In the latest installment of Fourhand, the No. 5-ranked Serbian WTA star heats up Florida, plus a certain Swiss mister takes on the concept of parents who upstage the careers—tennis or otherwise—of their offspring.
VERY NICE Ana Ivanovic has a page on her website dedicated entirely to magazine covers she appears on, and it just received an update. She is front and center in the latest issue of Venice, a glossy out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It's the mag's Winter 2014 issue, but Ivanovic heats it up with swimsuits including a beautiful two-piece plum number.
FED UP WITH PARENTS Needless to say, Roger Federer will hardly operate as the mother of Andre Agassi's ex, Brooke Shields, did as a "momager" back in the day with her child. He decries the idea of parents traveling with their tennis-playing children for the duration of their careers, warning, "[T]he parents also need to give space to the kid and the coaches so they can work and ... travel by themselves—the parents don't always need to babysit them through their entire career."
In related news, somewhere Piotr Wozniacki is fuming.
ROCK SOLID Kim Sears may not want you to be fooled by the rocks that she's got, but she's hardly Kimmy from the block anymore. Not with that , on display when she recently stepped out on a coffee run.
ATOMIC BERNIE, DISMANTLED In case you missed it, 22-year-old Aussie Bernard Tomic says his hard-partying days of getting girls and driving his orange sports car way too fast are very much in the rearview mirror. Here's to 2015, and here's to "maturity." May he mean what he speaks.
Do you think Tomic will be a man of his word in the new season? Says here he's simply got too much (crafty, unusual) game to completely squander it. That would be a true waste of talent—and it seems he's well aware of that, now more than ever.
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