AUSTRALIAN OPEN

January 21, 2005

Ana Ivanovic

THE MODERATOR: Questions.

ANA IVANOVIC: Yeah, definitely. It's going to be great experience for me. This is my first appearance in a centre court, so pretty happy. Yeah, it was great experience for me.

ANA IVANOVIC: Yeah, I was a little bit nervous at the start. Yeah, I think in the second set also I was a little bit disappointed with my service game in the end. But, yeah, that's experience. Next time I hope I won't make the same mistakes.

ANA IVANOVIC: Well, now in next few months, I would like to get under 50, so like Top 50. That's the first goal for me.

ANA IVANOVIC: Yeah, the Top 10. That's my goal.

ANA IVANOVIC: Yeah, it was nice. They support me for my first match here. It's very nice. I enjoy that. It's always nice to have someone from your country who is supporting you, so I'm happy.

ANA IVANOVIC: Well, most of the time it didn't have anything to do with the game. But they just said sometimes, "Come on, Ana," stuff like this. So that was nice.

ANA IVANOVIC: Just some songs about country or stuff like this.

ANA IVANOVIC: Well, she was mixing quite a lot. So I didn't get used to it before. I didn't have a chance to play against these players before. Obviously, she's great player. I didn't have rhythm in the beginning also. She didn't really give me chance to get in my game. So I think that what was result today.

ANA IVANOVIC: I think my serve is quite well. And, yeah, mental part, also try to be tough. Yeah, I think I have also good groundstrokes. But also quite a lot of things to improve and to work on.

ANA IVANOVIC: Yeah, like everything little bit. I think all the things that I have to improve a little bit. Really looking forward.