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Serbia's Ana Ivanovic eliminated Monday Open Tennis U.S. by American Serena Williams, said New York bid farewell to the tournament happy with her tennis, and willing to re-enter the `top ten 'of the WTA as soon as possible.

Ivanovic, 23, fell under the onslaught of Hurricane 'Serena', which fell from Flushing Meadows two bursts of 6-3, 6-4 in 74 minutes of play in game for the second round of the last Grand Slam the year.

For Serbia, the result is not so hopeless. Looking for the positive angle of defeat, and is convinced to have made a good tennis in this U.S. Open.

"Actually I would not feel overwhelmed," he said. "I really felt I generated a lot of opportunities, but she played very well, had a better serve, and that was the difference," said Ivanovic.

The tennis player from Belgrade arrived at Flushing Meadows with the idea of ​​exorcising ghosts, and return to walk in the elite tennis WTA world rankings which once led by 12 weeks, until injuries and a lack of confidence made him fall from the pedestal.

Ivanovic reached world number one ranking on June 9, 2008, shortly after winning Wimbledon, winning the only Grand Slam title of his career has to date.

But when I was at the peak of his career collapsed as fast as up, and began to tumble in the circuit pursued by wrist injuries, abdominal and one hand, and that led to a crisis of confidence. He changed coaches and dresses, and even had to hire a psychologist to help you find the course of his career.

"Those were hard times, trying to find my tennis, not knowing that he first had to find myself," said Ivanovic in Spanish, speaking English as fluently as his.

Now, with another trainer at his side, Britain's Nigel Sears, a Wimbledon legend of the horizon began to become visible.

"I know things are not going to change overnight just because you want it, but I have to work hard for it, and we're," he said Ivanovic, considered the number 23 among the 100 most beautiful women in the world , according to FHM magazine, ahead of her fellow circuit and Anna Kournikova Maria Sharapova.

"I've said many times. I want to know about my game and not be pretty. I would feel better if I'm in the top 10 world ranking, that among the 100 most beautiful ", he stressed the Ivanonic.

The official site of the women's competition conducted a survey to determine the most cherished rackets.

The official website of the WTA tennis professional circuit conducted a survey for your users to pick the most popular members of their records.

Thus the site already publishes the Top 20 players, according to the popular vote, which include the names of the Williams sisters and always present in these counts: Maria Sharapova, Ana Ivanovic and Caroline Wozniacki.

It also highlights the presence of Russian tennis player Elena Dementieva, who at the end of this year announced his retirement from professional tennis.

Russia's Nadia Petrova, the first favorite, easily surpassed the first round of tennis tournament in Seoul by winning the Australian Jarmila Groth, while Serbia's Ana Ivanovic, seeded seventh, also said goodbye to the Russian Vera Sushevina.

Russia's Nadia Petrova, the first favorite, easily surpassed the first round of tennis tournament in Seoul by winning the Australian Jarmila Groth, while Serbia's Ana Ivanovic, seeded seventh, took leave to another Russian Vera Sushevina. Besides Petrova, who won 6-3, 6-2, also spent the second and third favorite, Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Maria Kirilenko.

Ivanovic 6-2, 4-6 and 2-6. It was the only seeded it did in the day when all games were played on Tuesday postponed by rain, and also won the Spanish Maria Jose Martinez (4), the Kazakh Yaroslava Shvedova (6) and the Hungarian Agnes Szavay (8).
Results of the day, first round:

Nadia Petrova (RUS, 1) Jarmila Groth (AUS) 6-3 6-2

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS, 2) Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) by 7-6 (6), 6-1

Maria Kirilenko (RUS, 3) Urszula Radwanska (POL) 6-3 6-1

Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP, 4) Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) by 7-6 (3), 6-4

Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ, 6) Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) 6-4 7-5

Vera Dushevina (RUS) Ana Ivanovic (SRB, 7), 2-6, 6-4, 6-2

Agnes Szavay (HUN, 8) to Polona Hercog (SLO) 6-1 6-2

Kimiko Date Krumm (JPN) to Junrie Namigata (JPN), 6-2, 7-5

Dinara Safina (RUS) Simona Halep (RUM), 6-4, 6-4

Klara Zakopalova (CZE) Julia Goerges (GER), 7-5, 2-6, 7-5

Vania King (USA) Alberta Brianti (ITA) 6-4 7-5

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.

Silhouettes instead of pictures and manipulated by computers stoppered thighs: thus promotes the Qatar Masters women's tennis which starts in Doha.

For years the WTA decided to sell their star appeal to sensuality, but his first experience with the Masters in the Near East confirmed that it has no alternative but to exercise restraint.

The tournament that brings together the eight best tennis of the season came to the emirate shortly after the completion Ramadan, the holy month of the Muslim world in which believers of Allah fasting and abstinence meet to meditate and come closer to their god.

Qatar, who is from a few years immersed in a stage of opening, understood that the change can not be overnight. The result: on the streets there are no traces of the classical charts with publicity photos that highlight the beauty of the Serbian Ana Ivanovic and company.

"As the month of Ramadan, we gather and we decided it was best to make silhouettes and not show her legs and arms of the players. We believed that we had to adapt to the country respecting their customs and religion, "told dpa the Moroccan Karim Alami, director of the contest.

The organization of the tournament previously sent photos of the girls in tennis clothes at the only advertising agency that exists, that is state, and were rejected, although the limitation was only for the field public.

That is why the promotion of the tournament is done through posters in which you see only the silhouette drawn by the players. There is nothing to what we can encontrársele a sexual side.

"They had the idea (of making the campaign)," confirmed to dpa Larry Scott, president of the WTA, which allowed on the most visible of the Khalifa Tennis Center, scene of the contest, was displayed only silhouettes in shades of purple and not the images of their stars in skirts slim.

Some newspapers went further: just a few days ago, and finished with Ramadan, both the "The Peninsula", written in English-like "Alarab"-written in Arabic-modified press announcements, which do show the girls Dressed in tennis, painted using a computer or fits sporting black mesh to cover their thighs.

For the city, women walk with their large black robes to cover their ankles and heads. Some carried their faces uncovered, others leave their eyes and see only a minority are completely obscured.

"Those who are covered are more secure and non-Qataris are young: they are more open," says Hassan, a local vendor.