PARIS — When a 20-year-old Ana Ivanovic won the French Open in 2008 and the number one ranking followed shortly afterwards the world appeared to be at her feet.
Photogenic and with a sweet smile she was already a poster girl for the WTA Tour and sponsors queued up for her signature.
Later that year she tearfully announced in Beijing that she was unable to play in the Olympics because of a thumb injury and suddenly her career, which had always been moving on up, became complicated.
It was hardly that she disappeared off the radar, but in the years that followed, injuries and emotional instability on court meant the results for one of the game's big hitters dried up.