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   NEWS OF  Rogers  Cup

    16.08.2005

    In the first round of tournament  Аnа  beat  Tathiana Garbin from Italy  6:2 7:6(3). Garbin's variety didn't bother young Serbian in the first set as her powerful groundstrokes and serve did the job perfectly. Ivanovic lead 5:3 in the second part of the match, but small concentration lapse happened to her and therefore Italian won 3 games in a row. However Ana won her next service game and clinched the tiebreak easily by 7:3 score.

 Interview after match  -

Questions. Great match today. Can you tell us a little bit about it?

ANA IVANOVIC: Yeah, I think I start the match really good. In the second set, I got a little bit nervous. I was more holding back, and she started to play much better and put me under pressure.
But I'm really happy I could manage to win that match in the end.

Q. Can you tell us about what's next, your next match?

ANA IVANOVIC: Tomorrow I'll play against Bartoli. I'm really looking forward for that match because that's for sure going to be great preparation for the New York. I really enjoy playing here.

Q. You've had a great season so far. Can you tell us a little bit about what your next goals are for this year and next year?

ANA IVANOVIC: Looking back, I'm really happy the way it went. Now, of course, I have much higher goals. But at the moment, I just want to improve my game a little bit more, to play more consistently. Yeah, I think that's the most important thing. Of course, I want to do as best as I can on US Open.

    Ivanovic will next face France's Marion Bartoli (37th number in rating WTA).  

   NEWS OF  Rogers  Cup

    18.08.2005

    In the second round of tournament Rogers Cup Аnа  win  3 hour match against Russia's Marion Bartoli with score 4:6 7:6(5) 7:6(3). 

Matchreport of DuLeafs (from site wtaworld.com) :
I joined her match at 4-6, 4-1 (sorry), coz it was quite busy yesterday. I was really surprised Ana lost the first, so me started to follow her game closely to figure out what the hell was wrong with her. Noticed straight away her serve really sucked. Yes, it was very powerful, but she needed a lot of 2nd serves. Ana’s strokes weren’t like normal as well. It seemed like she needed to focus too much to get the balls in the playing-field, while Bartoli kept on looking for Ana’s weak backhand.

Poor, poor Anci. Her serve was really necking her in the second set, let Bartoli come back to 5-5, if I’m not mistaken. Ana has an amazing talent, but it was somewhere on the other side of the world yesterday. Both players asked just somewhere in the end of the 2nd set for a quick injury time out, couldn’t see what was exactly going on, but it didn’t looked seriously. The tiebreak was very close, but Ana managed to take the first set point at 6-5 and took it to the deciding set. At that moment the match was already two hours underway.

Ana quickly took a 3-0 lead in the final set, even though she didn’t played well. Her groundies still sucked, she was unlucky with some line calls, some balls went out by just an inch as it seems. What I admire about her the most, is her positive attitude on the court, but that was nowhere yesterday. She seemed to be not happy with herself, which I can imagine. Good thing for Anci was that the crowd were mostly supporting her, that must have done her good. Still, Bartoli came back to 3-3. Her serve was a lot better, but still couldn’t took much advantage of it, Bartoli handling them pretty well.

'Off day'- Ana saw the French lady serving for the match at 5-4, but the gods must have had mercy on her, coz she broke back due to some nice forehands down the line. It went to another tiebreak again, where Ana took a solid 6-1 lead to have five match points. Although Bartoli came back to 6-3, Ana didn’t choke again and won this three hour match. She seemed to be really relieved she won when the Serb walked off the court, waving the crowd just a quick hand but showed a big smile. She was really balancing on the edge today, I just hope she learned something of it.

     Ana Ivanovic withdrew from the tournament on Thursday after sustaining a right pectoral muscle strain on Wednesday. Her withdrawal gave No.7 seed Kim Clijsters a spot in the quarterfinals.

    Ivanovic said in a statement: "It hurt during the doubles match (Wednesday) night, the best thing I can do now is to get treatment and hopefully be ready for the U.S. Open."