Documentary movie about Jelena Jankovic will premier on November 12th in Belgrade.

The movie is called Jelena’s World. It portrays the world of professional tennis through the life of the current world No.1 herself.

Here you can see the photo gallery from the filming and the trailer, which is in Serbian, but you’ll get the idea).

I didn’t know Tatiana Golovin smoked!

Considering the current state of her tennis career, no wonder she resorted to vices. Let’s just mention that the 20-year-old Golovin started the 2008 season ranked 13th, and now she’s ranked 249th.

Or maybe the French tennis player started smoking because of her turbulent love life? Who knows. Read more »

You probably know about the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour’s Challenge Your Hero campaign and their video competition.

Yodhi Soemardjan won the first place with his Routine Hero video in which he is challenging Ana Ivanovic. Yodhi will have the thrilling opportunity to see his Heroes up close at the Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha next week.

There are also five second place winners who will be receiving Sony Ericsson mobile phones.

American Serena Williams is making her return to the Perth Hopman Cup in 2009, teamed up with James Blake, with whom she won the tournament in 2003.

Williams will make her third appearance at the Hopman Cup, where she has never lost a match. Last year, nine-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams won the title in Perth, partnered with Mardy Fish, so she will be defending her title in 2009.

Here are the Hyundai Hopman Cup teams in seeded order:

(1) USA: Serena Williams and James Blake
(2) Russia: Dinara Safina and Marat Safin
(3) France: Alize Cornet and Gilles Simon
(4) Australia: Casey Dellacqua and Lleyton Hewitt
(5) Italy: Flavia Pennetta and Simone Bolelli
(6) Germany: Sabine Lisicki and Nicolas Kiefer
(7) Slovak Republic: Dominika Cibulkova and Dominik Hrbaty
(8) Winner Asian Hopman Cup (The Asian Hopman Cup will be played November 12-15 in Kazakhstan.)

The Hyundai Hopman Cup is the Official Mixed Teams Championship of the International Tennis Federation. The 21st one will take place at the Burswood Dome from 3 – 9 January 2009. (source: Hyundai Hopman Cup)

According to the readers of German newspaper Die Bild, Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic has the most beautiful body of any sportsperson – male or female.

The 20-year-old Ana scored 51% of all votes, beating fellow tennis player Maria Sharapova who took second place with significantly less votes, just 14% (if I understood this German article right – with my very limited knowledge of the language).

Oh my God! I can't believe this. I'm shocked and freezed. Jelena Jankovic's official website has been hacked by some Albania & Kosova Hackers Group.

Serbia's Jelena Jankovic is currently the top-ranked women's tennis player in the world and I suppose all of you know about the problem with Serbia and Kosovo.

Don't people have smarter things to do? So pathetic. I don't even want to go into this.

Jelena, you will always be better than some narrow-minded, I hope, teenagers. They can do you no harm.

After the cut you can see a clearer screenshot of what those haters wrote. Read more »

Top seed Elena Dementieva came back from a set down to defeat fourth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki at the FORTIS Championships Luxembourg and win the third title of the 2008 season

"You don't feel great after you've lost 7-6 in the third, but Elena has had a great tournament and played a great match today, and really deserved to win here," said Wozniacki after losing 2-6 6-4 7-6(4). "I knew it was going to be tough. I was fighting for every point. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to win the match today. But she played great."

The 27-year-old Russian also won her only other meeting with the Danish teenager, beating her on en route to winning gold medal at the Beijing Olympics.

With Dementieva winning her 11th career title, Wozniacki failed to win her fourth one.

BTW: Last season Ana Ivanovic was the winner of the FORTIS Championships Luxembourg, but this year the Serb played at Linz instead, and won the title today. (source: Sports Network, photo via Yahoo)

Top seed Ana Ivanovic confirmed her return to form by impressively defeating Vera Zvonareva 6-2 6-1 in the final of the $600,000 Generali Ladies Linz.

After winning Roland Garros and becoming world No.1, Ivanovic’s slide slowly started. She had won just seven of her previous 14 matches entering Linz, but in today’s final the Serb let the Russian take only three games in a 50-minute match. Ivanovic faced only one break point in the encounter, but broke second-seeded Zvonareva six times, using every chance for a break.

Ivanovic’s road to the title at the Generali Ladies Linz included victories over Sybille Bammer, seventh seed Flavia Pennetta, third seed Agnieszka Radwanska, and finally second-seeded Vera Zvonareva, who lost her fifth final of 2008 (this year the Russian won titles at Prague and Guangzhou). (photo via Yahoo)

It was almost certain that Jelena Jankovic would end the 2008 season as No.1 in the world, but now we are sure the Serb beat her competition, Dinara Safina and Serena Williams, and will retain the top spot regardless of her result at the season-ending Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha.

Jankovic’s 4,555 points gave her a commanding lead over Safina (3,782) and Williams (3,716).

"It has been a truly amazing year for me," said the 23-year-old. "Winning four Sony Ericsson WTA Tour titles, over 60 matches and to make it to two semifinals and a final in the Grand Slams of 2008 is a dream come true. I worked really hard this year and to finish No.1 is where I want to be and where I hope to stay."

Jankovic first reached the No.1 ranking on August 11, but held it for only one week. She then regained it on October 6, after her win at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix.

Four other players held the top ranking during 2008: the retired Justine Henin (20 weeks), Ana Ivanovic (12), Maria Sharapova (three) and Serena Williams (four). (via On the Baseline)

Second seed Vera Zvonareva and top seed Ana Ivanovic reached the final of the Generali Ladies Linz on Saturday.

Russia’s Zvonareva defeated her semifinal opponent Marion Bartoli 6-0 6-1 in just 51 minutes. The Frenchwoman won only six points on serve in the first set, while in the second she didn’t earn a game point until the 11th game. Earlier this month Zvonareva and Bartoli also played each other; it was in Stuttgart, and Bartoli managed to win just two games.

In the final of the Generali Ladies Linz Zvonareva will face Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic, the 6-2 3-6 7-5 winner over Polish third seed Agnieszka Radwanska. Good for the world No.4 Ivanovic to finally live up to the expectations and go far into a tournament.

The Generali Ladies Linz final is Ana’s first since winning the French Open in June. Last week she lost in the semis of the Tennis.com Zurich Open to eventual champion Venus Williams, and that semifinal was also a sort of improvement of Ana’s recent results, but this Linz final is definitely a good sign. (photos: Getty Images)