday, Jelena Jankovic (3), also from Serbia, had defeated Serena, the champion title, by 6-3 and 6-4, and now a battered Venus, who played with a strong bandage on the right thigh, succumbed to Ivanovic in one hour and 46 minutes.

Europe has just about packed with representatives of the four posts in the semi-finals of the first big year-Ivanovic Hantuchova and Sharapova-Jankovic.

Ivanovic was a finalist at Roland Garros and semifinalist at Wimbledon last year. With their victory today, reached the third semifinal of a Grand Slam of his career. The Belgrade had many illusions placed in the party today, because in four matches against Venus encounters, was unable to win even a single set.

But today Ivanovic played loose on a track that loves to take advantage of the weak service of his opponent and gain the first part. After losing to Venus was launched a desperate attack and came to lead the second 3-0. Ivanovic, connecting stunning blows from the baseline was able to equalize and forcing Venus to exchange those who came with not too clearly. And then pulled out the Serbian party to sign up its first victory against him.