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Serbia is the new Hotbed of tennis.

by bahamaderek on Nov.17, 2008, under Ana Ivanovic, Jelena Jankovic, Novak Djokovic

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Most people would have a hard time explaining to a friend where Serbia is located. It is a landlocked country about the size of Belgium or the Sate of Ohio with a population of 8 million. In 2006 it became a new Republic, and shed its long association as a part of Yugoslavia. Its capital city of Belgrade will be a new venue for the ATP to stage a tournament in the future. Exactly when and where have yet to be determined, but the new ‘owners’ of the Serbian rights to an ATP event hope to have all the details ironed out very soon. Novak Djokovic’s family are the driving force behind this new Serbian tennis popularity explosion, and they have convinced the ATP officials that a Belgrade event would be very successful. All three of the Djokovic boys play tennis, Novak of course is the eldest and most famous, and together with Jelena Jankovic and Ana Ivanovic they have made tennis the number one sport in Serbia. How or why Serbia has become such a hotbed of tennis is impossible to answer, to suggest that it only takes one great player in the country to reach star status is not the answer. It hasn’t happened in Switzerland, and it didn’t happen in Belgium even though the country produced the two best women players. France, Spain and Argentine have emerged as the three strongest tennis nations, and Serbia is not far behind, they have 5 men and 2 women in the top 100 players.

Novak is playing a large part in the countries effort to move into a higher tier of the Davis Cup competition, and both Ana and Jelena are doing the same for Serbia’s Fed Cup program.

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