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- Updated: December 31, 2016
Former world No 1 Ana Ivanovic has admitted she quit tennis before she started to “despise” the sport.
The 29-year-old, whose sole Grand Slam success came at the 2008 French Open, announced her retirement earlier this week after years of battling against a variety of injuries.
But Ivanovic told The Times she had reached a position where she felt unfit to carry on at the top of the sport, both physically and mentally.
“The last few years have been a struggle with injury,” Ivanovic …
