Paris, May 25: Ana Ivanovic, who had the world at her feet after her sensational 2008 French Open win, admits she cried herself to sleep at night when her career went into an embarrassing tailspin.
The 22-year-old Serbian beauty with the girl-next-door looks and the multi-million dollar deals, shot to number one in the world after her Roland Garros triumph.
But then the dream turned sour.
Illness and a loss of form in 2009 saw her ranking slip and she finished outside of the top 20 for the first time since 2004.
Things didn’t look much better in January this year when she left the Australian Open in tears.
“It was no fun at all. There were lots of tears and lots of hard times and lots of doubts and fears, everything, but it’s something that you learn.
–PTI