Female Athlete Babes: Ana Ivanovic is Beauty Personified

Overall Hotness: 9/10
Face: 9/10
Body: 9/10
Boobs: 8.5/10
Ass: 8.5/10
Personality: 9/10

I had first heard about this hot Serbian tennis player a couple of years called Ana Ivanovic. I didn't really pay too much attention as I was mostly gaga over Maria Sharapova at the time but as Ana started getting really good and was getting on TV, I along with millions of people began noticing. It wasn't really until this past few weeks at the Australian Open when I really began falling for Ana.

Ana is the IT girl. She just has that electricity. You can't quite put your finger on it, but she's anything and everything all in one. More than her exterior beauty is her personality. She's just so incredibly likeable. I don't think she has a mean bone in her body.

Unlike her tennis hottie counterpart, Maria Sharapova, who can at times come across as disingenuous, cold, and superficial. With Ana, you have the feeling that she'd get along with that bum on the street that has no teeth.

Ana has a terrific website. She updates it every single day. Her latest update (Jan 26) is the day after her loss to Maria in the finals of the Australian Open. Here is what it says on Ana's wikipedia page:

Ana Ivanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ана Ивановић, pronounced [ˈana iˈvaːnɔviʨ], listen (help·info) born November 6, 1987, in Belgrade) is a Serbian professional tennis player. She is currently ranked World No. 2 and is the top ranked Serbian player, just in front of compatriot Jelena Janković. At the 2007 French Open, Ivanović reached her first Grand Slam singles final, losing to Justine Henin. She also reached the semifinals of Wimbledon and the Women's Tennis Association Tour Championships in 2007. At the 2008 Australian Open final, she was defeated by Maria Sharapova.

Ivanović's mother, Dragana, a lawyer, attends her daughter's matches all season along, while Ana's father, Miroslav, who is a self-employed businessman attends as many events as he can. Ana has a younger brother Miloš, with whom she loves to play basketball.[1] Other hobbies include shopping, watching movies and playing Sudoku. Ivanović's uncle is a former footballer and now a coach. Her inspiration to begin playing was Monica Seles, and she also admires Roger Federer.

On September 8, 2007, Ivanović has become a UNICEF National Ambassador for Serbia, alongside Aleksandar Đorđević and Emir Kusturica. She takes a special interest in the fields of education and child protection. Ivanović visited a primary school in Serbia during her inauguration and said: "I'm also looking forward to going into the classroom and meeting many kids."[2] She is also a fan of football team FK Partizan Belgrade.

Ivanović is an offensive baseliner. Her game relies heavily on the power, depth and placement of her forehand strokes, producing lots of winners through penetrating, flat shots, with the occasional spice of topspin. Her net play is not used as often, but her volleys are generally well executed, as are her drop shots. Her two-handed backhand is solid, but given sufficient time, she usually reverts to an inside-out forehand or a one-handed slice backhand instead. She has a huge but inconsistent serve, although she has been known for hitting aces on her second serve; she has won one-sided matches with a first serve percentage of below 40% but makes it up through her well-timed aces. In spite of her height Ivanović has good court coverage and has been noticeably working on her fitness, which has highly improved her movement around the court. Ivanović often describes her own playing as "point by point", a mindset that has provided memorable comebacks in matches that seemed to be lost. On the other hand, her performances suffer with ups and downs on her level of playing from one match to another, and not rarely on the same one. Ivanović also tends to show difficulty in adapting and changing her strategy when not in control of the game. Overall, her style is suitable for all surfaces; Ivanović, however, prefers to play on clay courts. This is probably due to clay courts being the slowest of those played on each year, which allows her more time to reach shots from her opponents and aim up an attacking groundstroke of her own. Although it is harder to hit through opponents on clay due to the tendency of the ball to hold up off the surface, Ivanović has the necessary power to overcome a great deal of this disadvantage. As a result, she was able to use this to great effect during her run to the 2007 Roland Garros final.

Ivanović at the beginning of her professional career was endorsed by Nike but at the beginning of 2006 she switched to rival Adidas which is her current apparel and shoe endorser. She started with the Wilson Htour, then upgraded to the ntour then to the nTour Two before switching to the nBlade. At the beginning of 2008 Ivanovic is using the Yonex RQiS Tour 1.

Ivanović picked up a racket at the age of 5 after watching Monica Seles, a fellow Yugoslavian/Serbian, at Roland Garros on television. She started her promising career at the age of 5, after memorizing the number of a local tennis clinic from an ad on TV. During her training she encountered the NATO bombings in 1999, where she would have to train in the morning to avoid them. Later on she admitted she would train in an abandoned swimming pool in the winter, as there were no other facilities. When she was 15, Ivanović spent four hours in the locker room crying after a defeat - the first that her new manager had watched - because she thought that Dan Holzmann was going to drop her because she felt that she wasn't good enough to become a professional tennis player. He has stayed as her manager to this day.

Ivanović is friends with former doubles partner Maria Kirilenko, as well as other professional tennis players Daniela Hantuchová, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Sanja Ančić and fellow Serbians Novak Đoković and Janko Tipsarević.

This is a cool advertisement with Ana,

This was a feature done by Australian TV at last year's Open,

All these pictures were taken from Ana's website,