Ana

Ana Ivanovic is currently the top-ranked women's tennis player. Aside from her tennis career, Ivanovic also studies finance at a university in Belgrade and Spanish in her spare time. On September 8, 2007, Ivanovic became a UNICEF National Ambassador for Serbia, alongside Aleksandar Dordevic and Emir Kusturica.

US name Olympic tennis squads

 
 
Former gold medal winners Serena and Venus Williams and Lindsay Davenport will front the US women's tennis team for the Beijing Olympics.

US women's tennis coach Zina Garrison announced that the trio would make up the three singles entries -- the two nominated women's doubles pairings consist of Liezel Huber with Davenport and the Williams sisters.

Men's tennis coach Rodney Harmon announced a five-player men's team with James Blake, Sam Querrey and Robby Ginepri named to the team in singles.

Bob and Mike Bryan, the top ranked doubles team in the world, make up one doubles pairing along with Blake and Querrey.

Venus Williams won gold in singles and doubles with her sister in 2000 but was unable to defend her title when the U.S women failed to qualify for Athens four years ago.

Davenport won the singles at the Atlanta Games in 1996.

The three men in the singles line-up will all be making their first Olympic appearances while the Bryant brothers return after their quarter-final finish four years ago.

MARIA SHARAPOVA

Current world No 3 Maria Sharapova has won three Grand Slam singles titles (Wimbledon 2004, US Open 2006 and Australian Open 2008). Sharapova has been ranked in the top ten since winning Wimbledon in 2004, the longest run of any current female tennis player. During the 12 months ending June 2007, she was the world's highest-paid female athlete. In April 2005, People Magazine named her one of the 50 most beautiful celebrities in the world. In 2006, Maxim magazine ranked Sharapova the hottest athlete in the world for the fourth consecutive year. She has posed in a six-page bikini photoshoot spread in the 2006 Valentine's Day issue of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.