{"id":26,"date":"2016-08-22T01:10:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T01:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2019-02-23T15:12:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T20:12:51","slug":"beginning-end-ana-ivanovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2016\/08\/22\/beginning-end-ana-ivanovic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning of the End of Ana Ivanovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been an undeniably rocky season for former world\u00a0#1 <strong>Ana Ivanovic<\/strong>. The Serbian tennis star\u2019s form in the 2016 season reached a new low as she lost in straight sets to\u00a0world\u00a0#121 Donna Vekic 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Ivanovic has struggled tremendously on-court. She is yet to win a tennis match since the grass court event in <strong>Mallorca\u00a0<\/strong>over two months ago. An early exit in <strong>Wimbledon<\/strong> to <strong>Ekaterina Alexandora<\/strong>, a player ranked outside the top 200, was a further illustration of Ivanovic\u2019s considerable vulnerabilities between the ears.<\/p>\n<h3>So what exactly is the reason behind Ivanovic\u2019s fall from grace?<\/h3>\n<p>What has happened to the same player that shocked <strong>Serena Williams<\/strong> in a round of\u00a0sixteen match at the 2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2019\/01\/28\/looking-back-2019-australian-open-how-women-outshone-men\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Australian Open<\/strong><\/a>? The serious problem for the tennis megastar is that she does not have the luxury of a default setting like many top players have. A default setting\u00a0would enable Ivanovic to drive through matches even when she is not feeling entirely comfortable about her tennis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been an undeniably rocky season for former world\u00a0#1 Ana Ivanovic. The Serbian tennis star\u2019s form in the 2016 season reached a new low as she lost in straight sets to\u00a0world\u00a0#121 Donna Vekic 6-4, 6-2. Ivanovic has struggled tremendously on-court. She is yet to win a tennis match since the grass court event in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14,15],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta","tag-ana-ivanovic","tag-wta"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}