
We're down to our final two spots in Ana's top ten career moments. At #2 is Ana's semi-final win over Daniela Hantuchova at the 2009 Australian Open which advanced Ana into the finals in Melbourne. The moment is #2 not only because it brought Ana to her 2nd grand slam final but also for the style in which she did it in. But first, lets look at how Ana got here.
Ana breezed through the first four rounds with straight set wins over Sorana Cirstea, Tathiana Garbin, Katarina Srebotnik and Caroline Wozniacki. This set up a showtime match up with Venus Williams in the quarter finals. Despite the fact that she had never beaten one of the Williams Sisters before, Ana turned the tide and scored a major victory over Venus Williams by winning 7-6, 6-4.
The match of the entire tournament, and perhaps the most memorable match of Ana's entire career came in the semi-finals where Ana took on Daniela Hantuchova. Early on, it looked like it would be a route. Daniela bagel Ana, taking the first set 6-0. Ana quickly found herself in a hole early on in the 2nd set down 0-2. It seemed as if all hoped was lost and it would end up being a miserabe day for the beautiful Serb. However, the match begin to change in Ana's favor as she battled all the way back to take the 2nd set 6-3. The 3rd set was really tight and was an epic nail biter. Ana eventually pulled through with the comeback victory to advance to her 2nd ever grand slam finals. It was a match for the ages. Unfortunately it was overshadowed after the match after Daniela Hantuchova accused Ana of intentionally squeaking her shoes on Daniela's serve. Ana claimed the squeak was due to the new court at Rod Laver arena. Either way, it was a bit of a classless thing for Daniela to say and made her look like a sore loser in my opinion. This lead to a cold handshake at the net after the match.

This set up a much anticipated final against Maria Sharapova. It was coined the "Glam Slam" due to the glamorous beauty between Ana Ivanovic and Maria Sharapova. Two young, sexy superstars was sure to grab attention and that it did. Unfortunately, it was Maria who was holding the trophy at the end of the day.







































