You know, or not.
Here's Ana's interview from Vogue. Despite the author's stupidity (The Williamses suck? Justine was just plain miserable? Michelle Obama? REALLY?) it's not a bad interview. Nothing new but some interesting bits:
On being Baby E:
Her workout is so rigorous, she goes through a new pair of sneakers
(size 9) every two weeks. “You have to do it,” she says. “Tennis is
much more powerful and aggressive these days.” Also, the tennis press
will mercilessly grill you about your “fitness,” one of those code
words journalists use for overweight. Until she hired a
fitness coach who amped up her workout and got her to cut out pizza,
cheese, and desserts (she’s got a sweet tooth), it was a question she
occasionally had to confront. “When I was sixteen, I had a little baby
fat,” she admits. “But in the last three years, I have worked really
hard to change that.” It has paid off. At six feet one and 152 pounds,
Ivanovic is all muscle.
On being the nice girl in a mean girl world:
“Having your mother with you gets rid of the loneliness. When I first
came on the tour, I thought I was going to make friends, but I would
try to talk to people and they would all look at me funny. I realized,
OK, that’s not going to happen.” In the beginning, her mother, a slim
blonde who keeps a watchful eye on her daughter in public, used to
remind her she didn’t have to play tennis if she didn’t want to. “She
doesn’t say that anymore,” says Ivanovic, “but whenever I get really
stressed, she reminds me that tennis should make me happy, not
miserable.”
Tignor on Ana:
“Ana Ivanovic is very good for women’s tennis, and not just because
she’s good-looking,” says Steve Tignor, the executive editor of Tennis Magazine.
“She doesn’t just hit the ball hard; she’s smooth. She makes it look
effortless. She also happens to be a nice, well-rounded person. She
comes into the press conference and makes jokes. She’s not defensive.
The fact that she’s a normal person at the top of her sport is really
rare—the normal people tend to get weeded out as they go up.”
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“I don’t know if she can really dominate the game,” he said. “I don’t know if she has the fierceness to do it. Ana is more motivated by the joy of playing.”
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“I don’t know if she can really dominate the game,” he said. “I don’t know if she has the fierceness to do it. Ana is more motivated by the joy of playing.”
Heaven forbid.
