Ana ponovo stala u drugom kolu

Definitivno nije u formi. Morace da poradi malo vise i da pod hitno promeni trenera jer ovakvom igrom moze postati prosecna igracica koja nikada nece postici velike uspehe. Takodje neophodno je da u timu obavezno poseduje psihijatra koji bi je pripremio za mec. Pocela je da gubi od igracica koje su slabije rangirane od nje. Ne znam, gubim polako interes za tenis iako ga mnogo volim kada i Ana i Jelena gube u prva dva kola. Moraju mnogo vise da treniraju i moraju obe da nadju pod hitno nove trenere. Nadam se boljem u nastavku sezone.

ko je ova riba na slici?

Mlada je jos, mislim....jos je mlada, polako...ima vremena...grrrrrrrrrr

cero nisi ti za taj sport, mani se te rabote

Na slici je Marija Kirilenko i preslatka je!

Marije Kirilenko je ubedljivo najzgodnija teniserka!

Na slici je upravo Marija Kirilenko, jedna od najlepsih sportiskinja danasnjice. Ani najbolje zelje, mozda bi trebalo da se malo vise odmara i pazljivije bira turnire na kojima ce igrati -- ovako sindrom Jelena Dokic izgleda neminovan...

Poraz od Samante Stosur nije bio sokantan, vec ocekivan. Kao i ovaj, kao i svi naredni.
Jedino sto je sokantno to je da je uopste uspela da dodje i do drugog kola.
Pih, nije vredno komentara!

Mislim da je"dida" na zalost u pravu.Vec skoro godinu dana je opravdavamo kao mlada je, ima vremena itd. Cim je ona pocela da pozira sa golim ledjima od sporta nema nista.

A ti Dido pricas gluposti. To sto Ana i ostale devojke igraju je atomski tenis - hiljade sati i vise godina opasnog treniranja treba da bi se doslo na taj nivo. Kad bi svi mladi u Srbiji postigli samo jednu desetinu onoga sto ove devojke daju, mi bismo bili Amerika na kvadrat. Bolje cuti.

Mislim da postoji velika mogućnost da Ana prođe kao Kurnjikova, više je ima u novinama nego na terenu. Talenat, pogotovo u tenisu nije sve.

...kao sto rekoh, jedna ispada u prvom, druga u sledecem kolu, i TO JE SVE od naseg tenisa.
"Mlada je jos" to je moglo da prodje pre 365 dana...a do sada je ona vec trebala da pokaze koliko se na nju moze racunati, tj. trebalo je da iza sebe ima bar 3-4 osvojena turnira i mnogo vise pobeda u kontinuitetu, pa bi se tek onda moglo govoriti o buducoj sampionki...ovako, ostaje nam da se radujemo svaka tri meseca kada jedna od ove dve devojke uspe da pobedi neko veliko ime, a vec u sledecem kolu, umesto da "dodaju gas" one po pravilu "pregore"...E, vidite, to nisu odlike "buducih sampiona" vec, na zalost" sasvim prosecnih igraca...Da li je to u glavama (ili gde ???) to vec ne mogu da kazem ali , na zalost jos cemo da se nacekamo dok ne dobijemo nekog istinskog sampiona u tenisu...Ponavljam, (od juce) vec i ovo sto su do sada uradile je veoma dobro s obzirom da niko ne stoji iza njih (sem navijaca)...
...ziveli !!!

Trebalo bi verovatno da trenira bolje,kvalitetnije,a ne vise...ako treba da promeni trenera,neka..

pa ljudi ako hoce neko da bude medju najboljim mora i da trci malo a ne samo sve poene da osvaja na snagu............. sve dok bude imala ovaj stav igre nikad od nje nece biti nista.............

Ovo je tipican srpski slucaj, ali ne govorim o Ani Ivanovic, vec o komentarima u stilu od ljubavi do mrznje samo korak vas deli. Kada je nedavno pobedila Ameli Moresmo, pobednicu Australian Opena, to je bilo vece prijatno iznenadjenje, nego sto je neprijatno iznenadjenje poraz od sve bolje Marije Kirilenko, kojoj predvidjaju skori prodor u svetski vrh.
Anin plasman je veoma dobar za zemlju kao sto smo mi, tako da ne treba preterivati sa komentarima - Mani se cero tog sporta. "Cera ce da u zivotu zaradi prilicno velike pare, bice njoj dobro, nisu joj potrebni vasi saveti"
Uz to odmah se povlaci paralela sa Jelenom Dokic, a slicne su u tome sto obe imaju problema sa viskom kilograma, sto je skratilo karijeru i Monike Seles. Lako je teniserkama koje su gradjene kao Stefi Graf, ili danas Marija Sarapova, a tesko krupnijim devojkama kao sto je Serena Vilijams. Ali sta da se radi.
Neka Ana sto duze ostane medju prvih 20, ako moze da se probije medju 10 to bi bilo fenomenalno, ona ima 18 godina i treba prema njoj biti mnogo tolerantniji. Osim toga ne zaboravite da devojke bar dva tri dana mesecno igraju znatno ispod svojih mogucnosti, zna se i zasto. Spustite malo vase kriterijume, podjite od
sebe.

Previse rano je krenula sa komercijalizacijom. Jedna takva Ana (Kurnjikova) je vec skoro pala u teniski zaborav, ali je ima na reklamama, parfemima, u novinama, tabloidima, itd. Ana Ivanovic treba da se odluci o promeni nacina treninga i nacina vodjenja svoje karijere. Naravno, ukoliko zeli da bude ono sto je najavljivala u svom briljantnom jurisu na teniski vrh, ili ce biti samo lepotica belog sporta. Kriza rezultata je neminovnost u odredjenim trenucima karijere svakog sportiste, od njega samog zavisi kako ce iz nje izaci. Ana, ozbiljan trener, ozbiljan rad, ozbiljan menadzer, manje uloga foto-modela po web-sajtovima. Uzmi Jelenu Dokic kao primer za sunovrat.

@Dragan
Nije Moniki Seles visak kilograma skratio karijeru, vec noz u ledja.

Stvarno ne shvatam ove komentatore koji uporno govore da je Ana jos mlada!!! Po ovome sto je do sada pokazala, Ana jos nije ni pocela da igra tenis!!! Recite mi molim vas, koja je velika igracica ispadala u prvom ili drugom kolu svo vreme, godinama??? Shvatite vec jednom da ni Ana ni Jelena nikad u zivotu nece biti nikad nesto vise od prosecnih igracica!!! I ne shvatam kako moze neka cura da trenira godinama, neko rece hiljade sati opasnog treniranja, a da ima cak 73 kilograma!!!

Malo sam bio vredan pa sam analizirao listu prvih 20 igračica. I našao sam da evropske države poput Holandije, Norveške, Švedske, Finske, Poljske ili Austije nemaju ni jednu igračicu među prvih 20. A da, zaboravio sam i Veliku Britaniju i Španiju.
To je samo Evropa. Van Evrope samo SAD imaju igračice među prvih 20. Znači Brazil, Argentina, Meksiko, Kina, Japan, Australija, Afrika, ništa!!!
E toliko poštovana gospodo o sasvim prosečnoj igračici kao što je Ana Ivanović.
I ako neko misli da se do 20-tog mesta u svetu može bez rada, samo sa talentom taj ima veći broj cipela od IQ broja.

Dvojka.

Sve vise sumnjam u nju! Definitivno nikad nece biti u prvih 5!Bice ona dobra igracica osvojice i solidno turnira ali nikada nece biti ekstra zvijezda. Stvarno mi je zao ipak trebamo biti realni!

Dejanu
Kod Monike Seles sigurno jeste visak kilograma,ono sa nozem to je bio psiholoski problem,jer se ona u bolnici zadrzala dan,dva
ali kada se vratila na teren,imala je veliki problem u kretanju zbog konstitucije i kilograma.Hajde da se osvrnem na Jelenu Dokic
njene krupne kosti mora da nosi velika misicna masa,samo misici i nista drugo.
Voleo bih da Dejan vidi kako danas izgleda Monika Seles sa 33 godine, a moze da vidi veoma cesto Stefi Graf(37 godina),pa da shvati koji je prirodni problem u pitanju.
Ako ste gledali NBA ligu,mnogli ste da primetite kako Redzi Miler sa 39 godina deluje kao deckic,zato sto je vitak i odnos misici-kosti i salo ide u korist misica. Sta mislite da li je Sekil O Nil uopste igrati kosarku sa 39 godina.

Hvala B92 na promociji mog sajta ...

Sto se tice Ane sve sam rekao .... Katastrofa , ovako dalje ne moze ! ! !

Ana ce proci kao i Dokicka jer nema trenera.

Evo jedan Anin intervju (valjda nekom slovenackom mediju) koji malo blize objasnjava stanje u nasem tenisu i uslove u kojima su nastajali , kao igraci, ona i jelena, janko i nole... preuzeto sa
http://www.wtaworld.com/showthread.php?p=7256254#post7256254:
Now the best in Balkans, someday best in the world?
Belgrade born Ana Ivanović was 17 years old, when she beat Amelie Mauresmo on the centre court in last year’s FO. Even the French have fallen in love with this dark-haired teenager, despite her shattering their dreams. Despite her youth she is already one of the most charming girls on the Tour. That is obvious to the leading men of the WTA Tour, who use her image in all of their marketing campaigns. But the teenager is an excellent player first. Last year she ended the year in 16th place after jumping 80 places from the start of the year. She won her first tournament in Canberra. With these achievements she is in the small group of players that we can expect to be in the top 10 very soon. Besides all this she is a very talkative and very well brought up.
You have a very interesting story. How did you get into tennis?
Tennis was my main obsession from early on. I started playing it, when I was 5, before that I was crazy about Monica Seles, who was the world’s best player at the time. None of my relatives could believe that such a small child could be so excited about tennis. Other kids were watching cartoons, but I couldn’t be moved from the TV, when Monica’s matches were on. I kept bugging my parents to take me to a tennis school. I even found a telephone number of one myself, I still don’t know, how I managed to do that. The more people tried to convince me, that I’m too young for it, the more stubborn I got. I finally got my first racquet for my fifth birthday and started playing tennis a few days later at a local club in Belgrade.
You started playing tennis, one of the more expensive sports, right at the time the economic sanctions against the politics of Slobodan Milošević were enforced by the international community. What were your practices like at that time?
It was hard. I don’t really remember the early years. But the worst was in 1999 during the NATO bombings. I was big enough then to be able to compete in some junior tournaments abroad, but we spent most of the time in shelters and any sort of training was out of the question. When the conditions settled down a bit, we felt the consequences of a bad economic situation on our own skin. The conditions for practice were very bad. In winter time we trained in an abandoned pool, that couldn’t have been maintained due to lack of money. We put the carpet on the bottom and made a couple of courts. I was incredibly lucky to be discovered by a Swiss manager at a tournament in Tarbes, he was prepared to finance my career. Without his help I wouldn’t be able to make it as my parents would have never been able to get that much money. My dad, who used to play basketball in the former Yugoslavia’s second division, is an expert in sport and made the right moves all along, but to succeed in tennis you need a lot of money. And we couldn’t even think about anything like this in my family.
What about the others? There are currently some excellent players from Serbia & Montenegro on the WTA and ATP Tour. How was it possible to raise so many good players in such awful conditions?
Yeah, there are a few. And each one of them has their own story. Jelena Janković grew up at the Nick Bolletieri academy in Florida, where she was for free, because of her talent. Novak Djokovic was financed by his dad, who’s an owner of one of the best restaurants in Kopaonik. Janko Tipsarević can thank his dad as well, who raised enough money through connections and acquaintances to enable him quality training.
How did you start your collaboration with Zoltan Kuharski?
Seeing that I had Swiss sponsors, I spent a lot of time there. I met Zoltan there as well, we started seriously working together in 2004.
Pierre Pagannini looks after your fitness preparation, he’s also Roger Federer’s coach. Do you ever practice together?
I would really love to practice with Roger sometimes, because he’s my main role model. But unfortunately our schedules are so different, that we weren’t able even to organize testing together. I meet up with Pierre on regular basis, then I do various tests of my fitness and we come up with a program for my work until the next meeting.
You collaborated with Slovenian Tina Križan a bit last year. Any words on that?
Me and Tina first agreed to play together in doubles, as I was looking for a player to team up with, who was a bit older from which I could learn some things. She gave me a lot of useful advice from her rich experience. Not only on the game of tennis, but on life on the Tour as well. She honestly uncovered secrets, that majority of young players have to discover themselves through trial & error.
What does it mean to you personally to be the best player from former Yugoslavia and Balkans in general?
I always work hard to be the best and I still believe in my head that I will be the number 1 in the world once. But I’m very proud to be the best player in Balkans at the moment, as there are so many talents in sport from this area. When I think about replacing Monica in a way, I’m even prouder of myself. It represents extra motivation for me.
You achieved some wins over top players last year. What do those wins mean to young players?
Having belief in your own capabilities is perhaps the most important factor needed to be successful in sport. Wins over top players help me raise my self-confidence a lot. Maybe that’s the most important thing, as we all work hard all the time to play well. But there are some highpoints in a season that mean even more. When I beat Amelie last year at the FO, I really felt part of the top players in the world. That’s a beautiful feeling.

Dida, Igor, Dragan Bgd su svi u pravu.
U Svajcarskoj, i resto Evrope a da nekazemo US, ima bar 30 igracica skolovanijih i sa vise talenta od Ane Ivanovic.
Rekoh i ranije, ona ima jedan ipo razradjen udarac, psiholoski je slaba, debela je i mislim da i nedovoljno trenira. Ona skuplja sitne parice naokolo, vidite da igra u dublu i singlu, hrani svju familiju time.
Selesova je imala Oca - Boga koji je znao da od nje napravi Nr1 i radi sa njom 6 sati dnevno, Sarapova ima Oca - Boga koji sa njom radi 6 sati dnevno i naredio joj je sta da jede i ne jede. A tatica Ivanovic nije tog kalibra, i mamica Ivanovic nije kako mamica Hingis koja je svaki mig svoje cerke pratila i znala je da naredi da prioritet nije suknjicu spustiti da pokrije guzicu pre svakog servisa nego ubitacno servirati SVAKI servis.
Talent je talent... i samo 5% vredi, a 95% je rad koje su navedene teniserke uradile i postale svetske.

Ana je odlicna igracica, ali, nazalost, ne verujem da ce ikada biti medju prvih pet. Mozda smo svi previse ocekivali od nje? Ne slazem se da je premlada. Setite se gde je Monika Seles bila u njenim godinama? Ipak, mislim da treba i da se zadovoljimo s'tim sto imamo teniserku koja je medju prvih 20 u svetu.Slazem se da je Ana psiholoski slaba, lako se predaje kad joj krene lose, a to nije odlika vrhunskih igraca. Mada, i to moze da se promeni, ako bi radila na tome. Dozivecemo mi jos puno lepih trenutaka sa Anom, ali i razocarenja, jer je ona, jednostavno, takva vrsta igracice, kao i vecina nasih sportista, nazalost.Ipak, volela bih da me ubedi u suprotno i zelim joj mnogo, mnogo srece.
A sto se "skidanja" tice, ma dajte, devojka izgleda fenomenalno, zasto bi to krila?

Definitivno nije u formi. Morace da poradi malo vise i da pod hitno promeni trenera jer ovakvom igrom moze postati prosecna igracica koja nikada nece postici velike uspehe. Takodje neophodno je da u timu obavezno poseduje psihijatra koji bi je pripremio za mec. Pocela je da gubi od igracica koje su slabije rangirane od nje. Ne znam, gubim polako interes za tenis iako ga mnogo volim kada i Ana i Jelena gube u prva dva kola. Moraju mnogo vise da treniraju i moraju obe da nadju pod hitno nove trenere. Nadam se boljem u nastavku sezone.

ko je ova riba na slici?

Mlada je jos, mislim....jos je mlada, polako...ima vremena...grrrrrrrrrr

cero nisi ti za taj sport, mani se te rabote

Na slici je Marija Kirilenko i preslatka je!

Marije Kirilenko je ubedljivo najzgodnija teniserka!

Na slici je upravo Marija Kirilenko, jedna od najlepsih sportiskinja danasnjice. Ani najbolje zelje, mozda bi trebalo da se malo vise odmara i pazljivije bira turnire na kojima ce igrati -- ovako sindrom Jelena Dokic izgleda neminovan...

Poraz od Samante Stosur nije bio sokantan, vec ocekivan. Kao i ovaj, kao i svi naredni.
Jedino sto je sokantno to je da je uopste uspela da dodje i do drugog kola.
Pih, nije vredno komentara!

Mislim da je"dida" na zalost u pravu.Vec skoro godinu dana je opravdavamo kao mlada je, ima vremena itd. Cim je ona pocela da pozira sa golim ledjima od sporta nema nista.

A ti Dido pricas gluposti. To sto Ana i ostale devojke igraju je atomski tenis - hiljade sati i vise godina opasnog treniranja treba da bi se doslo na taj nivo. Kad bi svi mladi u Srbiji postigli samo jednu desetinu onoga sto ove devojke daju, mi bismo bili Amerika na kvadrat. Bolje cuti.

Mislim da postoji velika mogućnost da Ana prođe kao Kurnjikova, više je ima u novinama nego na terenu. Talenat, pogotovo u tenisu nije sve.

...kao sto rekoh, jedna ispada u prvom, druga u sledecem kolu, i TO JE SVE od naseg tenisa.
"Mlada je jos" to je moglo da prodje pre 365 dana...a do sada je ona vec trebala da pokaze koliko se na nju moze racunati, tj. trebalo je da iza sebe ima bar 3-4 osvojena turnira i mnogo vise pobeda u kontinuitetu, pa bi se tek onda moglo govoriti o buducoj sampionki...ovako, ostaje nam da se radujemo svaka tri meseca kada jedna od ove dve devojke uspe da pobedi neko veliko ime, a vec u sledecem kolu, umesto da "dodaju gas" one po pravilu "pregore"...E, vidite, to nisu odlike "buducih sampiona" vec, na zalost" sasvim prosecnih igraca...Da li je to u glavama (ili gde ???) to vec ne mogu da kazem ali , na zalost jos cemo da se nacekamo dok ne dobijemo nekog istinskog sampiona u tenisu...Ponavljam, (od juce) vec i ovo sto su do sada uradile je veoma dobro s obzirom da niko ne stoji iza njih (sem navijaca)...
...ziveli !!!

Trebalo bi verovatno da trenira bolje,kvalitetnije,a ne vise...ako treba da promeni trenera,neka..

pa ljudi ako hoce neko da bude medju najboljim mora i da trci malo a ne samo sve poene da osvaja na snagu............. sve dok bude imala ovaj stav igre nikad od nje nece biti nista.............

Ovo je tipican srpski slucaj, ali ne govorim o Ani Ivanovic, vec o komentarima u stilu od ljubavi do mrznje samo korak vas deli. Kada je nedavno pobedila Ameli Moresmo, pobednicu Australian Opena, to je bilo vece prijatno iznenadjenje, nego sto je neprijatno iznenadjenje poraz od sve bolje Marije Kirilenko, kojoj predvidjaju skori prodor u svetski vrh.
Anin plasman je veoma dobar za zemlju kao sto smo mi, tako da ne treba preterivati sa komentarima - Mani se cero tog sporta. "Cera ce da u zivotu zaradi prilicno velike pare, bice njoj dobro, nisu joj potrebni vasi saveti"
Uz to odmah se povlaci paralela sa Jelenom Dokic, a slicne su u tome sto obe imaju problema sa viskom kilograma, sto je skratilo karijeru i Monike Seles. Lako je teniserkama koje su gradjene kao Stefi Graf, ili danas Marija Sarapova, a tesko krupnijim devojkama kao sto je Serena Vilijams. Ali sta da se radi.
Neka Ana sto duze ostane medju prvih 20, ako moze da se probije medju 10 to bi bilo fenomenalno, ona ima 18 godina i treba prema njoj biti mnogo tolerantniji. Osim toga ne zaboravite da devojke bar dva tri dana mesecno igraju znatno ispod svojih mogucnosti, zna se i zasto. Spustite malo vase kriterijume, podjite od
sebe.

Previse rano je krenula sa komercijalizacijom. Jedna takva Ana (Kurnjikova) je vec skoro pala u teniski zaborav, ali je ima na reklamama, parfemima, u novinama, tabloidima, itd. Ana Ivanovic treba da se odluci o promeni nacina treninga i nacina vodjenja svoje karijere. Naravno, ukoliko zeli da bude ono sto je najavljivala u svom briljantnom jurisu na teniski vrh, ili ce biti samo lepotica belog sporta. Kriza rezultata je neminovnost u odredjenim trenucima karijere svakog sportiste, od njega samog zavisi kako ce iz nje izaci. Ana, ozbiljan trener, ozbiljan rad, ozbiljan menadzer, manje uloga foto-modela po web-sajtovima. Uzmi Jelenu Dokic kao primer za sunovrat.

@Dragan
Nije Moniki Seles visak kilograma skratio karijeru, vec noz u ledja.

Stvarno ne shvatam ove komentatore koji uporno govore da je Ana jos mlada!!! Po ovome sto je do sada pokazala, Ana jos nije ni pocela da igra tenis!!! Recite mi molim vas, koja je velika igracica ispadala u prvom ili drugom kolu svo vreme, godinama??? Shvatite vec jednom da ni Ana ni Jelena nikad u zivotu nece biti nikad nesto vise od prosecnih igracica!!! I ne shvatam kako moze neka cura da trenira godinama, neko rece hiljade sati opasnog treniranja, a da ima cak 73 kilograma!!!

Malo sam bio vredan pa sam analizirao listu prvih 20 igračica. I našao sam da evropske države poput Holandije, Norveške, Švedske, Finske, Poljske ili Austije nemaju ni jednu igračicu među prvih 20. A da, zaboravio sam i Veliku Britaniju i Španiju.
To je samo Evropa. Van Evrope samo SAD imaju igračice među prvih 20. Znači Brazil, Argentina, Meksiko, Kina, Japan, Australija, Afrika, ništa!!!
E toliko poštovana gospodo o sasvim prosečnoj igračici kao što je Ana Ivanović.
I ako neko misli da se do 20-tog mesta u svetu može bez rada, samo sa talentom taj ima veći broj cipela od IQ broja.

Dvojka.

Sve vise sumnjam u nju! Definitivno nikad nece biti u prvih 5!Bice ona dobra igracica osvojice i solidno turnira ali nikada nece biti ekstra zvijezda. Stvarno mi je zao ipak trebamo biti realni!

Dejanu
Kod Monike Seles sigurno jeste visak kilograma,ono sa nozem to je bio psiholoski problem,jer se ona u bolnici zadrzala dan,dva
ali kada se vratila na teren,imala je veliki problem u kretanju zbog konstitucije i kilograma.Hajde da se osvrnem na Jelenu Dokic
njene krupne kosti mora da nosi velika misicna masa,samo misici i nista drugo.
Voleo bih da Dejan vidi kako danas izgleda Monika Seles sa 33 godine, a moze da vidi veoma cesto Stefi Graf(37 godina),pa da shvati koji je prirodni problem u pitanju.
Ako ste gledali NBA ligu,mnogli ste da primetite kako Redzi Miler sa 39 godina deluje kao deckic,zato sto je vitak i odnos misici-kosti i salo ide u korist misica. Sta mislite da li je Sekil O Nil uopste igrati kosarku sa 39 godina.

Hvala B92 na promociji mog sajta ...

Sto se tice Ane sve sam rekao .... Katastrofa , ovako dalje ne moze ! ! !

Ana ce proci kao i Dokicka jer nema trenera.

Evo jedan Anin intervju (valjda nekom slovenackom mediju) koji malo blize objasnjava stanje u nasem tenisu i uslove u kojima su nastajali , kao igraci, ona i jelena, janko i nole... preuzeto sa
http://www.wtaworld.com/showthread.php?p=7256254#post7256254:
Now the best in Balkans, someday best in the world?
Belgrade born Ana Ivanović was 17 years old, when she beat Amelie Mauresmo on the centre court in last year’s FO. Even the French have fallen in love with this dark-haired teenager, despite her shattering their dreams. Despite her youth she is already one of the most charming girls on the Tour. That is obvious to the leading men of the WTA Tour, who use her image in all of their marketing campaigns. But the teenager is an excellent player first. Last year she ended the year in 16th place after jumping 80 places from the start of the year. She won her first tournament in Canberra. With these achievements she is in the small group of players that we can expect to be in the top 10 very soon. Besides all this she is a very talkative and very well brought up.
You have a very interesting story. How did you get into tennis?
Tennis was my main obsession from early on. I started playing it, when I was 5, before that I was crazy about Monica Seles, who was the world’s best player at the time. None of my relatives could believe that such a small child could be so excited about tennis. Other kids were watching cartoons, but I couldn’t be moved from the TV, when Monica’s matches were on. I kept bugging my parents to take me to a tennis school. I even found a telephone number of one myself, I still don’t know, how I managed to do that. The more people tried to convince me, that I’m too young for it, the more stubborn I got. I finally got my first racquet for my fifth birthday and started playing tennis a few days later at a local club in Belgrade.
You started playing tennis, one of the more expensive sports, right at the time the economic sanctions against the politics of Slobodan Milošević were enforced by the international community. What were your practices like at that time?
It was hard. I don’t really remember the early years. But the worst was in 1999 during the NATO bombings. I was big enough then to be able to compete in some junior tournaments abroad, but we spent most of the time in shelters and any sort of training was out of the question. When the conditions settled down a bit, we felt the consequences of a bad economic situation on our own skin. The conditions for practice were very bad. In winter time we trained in an abandoned pool, that couldn’t have been maintained due to lack of money. We put the carpet on the bottom and made a couple of courts. I was incredibly lucky to be discovered by a Swiss manager at a tournament in Tarbes, he was prepared to finance my career. Without his help I wouldn’t be able to make it as my parents would have never been able to get that much money. My dad, who used to play basketball in the former Yugoslavia’s second division, is an expert in sport and made the right moves all along, but to succeed in tennis you need a lot of money. And we couldn’t even think about anything like this in my family.
What about the others? There are currently some excellent players from Serbia & Montenegro on the WTA and ATP Tour. How was it possible to raise so many good players in such awful conditions?
Yeah, there are a few. And each one of them has their own story. Jelena Janković grew up at the Nick Bolletieri academy in Florida, where she was for free, because of her talent. Novak Djokovic was financed by his dad, who’s an owner of one of the best restaurants in Kopaonik. Janko Tipsarević can thank his dad as well, who raised enough money through connections and acquaintances to enable him quality training.
How did you start your collaboration with Zoltan Kuharski?
Seeing that I had Swiss sponsors, I spent a lot of time there. I met Zoltan there as well, we started seriously working together in 2004.
Pierre Pagannini looks after your fitness preparation, he’s also Roger Federer’s coach. Do you ever practice together?
I would really love to practice with Roger sometimes, because he’s my main role model. But unfortunately our schedules are so different, that we weren’t able even to organize testing together. I meet up with Pierre on regular basis, then I do various tests of my fitness and we come up with a program for my work until the next meeting.
You collaborated with Slovenian Tina Križan a bit last year. Any words on that?
Me and Tina first agreed to play together in doubles, as I was looking for a player to team up with, who was a bit older from which I could learn some things. She gave me a lot of useful advice from her rich experience. Not only on the game of tennis, but on life on the Tour as well. She honestly uncovered secrets, that majority of young players have to discover themselves through trial & error.
What does it mean to you personally to be the best player from former Yugoslavia and Balkans in general?
I always work hard to be the best and I still believe in my head that I will be the number 1 in the world once. But I’m very proud to be the best player in Balkans at the moment, as there are so many talents in sport from this area. When I think about replacing Monica in a way, I’m even prouder of myself. It represents extra motivation for me.
You achieved some wins over top players last year. What do those wins mean to young players?
Having belief in your own capabilities is perhaps the most important factor needed to be successful in sport. Wins over top players help me raise my self-confidence a lot. Maybe that’s the most important thing, as we all work hard all the time to play well. But there are some highpoints in a season that mean even more. When I beat Amelie last year at the FO, I really felt part of the top players in the world. That’s a beautiful feeling.

Dida, Igor, Dragan Bgd su svi u pravu.
U Svajcarskoj, i resto Evrope a da nekazemo US, ima bar 30 igracica skolovanijih i sa vise talenta od Ane Ivanovic.
Rekoh i ranije, ona ima jedan ipo razradjen udarac, psiholoski je slaba, debela je i mislim da i nedovoljno trenira. Ona skuplja sitne parice naokolo, vidite da igra u dublu i singlu, hrani svju familiju time.
Selesova je imala Oca - Boga koji je znao da od nje napravi Nr1 i radi sa njom 6 sati dnevno, Sarapova ima Oca - Boga koji sa njom radi 6 sati dnevno i naredio joj je sta da jede i ne jede. A tatica Ivanovic nije tog kalibra, i mamica Ivanovic nije kako mamica Hingis koja je svaki mig svoje cerke pratila i znala je da naredi da prioritet nije suknjicu spustiti da pokrije guzicu pre svakog servisa nego ubitacno servirati SVAKI servis.
Talent je talent... i samo 5% vredi, a 95% je rad koje su navedene teniserke uradile i postale svetske.

Ana je odlicna igracica, ali, nazalost, ne verujem da ce ikada biti medju prvih pet. Mozda smo svi previse ocekivali od nje? Ne slazem se da je premlada. Setite se gde je Monika Seles bila u njenim godinama? Ipak, mislim da treba i da se zadovoljimo s'tim sto imamo teniserku koja je medju prvih 20 u svetu.Slazem se da je Ana psiholoski slaba, lako se predaje kad joj krene lose, a to nije odlika vrhunskih igraca. Mada, i to moze da se promeni, ako bi radila na tome. Dozivecemo mi jos puno lepih trenutaka sa Anom, ali i razocarenja, jer je ona, jednostavno, takva vrsta igracice, kao i vecina nasih sportista, nazalost.Ipak, volela bih da me ubedi u suprotno i zelim joj mnogo, mnogo srece.
A sto se "skidanja" tice, ma dajte, devojka izgleda fenomenalno, zasto bi to krila?