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Ana Ivanovic Makes Pretty Faces For The Camera

DAULERIO — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:30:04 EDT

Tennis fans should be thrilled at how popular the sport is this week. First, it was those weird faceless people popping up at Wimbledon. Then it was the Williams sisters doing their Williams-sister thing. Then yesterday's "epic" Men's Final that showed the world that Spanish men in Capri pants are well endowed.

Now, FHM magazine is putting tennis lassie Ana Ivanovic on its cover to pose in outfits that are, sadly, safe for work. That is, of course, if your place of employment is a Serbian brothel.

But if you do enjoy seeing more photos of the number one-ranked women's tennis player in the world all hussy'd up for the cameras, you can go either here or here.

Enjoy tonight; please come back tomorrow.

If Tennis doesn't work out for Ana, she should be able to find work pretty easily [FanIQ]

French Open: Whoever Wins, Ana Wins

Leitch — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 10:21:14 EDT

You COULD be watching the French Open women's final this morning. Or you could simply watch this video clip of sultry photos of Ana "You Got Serbed" Ivanovic. For our convenience, I am doing both.

Hat-tip to CNBC's Darren Rovell for being all over the Ivanovic beat (heh), but it doesn't take an MBA to see that she doesn't need to win to become the next Kournikova or Sharapova.

She simply needs to be hot — and reasonably good. (And the famous-for-being-hot-rather-than-talented success of Anna K. proves that you don't even have to be that good.)

The formula for success as a hottie athlete is this: Previously undervalued hotness (check) + one high-visibility breakout performance (check) + Web-driven buzz (check) = Endorsement (checks).
— D.S.

Finally, We Can Love Women's Tennis Once Again (Gurgle) ...

rickchand — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:30:05 EDT

So what, we have freaking robot children now, but we can't invent a female tennis player who is both super smoking hot and amazingly talented? Well that's just a load of ... wait. Ana Ivanovic? Could it be true?

If you haven't heard about her, let me introduce you. Her name is Ana Ivanovic and she might have been taking the torch over when she waxed Maria Sharapova 6-2, 6-1 in the semis of the French Open today. If she beats Justin Henin (no longer Hardenne) on Saturday, the world will know about her like they knew about Maria when she won Wimbledon three years ago and they'll be searching YouTube for video calendars like this one.

We love Ivanovic's background: She once practiced inside a converted swimming pool and left war-torn Serbia to train in Switzerland. And just look at the way she ~~fills out a tennis dress~~ demolished No. 2 seed Maria Sharapova on Thursday in the French Open, beating her 6-2, 6-1 in 65 minutes to advance to her first Grand Slam final. Suddenly, that crush on Anna Kournikova seems so childish.

Ivanovic Set For Clay Showdown With Henin [USA Today]
The New "Ana" Of Tennis [CNBC]
French Open Finalist Touted As The Next Kournikova [SportsbyBrooks]