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Hantuchova, Ivanovic persevere despite growing pains

By Bonnie D. Ford
ESPN.com

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

MELBOURNE, Australia -- While much of the world may focus on their outer beauty, the journeys Daniela Hantuchova and Ana Ivanovic have taken to their rendezvous in the Australian Open semifinals required inner makeovers that were anything but cosmetic. Ivanovic rocketed into the top 10 last year, then found a few players sharing that thin air with her to be unsolvable. Hantuchova, the impossibly long-legged 24-year-old from Slovakia, has spent the last five years trying to live up to the expec ...

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