Ana Ivanovic gave us a nice surprise by beating ninth seed Victoria Azarenka 2-6 7-6(6) 6-2 in the first round of the Western and Southern Financial Group Women’s Open in Cincinnati.

The world No.65 Ivanovic, who exited the last week’s tournament in San Diego in the first round, lost the first set in Cincinnati and appeared set for another early loss before rallying to upset the winner of this month’s Bank of the West Classic.

Next for Ivanovic will be 32nd-ranked Yaroslava Shvedova, the winner over Alla Kudryavtseva in the first round. Keep it up, Ana! (photo: © Neal Trousdale)

Ana Ivanovic has confirmed her adidas outfit for the US Open. It’s the same dress she's currently wearing, again with optional leggings, only that the new color scheme is pink. The official name of the dress is adidas Women's Fall Ana adilibria Dress.

Ana’s fist pump doesn’t look that energetic in the picture, like she knew she would lose in the first round of the Mercury Insurance Open in San Diego. Shahar Peer defeated her 7-6(3) 6-3. Peer had only two break points in the match, and converted just one, but it was enough to beat Ivanovic. (source: Down the Line)

The 2010 Rogers Cup in Montreal is favoring Canadian players over 2006 champion Ana Ivanovic when it comes to awarding wildcards and so the Grand Slam winner will have to play qualifying to get a spot in the main draw.

The brighter perspective is that Ana will add some spice to the qualifying rounds, but you have to feel some sadness when you read what Ana said two years ago: "In two years I'm gonna come back here and try to be eager to win again. Hopefully, you know, I'll still have the good support."

The former world No.1 Ivanovic is now ranked 65th, and her win-loss record this season is 11-12. (source: Forty Deuce)

Wimbledon may have strict dress code but there still is enough space for players and their brands to experiment and bring something new and exciting. Let's see how successful they've been this year.

Let's start with Venus and Serena Williams. We've already paid close attention to both Venus' Eleven dress and Serena's Nike dress, but it's worth mentioning them again – Venus was definitely unique with fringes all over the bottom part of the dress, while Serena wore a more classic design inspired by strawberries and cream and a cute narrow headband. Just to use the opportunity to mention that the sisters, twice defending champions, lost in doubles quarterfinals today to Elena Vesnina and Vera Zvonareva 3-6 6-3 6-4.

Chinese brand ANTA and Jelena Jankovic were simple and classy at this year's Wimbledon. JJ also sported a customized racquet bag and was fully equipped for the greatest Grand Slam.

Once my favorite tennis fashion designer Stella McCartney seems to be lacking inspiration as Caroline Wozniacki has been wearing pretty much the same dress for months. Now I can't blame her, why bother when you're going to lose your match in 46 minutes (sorry, Caro). Talking about Stella, we have to mention Maria Kirilenko who looks awesome even in the simple adidas BARRICADE top and skort. Read more »

This is not an upset, nor is it surprising, but I still have the inertia of covering Ana Ivanovic and her early losses at tournaments still come as small shocks although they shouldn't be by now. Anyway, the former world No.1, unseeded this year, fell in the very first round of Wimbledon 2010 to seed No.13 Shahar Peer with the score 6-3 6-4. The world No.45 Ivanovic entered the match with a 0-1 record against Peer, actually 0-2 if you include the Fed Cup, but today's encounter was their first on grass and Ivanovic came to Wimbledon with a 15-5 win-loss record at the tournament, compared to Peer's much weaker 8-5.

Fifth-seeded Francesca Schiavone, the champion at the previous Grand Slam of Roland Garros, was also eliminated in the first round already, by unseeded Russian Vera Dushevina 6-7(0) 7-5 6-1. The Italian has suffered her second straight loss after her awesome achievement on the Paris clay.

Ivanovic's compatriot Jelena Jankovic, seeded fourth, needed a lot of match points and a tiebreak, but saw off promising British star Laura Robson 6-3 7-6(5). Last year's Wimbledon runner-up Venus Williams improved to 47-3 in opening matches at Grand Slam tournaments by beating Rossana de los Rios 6-3 6-2. Kim Clijsters powered through to the second round with a 6-0 6-3 victory over Maria Elena Camerin, and her fellow Belgian Justine Henin advanced with a 6-4 6-3 win over Anastasija Sevastova. (photo: sr_cranks)