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The tennis player Ana Ivanovic serbia not enjoyed great seasons on courts of brick dust, but will try to improve last year and win the French Open at Roland Garros.

The tennis player Ana Ivanovic serbia not enjoyed great seasons on courts of brick dust, but will try to improve last year and win the French Open at Roland Garros.

The 20-year-old player lost to Belgian Justine Henin at the end of 2007, and Now, before the withdrawal of former world number one, is one of the favorites to win the title on June 7.

To prepare for this event, which will begin on Sunday, Ivanovic focused on the physical, playing games on long brick dust.

"I was training a lot on my movement specific dust," said serbia in an interview with Reuters at the Berlin Open, a week before the announcement of his departure on Henin before playing their first encounter on courts of brick dust. tennis.

"The important thing is to stay in shape and try to slip, because that will help me a lot. The movement of dust is very different from the hard courts," he said.

Be ready to change the style of brick dust means a lot of work with a fitness coach.

"One must be very strong heart and the adductor muscles, something that my coach is working," he added.

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The Serbian Ana Ivanovic won the title at Indian Wells break for 6-4 and 6-3 to Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova, who defeated in one hour and 21 minutes.

With more effectively in the draw that his rival and with little errors, Ivanovic managed to get hold of the first set, which started very equalled. He move to Russia on both sides of the track and decided to blows winners.

In the second match, the Serbian broke service early in the second favorite of the tournament to get to 2-1, but Kuznetsova was able to respond, the move back and stood in front (2-3).

With the set again equalized three games, Ivanovic was able to return to neutralize, double, out of the Russians, and a final decisive blow rose with the title.

"I am very happy for the title. Had to be aggressive, Svetlana is a great player, I knew it had to displace the track," said the Serb at the end of the meeting. "We started very well the two, but I have focused on the draw and I have taken advantage of opportunities that have been presented," he added.

In the upcoming Masters Series Cay Vizcaino (Miami, USA), Ivanovic hopes to repeat success in that tournament. "I had good feelings these days, I would relax a bit and improve in the next," he said.