Ana Ivanovic Biography
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Ana Ivanovic (born November 6, 1987, in Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia) is a former world no. 1 Serbian tennis player. As of November 7, 2011, Ana Ivanovic is ranked 22th on the WTA rankings. Ana Ivanovic beat Dinara Safina to win the 2008 French Open and was the runner-up in singles at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open. Competing as a professional since 2003, Ana Ivanovic has won 11 WTA Tour singles titles. When on form, Ana Ivanovic is known for her aggressive style of play.
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Ana Ivanovic's mother Dragana (Драгана), a lawyer, supports her daughter during most of her matches. Her father Miroslav (Мирослав), a self-employed businessman, attends as many events as he possibly can. Ana has a younger brother, Miloš (Милош), with whom she loves to play basketball.
Personal life
Aside from her tennis career, Ana Ivanovic also studies finance at a university in Belgrade and Spanish in her spare time. Her inspiration to begin playing was Monika Seleš, who at that time played for Yugoslavia.
On September 8, 2007, Ana Ivanovic became a UNICEF National Ambassador for Serbia, alongside Aleksandar Đorđević, Jelena Janković and Emir Kusturica. She takes a special interest in the fields of education and child protection. Ana Ivanovic visited a primary school in Serbia during her inauguration and said that she is "also looking forward to going into the classroom and meeting many kids."
Career
Ana Ivanovic picked up a racket at the age of five after watching Monica Seles, a fellow Yugoslav, on television. She started her career after memorizing the number of a local tennis clinic from an advertisement. At the time, she was forced to train during the morning to avoid bombardments. Later, she admitted that she trained in an abandoned swimming pool in the winter, as there were no other facilities. When she was 15, Ana Ivanovic spent four hours in the locker room crying after a defeat – the first that her new manager had watched. She thought that Dan Holzmann, the manager in question, would drop her, thinking that she was not good enough to become a professional tennis player. He has stayed her manager to this day.
2004
Ana Ivanovic reached the final of the Junior Wimbledon tournament in 2004, losing to Kateryna Bondarenko. In 2004, she went 26–0 on the ITF circuit, and won all five events that she entered, two of them as a qualifier. As a qualifier in Zürich, she overcame a 5–1 third set deficit along with two match points to defeat world no. 29 Tatiana Golovin 7-5,6-7(2),7-6(3). She then debuted in the qualifying draw of a Grand Slam at the US Open, where she was defeated by Lioudmila Skavronskaia after winning the first set 6–1 and having two match points on 5-4 in 3rd set. She eventually fell to a close loss, 6–1, 4–6, 5–7. Her first professional breakthrough occurred in the next match, when she took Venus Williams to two tiebreaks, before losing in straight sets in the second round of the Zürich Open. She had held several set points in both sets. She followed up her run in Zürich with a quarterfinal showing at Luxembourg the next week.
2005
Ana Ivanovic won her first career singles title, as a qualifier, in Canberra, Australia, after defeating Melinda Czink in the final. Her ranking continued to rise after wins over Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3,3-6,7-5 in Miami, Nadia Petrova 6-4,7-5 also in Miami 6-2,6-4 , and Vera Zvonareva in Warsaw, all of whom were top-10 players. Ivanović lost to Amélie Mauresmo at the Australian Open in third round, Doha in third round after Ivanović had 6-2,2-0 lead and in 3rd set had three break points for 5-2 lead, and Miami Masters in quartefinals, before defeating her in the third round of the French Open 6-4,3-6,6-3. At that stage in her career it was arguably her biggest win. Ana Ivanovic eventually reached the quarterfinals of that tournament, where she lost to Petrova. Later in the year, Ivanović reached the semifinals of the Zurich Open and Generali Ladies Linz, losing to Patty Schnyder in both tournaments. Ana Ivanovic finished the year as no. 16.
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Ana Ivanovic started the year at the Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia with fellow Serbian Novak Djoković, where the pair narrowly missed the final. To start off her WTA year, she played at the Medibank International in Sydney where she once again defeated Amélie Mauresmo, this time in straight sets 6-2,7-5, before falling to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the quarterfinals 7-6(3),6-3 after having 5-2 lead in first set. A week later, she lost to Samantha Stosur in the second round of the Australian Open 6-3,7-5.
Ana Ivanovic made it to the third round of the French Open, before losing to Anastasia Myskina. She progressed to the fourth round at Wimbledon, but lost to eventual champion and world no. 1 Amélie Mauresmo in straight sets 7-5,6-3 after beating no. 14 seed Dinara Safina 3-6,7-6(3),6-1.
Ana Ivanovic made her breakthrough in August when she defeated former world no. 1 Martina Hingis 6-2,6-3 in the final of the Rogers Cup in Montreal before beating Jelena Janković 6-1,6-2, no. 14 seed Katarina Srebotnik 6-4,6-4 and top 10 player Dinara Safina 6-1,6-4. This ultimately led to her winning the United States Open Series, ahead of Kim Clijsters and Maria Sharapova. At the US Open, she lost to Serena Williams.
Ana Ivanovic also played nine tournaments in doubles in 2006, teaming up with Maria Kirilenko and Sania Mirza. Ana Ivanovic and Kirilenko made two semifinals and a final; they ended the year at number 17 in the annual race to the Championships. Ana Ivanovic finished the year ranked world no. 14 in singles and world no. 51 in doubles.
2007
Ana Ivanovic started the year at the 2007 Medibank International were she beat no. 5 Nadia Petrova but lost to Nicole Vaidišová.Seeded 13th at the Australian Open, Ana Ivanovic defeated Agnieszka Radwańska 6-2,3-6,6-2 in the second round, but lost in the third round to Vera Zvonareva after she missed some opportunities. Immediately after this tournament, she announced that she had split with her coach David Taylor. Ana Ivanovic then played 2007 Toray Pan Pacific Open, in quatrefinals she beat no. 10 Jelena Janković 3-6,6-4,6-2, in semifinals she beat No. 1 Maria Sharapova 6-1, 0-1 when Sharapova was forced to retire, but lost in Final to Martina Hingis 4-6, 2-6.
At the Tier I Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California, she was defeated in the fourth round by Sybille Bammer 6-7(6),6-0,3-6 after easy wins over Vania King and Alicia Molik. Yaroslava Shvedova then defeated Ana Ivanovic in the second round of the Tier I Sony Ericsson Open in Miami Masters.Then she played tournament in Amelia Island were she lost in semifinals to no. 19 and eventual champion Tatiana Golovin 4-6,6-3,4-6 after Ana Ivanovic had break points in all games of serve for Tatiana.It was first win for her in seven meetings.After she lost in semifinals she won no. 9 Jelena Janković 7-5,6-3 in quartefinals.
Ana Ivanovic then returned to Europe to play two clay-court tournaments in preparation for the French Open. In Berlin at the Qatar Telecom German Open, she won her first Tier I clay court title, defeating world no. 4 Svetlana Kuznetsova in the final 3-6,6-4,7-6(4).It was very long and interesting match, in first set Kuznetsova was leading 5-1 and she officially won the set 6-3.In second set Ivanović had 2-0 lead, after Kuznetsova equalized on 2-2, Ivanović again broke for 4-2, but Kuznetsova equalized on 4-4 and Ivanović officially won the second set 6-4.Third set was the longest one, Kuznetsova first broke Ana's serve for 2-1 lead, but Ana was strong and pulled for 5-3, even then the match wasn't finished because Ivanović needed tie-break to finally finish the match.However, Ana Ivanovic injured her ankle during the final, which forced her to withdraw from the Tier I Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome. The win in Berlin propelled her into the top ten of the WTA Rankings for the first time, at world no. 8.
Ana Ivanovic had a six-match winning streak heading into the French Open and increased this streak to twelve by reaching the final. She won her first three matches with the loss of only nine games. In her second career quarterfinal at Roland Garros, Ivanović defeated world no. 3 Kuznetsova 6-0,3-6,6-1, and she then beat world no. 2 Sharapova 6-2,6-1 in less than one hour in the semifinals. In the final, Ivanović attempted to win her first Grand Slam singles title and complete a sweep of the top three players in the world. However, world no. 1 and two-time defending champion Justine Henin won the match. Later on, Ivanović admitted that the idea of being in the final of a Grand Slam tournament had overwhelmed her.
At Wimbledon, Ana Ivanovic defeated world no. 9 Nadia Petrova 6-1,2-6,6-4 in the fourth round, and saved three match points to defeat Nicole Vaidišová 4-6,6-2,7-5 in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals, three-time former Wimbledon champion Venus Williams defeated Ivanović 6-2,6-4 after Ana Ivanovic had a break of lead in the second set.
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In Ana Ivanovic's first three matches at the US Open, she lost only 10 games. Venus Williams then eliminated her for the second consecutive time at a Grand Slam tournament.
Ana Ivanovic returned to Europe for three tournaments. At the Tier II Luxembourg Championships, Ivanović qualified for the Sony Ericsson Championships by virtue of reaching the semifinals. In the final, Ivanović rallied from 6–3, 3–0 down to defeat Daniela Hantuchová 3-6,6-4,6-3 in two hours and 25 minutes. This was her fifth career title.In quatrefinals and semiinals she beat Tatiana Golovin 6-1,6-2 and Vera Zvonareva 6-4,6-2.
To end the year, Ana Ivanovic played the Sony Ericsson Championships in Madrid, Spain. Seeded fourth and assigned to the Red Group during the round-robin phase, she defeated world no. 2 Kuznetsova 6-1,4-6,7-5, after she had 4-0 and three break points for 5-0 in third set she eventually won the set 7-5 and Hantuchová in straight sets 6-2,7-6.She qualified to semifinals and then Sharapova defeated Ivanović in the final match of the round-robin stage. Because she finished second in her group, Ana Ivanovic played world no. 1 Henin in the semifinals, in which the Belgian won 6-4,6-4.
Ana Ivanovic finished the year with a career-high ranking of world no. 4.
2008
Ana Ivanovic started the year at the 2008 Medibank International were she beat top 20 player, but she lost to world no. 1 Henin 2-6,6-2,4-6 after had break points on 4-4 in third set.It was great chance for Ivanović to win Henin for the first time.As the fourth seed at the Australian Open, Ivanović defeated top 20 players Katarina Srebotnik 6-3,6-4 and Caroline Wozniacki 6-1,7-6(2) and 8th seed Venus Williams for the first time in her career by beating her in straight sets 7-6(3),6-4. Later in the semifinals, she was down 0–6, 0–2 before she defeated Daniela Hantuchová 0-6,6-3,6-4. She lost to 5th seed Maria Sharapova 7-5,6-3 in the final. Her ranking rose to world no. 2 as a result of her performance at the tournament, the highest of her career at the time.
In Serbia's Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I D round-robin tie against Poland in Budapest, Ivanović defeated Urszula Radwańska in straight sets 6-3,6-1. In Serbia's second round-robin tie against Romania, Ana Ivanovic defeated Monica Niculescu 5-7,6-4,7-5 and then teamed with Jelena Janković to win the deciding doubles rubber against the Romanian team 2-6,7-6(2),7-6(4) after Janković lost her singles match. In the promotion playoff, Ana Ivanovic beat Renée Reinhard 6-2,3-6,6-3 of the Netherlands, as Serbia advanced to the World Group II playoffs in April.
In Doha and Dubai she finished in quatrefinals after she withdrew from Doha, and lost in Dubai to Elena Dementieva 7-5,3-6,3-6 after having 3-1 lead and 2 game points in second set before easy win over top 10 player Nicole Vaidisova 6-4,6-0 in second round.
In March, Ana Ivanovic defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova in the final of the Tier I Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California 6-4,6-3 before wins over top 15 players Francesca Schiavone 2-6,7-5,6-2 and Vera Zvonareva 6-1,6-4 and world no. 4 Jelena Janković 7-6(3),6-3 in the semifinals.In first set against Jelena she had 5-3 lead and even some set points on 6-5, but eventually won the set 7-6. She was very tired after the tournament so she lost to Lindsay Davenport in the third round of the Tier I Sony Ericsson Open in Miami the following week.
Ana Ivanovic started her clay-court season as defending champion at the Qatar Telecom German Open in Berlin. She lost to Elena Dementieva 6-2,7-5 for the fourth time in four meetings in the semifinals after beating no. 9 Ágnes Szávay 3-6,6-4,6-3 in the quatrefinals. Ana Ivanovic was seeded second at the 2008 French Open, where she defeated Petra Cetkovská 6-0,6-0 in fourth round, world no. 10 Patty Schnyder 6-3,6-2 in quatrefinals and world no. 3 Jelena Janković in a thrilling encounter in the semifinals 6-4,3-6,6-4. First Jelena had 4-2 lead, then Ivanović was very near to winning match after 6-4,3-1 lead, then Janković had 4-6,6-3,3-1 after Ana came for 3-3 in third set and again lost her serve, but was able to win the set 6-4.The win guaranteed Ana Ivanovic's ascent to world no. 1 the following week, regardless of her performance in the final. Nonetheless, she went on to defeat Dinara Safina in straight sets 6-4,6-3 in the final, winning her first (and to date, only) Grand Slam singles title.
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Ana Ivanovic started the summer hard-court season with a third-round loss at the Rogers Cup in Montreal to Tamira Paszek 2-6,6-1,2-6. Ivanović, bothered by a sore thumb sustained during practice two weeks before Montreal, withdrew from the East West Bank Classic in Los Angeles. Her withdrawal saw her lose the world no. 1 ranking to Janković. The thumb injury also caused her to withdraw from the Summer Olympics in Beijing, which Ivanović described as "one of the worst moments of her career." Ivanović, having reclaimed her world no. 1 ranking on August 18, was the top-seeded player at the US Open, but lost to Julie Coin 3-6,6-4,3-6 in very exciting and high-quality second round match. The loss was the earliest defeat of the top-seeded player at the US Open since the 1973 tournament.
In her first match after the US Open, at the Tier I Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, Ivanović was defeated by Nadia Petrova 1-6,6-1,2-6 of Russia in three sets, bringing her win-loss record since the French Open to 4–4. Ana Ivanovic later told the press that she was "just happy to be back injury-free" and that she needed to "play more matches get back into rhythm." Ivanović then played in Bejing and after two great results she lost to Zheng Jie 6-7(6),6-2,4-6 match after having a break in first and third set and winning 16 more points than her opponent.
Then she came back to Europe to play three more tournaments, first in Moscow where she lost to Dominika Cibulkova 6-2,2-6,7-6(5) after having two match points.In Zurich open she lost in semifinal to Venus Williams 6-4,3-6,4-6 after leading 3-1 in third set before two easy wins over Marion Bartoli 6-2,6-4 and Petra Kvitova 6-1,6-4. Ana Ivanovic played the Generali Ladies Linz in Linz torunament and was the top seed. She won the tournament by crushing top 10 players Vera Zvonareva 6-2,6-1 and Agnieszka Radwańska 6-2,3-6,7-5 in final and semifinal.
At the year-end Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha, Qatar, Ana Ivanovic was seeded fourth. In her first round-robin match, she was defeated by world no. 1 Janković after she won the best point of the year, hot shot. Her next match was against Zvonareva, to whom she also lost in three exciting sets. She withdrew from her final match against Kuznetsova because of a virus.
2009
At the Australian Open, Ana Ivanovic was seeded fifth and won her first two matches in straight sets before losing to 29th seed Russian Alisa Kleybanova in the third round.
Ana Ivanovic took part in Serbia's Fed Cup win in the World Group II tie against Japan. She defeated Ai Sugiyama and Ayumi Morita to help Serbia to a 4–1 win. At the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships, a Premier 5 event, she lost to Serena Williams in the quarterfinals. Around this time, Ivanović began working with her new coach Craig Kardon, after parting with former coach Sven Groeneveld.
At the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California, where she was defending champion, Ivanović advanced to the finals, before losing to Vera Zvonareva. In Miami, Ivanović lost in the third round to Ágnes Szávay. In April, Ana Ivanovic took part in Serbia's Fed Cup World Group Play-offs against Spain. She defeated Anabel Medina Garrigues to help Serbia gain promotion to the World Group with a 4–0 win.
At the 2009 French Open, Ana Ivanovic won her first three matches in straight sets, before losing to Victoria Azarenka in the fourth round. This early loss caused Ana Ivanovic to fall out of the top ten for the first time since May, 2007. After the loss, Ivanović announced that she would cease working with Craig Kardon, and would be participating in the adidas Player Development Program, where she would be coached by Sven Groeneveld, Darren Cahill, Mats Merkel and Gil Reyes.
At Wimbledon, Ana Ivanovic was seeded 13th. She faced two match points against Lucie Hradecká, before prevailing. She then took down Sara Errani and 18th seed Samantha Stosur in the second and third rounds in straight sets, before retiring against third seed and eventual finalist Venus Williams.
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At the Premier 5 Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, Ivanović suffered her third successive defeat by losing to Lucie Šafářová in the first round. Citing an upper respiratory tract infection, Ivanović pulled out of the China Open and announced on her website that she was taking the rest of the year off.
She finished the year with a 24–14 match record, her worst since she turned pro, and did not win any titles. Ana Ivanovic only reached three quarterfinals, one semifinal, and one final, and only won back-to-back matches six times. Ana Ivanovic ended the year ranked 21, the first time she had been ranked outside the top 20 since July 2005.
2010
Ana Ivanovic started the year at the 2010 Brisbane International. Seeded third, Ivanović reached her first semifinal since Indian Wells in 2009. She eventually bowed out to wildcard Justine Henin in Henin's first tournament since her return from retirement. Ivanović was seeded 20th at the 2010 Australian Open, but lost to Gisela Dulko in the second round in three sets.
Ana Ivanovic then participated in the opening round of the 2010 Fed Cup in Serbia's tie against Russia. She went 0–2 in her singles matches, losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova and Alisa Kleybanova, both in straight sets. She partnered with Jelena Janković in the deciding doubles match, but they fell to Kuznetsova and Kleybanova. Ivanović then withdrew from Dubai with shoulder tendinitis.
Ana Ivanovic announced that she would be working with Steffi Graf's former coach Heinz Gunthardt on a trial basis during the spring North American hard-court season, suspending her relationship with the Adidas Player Development Program indefinitely. In her first match as Gunthardt's pupil, a one-set semifinal against reigning US Open champion Kim Clijsters in the 2010 Billie Jean King Cup at Madison Square Garden, Ivanović lost in a tiebreak, despite having held match point. After the match, Ana Ivanovic stated that she had noted improvements in her game.
Despite her improvements reflected in the BNP Paribas Showdown, Ivanović lost her opening match to world no. 63 Anastasija Sevastova at the 2010 BNP Paribas Open. Never before had she suffered four consecutive losses. By also losing a huge number of ranking points, Ana Ivanovic dropped out of the top 50 for the first time since March 2005. Seeded 25th at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, Ana Ivanovic won her first match since the Australian Open, but then lost to Agnieszka Radwańska in the third round.
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Unseeded at the 2010 Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Ana Ivanovic had her best week of tennis in nearly two years. She stunned top-10 players Victoria Azarenka and Elena Dementieva, and top-20 player Nadia Petrova, all in straight sets, before losing to eventual champion María José Martínez Sánchez in the semifinals. She was granted a wildcard into the Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open in Madrid, and received a bye in the first round due to her semifinal appearance at the Italian Open. She was the first unseeded wildcard to receive a first-round bye in the history of the WTA Tour. She lost in the second round to Jelena Janković, despite leading by a set and a break. Ana Ivanovic entered the 2010 French Open unseeded at a Grand Slam for the first time since 2005. She fell to Alisa Kleybanova in the second round.
In the UNICEF Open, Ivanović fell to seventh-seeded German Andrea Petkovic in the second round. Ana Ivanovic was defeated in the first round of Wimbledon by 13th seed Shahar Pe'er, and as a consequence saw her ranking drop to world no. 64.
In the opening round of the Bank of the West Classic at Stanford University, Ivanović avenged her 2009 Australian Open and 2010 French Open defeats to Alisa Kleybanova, before losing in the next round to Marion Bartoli in straight sets. At the Mercury Insurance Open, Ivanović once again suffered a first-round loss to Shahar Pe'er. At the Western and Southern Financial Group Women's Open, she rallied from a set and a break down to beat Victoria Azarenka in three sets. Ana Ivanovic retired against Kim Clijsters in the semifinals due to a foot injury. Her ranking dramatically improved to world no. 39. The injury caused her to withdraw from the Pilot Pen tournament held in New Haven.
Ana Ivanovic went into the Hansol Korea Open as the seventh seed, but lost her opener to Vera Dushevina. Ivanović then defeated Kleybanova, the Korea Open champion, in the first round of the 2010 Toray Pan Pacific Open, before again losing to Bartoli in straight sets. Ivanović avenged her losses to Bartoli at the 2010 China Open, beating the Frenchwoman in straight sets in the first round. On her way to the quarterfinals, Ivanović scored another top-10 victory by defeating Elena Dementieva for the second time in 2010. Ana fell to world no. 1 Caroline Wozniacki. By virtue of her quarterfinal finish, Ana Ivanovic re-entered the top 30.
Entering the 2010 Generali Ladies Linz as a wildcard, Ana Ivanovic defeated Patty Schnyder in the finals, 6–1, 6–2, in just 47 minutes of play. Ana headed to the 2010 BGL Luxembourg Open as the fourth seed, where she breezed right through to the quarterfinals, before falling to eighth seed Julia Görges. Meanwhile, after making the quarterfinals of the doubles tournament with Yanina Wickmayer, they fell to fourth seeds Lucie Hradecká and Renata Voráčová.
Ana Ivanovic revealed that she had ended her coaching relationship with Swiss star Heinz Gunthardt, because Gunthardt mixed his interest in tennis with being a Swiss television commentator.
By virtue of her title in Linz, Ivanović qualified for the last tournament of the season, the 2010 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions. She made it to the finals, where she defeated Russian Alisa Kleybanova for her tenth career title and her second of the year. With her title in Bali, Ivanović achieved a year-end ranking of no. 17, her fifth finish in the top 20.
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Ana Ivanovic started the year with the 2011 Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia. She competed along with Novak Djokovic under the Serbian flag. Ana and Djokovic swept their first two ties against Kazakhstan and Australia, 3–0, but fell against Belgium, 1–2. They did qualify for the final, but due to an injury sustained during Ivanović's match against Justine Henin, Serbia was forced to withdraw. Along with the Hopman Cup, Ivanović also withdrew from Sydney.
Ana Ivanovic was seeded 19th at the 2011 Australian Open, where she lost to Ekaterina Makarova, 6–3, 4–6, 8–10, in the first round in 2 hours and 47 minutes. Ivanović then played in the PTT Pattaya Open, where she fell in the quarterfinals to fifth seed Roberta Vinci in straight sets, 5–7, 3–6. She headed to Dubai as the 14th seed, where she lost against Patty Schnyder in three sets. She stated the loss was in part because of the abdominal injury sustained in the beginning of the season, and she subsequently withdrew from Doha.
Ana Ivanovic then headed to Indian Wells, where she was seeded 19th. After losing her doubles match with Petkovic in a tight three-setter, she lost to Marion Bartoli in the quarterfinals.
Ana Ivanovic then played in the 2011 Sony Ericsson Open, where she was seeded 19th. She lost against defending champion Kim Clijsters in her fourth-round match, despite having a 5–1, 40–0 lead in the third set and having five match points. She partnered with Petkovic in doubles where, after scoring a first round win, they stunned sixth-seeded Benesova and Zahlavova Strycova. They withdrew from the doubles competition after Ivanovic lost to Clijsters.
Ana Ivanovic withdrew from the 2011 Andalucia Tennis Experience tournament to better prepare herself for the upcoming clay-court season. However, she joined Serbia in the 2011 Fed Cup event. Ivanović scored a point for Serbia by beating Daniela Hantuchová in straight sets, 6–2, 6–4, but had to retire in her next match against Dominika Cibulková, as she renewed an injury from the beginning of the season. Despite that, Serbia beat Slovakia in the deciding doubles rubber, 3–2.
Ana Ivanovic's next scheduled tournament was the 2011 Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open, where she was seeded 15th. After her early exit in the first round, losing to Bethanie Mattek-Sands, Ivanović headed to 2011 Internazionali BNL d'Italia, where she was 13th seed. Ivanović lost in the second round to Yanina Wickmayer in three sets. Ivanović withdrew from Strasbourg due to a minor wrist injury. Ana then lost to Johanna Larsson, 6–7(3), 6–0, 2–6, in her first round match at the 2011 French Open. Ivanović had a slight resurgence in Birmingham, reaching the semifinals, but lost to Daniela Hantuchová in three sets. Ivanović lost to Venus Williams in the second round at Eastbourne.
Ana Ivanovic beat Melanie Oudin in the first round at Wimbledon in straight sets. After her win over Eleni Daniilidou in the second round, also in straight sets, she fell in the third round. She was beaten by Petra Cetkovská who had beaten 13th seed Agnieszka Radwańska in round two. After Wimbledon, Ivanovic hired Nigel Sears, the head of women's tennis at the Lawn Tennis Association, as her coach. In Stanford, Ivanović fell against Japan's Ayumi Morita in her opening match, 3–6, 5–7. As the fifth seed in Carlsbad, she received a first-round bye. In round two, she avenged the previous week's loss by beating Ayumi Morita, 6–1, 7–65, despite trailing 0–5 in the second set. In the third round, Ana cruised past Alberta Brianti of Italy, 6–1, 6–2. Ivanović then took on Shuai Peng in the quarterfinals and won in two sets. In the semifinals, she lost against top seed Vera Zvonareva, 7–5, 4–6, 4–6. After losing to Roberta Vinci in her third round match at the Roger's Cup, Ana, who teamed with Andrea Petkovic, had to withdraw in the middle of her doubles match while playing against fourth-seeded Azarenka and Kirilenko. At the US Open, Ivanović defeated Ksenia Pervak of Russia in the first round. She received a walkover from Petra Cetkovská and advanced to the third round. In the third round, Ivanovic defeated Sloane Stephens, 6–3, 6–4, to advance to the fourth round, where she faced Serena Williams, losing in straight sets 3–6, 4–6, in just 74 minutes. She also played alongside fellow countryman Nenad Zimonjic in the mixed doubles competition for the first time, but fell against Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Yung-jan Chan, 3–6, 4–6.
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At the China Open Ana Ivanovic defeated Kimiko Date Krumm and Svetlana Kuznetsova in straights to reach the third round, where she beat third seed and world no. 4 Vera Zvonareva, 6–2, 6–1. She then faced Agnieszka Radwańska in the quarter-finals. She lost the first set 3–6 and was down 2–3 when she had to retire because of a back injury. Ana Ivanovic received a wild card to play in the 2011 Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions, which she won last year. In her first round she played Italy's Roberta Vinci and defeated her 6–3 6–3. In the semi-finals she beat Russian Nadia Petrova 6-1, 7-5. In the final, she captured her 11 WTA title by beating Anabel Medina Garrigues in straights sets, 6–3, 6–0. This is the first time she had ever defended her title in a tournament.
