Good afternoon and welcome to quarter-finals day. Remember 2008? Barack Obama getting elected. Russia recognising the independence of Georgian breakaways Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Ana Ivanovic winning the French Open. You’d forgotten about that last one, hadn’t you? That’s OK, we are all getting to that age. But win she did. She beat Dinara Safina 6–4, 6–3. Back then Ivanovic was top of the world ranking. Numero uno, like the place on Northcote Road. It hasn’t quite gone to plan since then. She has not made even the semi-finals of a Grand Slam event since then, despite her 27 attempts, and now stands in seventh, like that place in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Ana Ivanovic v Elina Svitolina: French Open 2015 – live!
