Avid Reading Tennis Belle (Updated)

I'm a tennis nut as much as I am a book nut, so when I read that former #1 tennis player Ana Ivanovic was an avid reader, I became even more of a fan (and of course I was a fan for her tennis; the fact that she's also a hot babe is just happenstance--yeah, right :P). She's not doing well right now, but I'm pulling for her all the more that she can get back to winning. An excerpt from the article I read:

FHM magazine ranked her the sexiest woman in sports. A reader poll in Germany’s biggest newspaper determined she has the most beautiful body in sports. Lustful viewers helped make her website the most visited of any female athlete in the world.

Apologies to the faithful fans of Danica Patrick, Maria Sharapova and Natalie Gulbis, but we’re talking about tennis player Ana Ivanovic, who also happens to be an avid reader.

Her recent choice of books, “Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer, was especially fitting. While reading the harrowing account of an ascent of Mount Everest, Ivanovic had embarked on her own climb back to the figurative mountaintop from which she fell.

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Update: Arrgh! Ana Ivanovic just lost in the 1st round of the US Open to Kateryna Bondarenko; her tennis troubles continue. Kudos to Bondarenko, who came from 1 set down and 1 break down in the 2nd set to come back and win 9-7 in the 3rd set tiebreak.