ivanovic ready to soar after easy win

Ana Ivanovic entered Roland Garros with little match play and without the tremendous confidence level that brought her to the crown last year, but after a clinical 6-0 6-2 destruction of Czech Iveta Benesova in the third round, the Serbian served notice that she's not going away quietly. “I have been working a lot,” she said. “Obviously I need also match confidence. I felt very good in my practices, but never had chance to play many matches in a row. Now I allow myself to make some mistakes and work myself into a tournament. I did that really well, so I'm really happy.” Playing perhaps her most impressive match of the year, Ivanovic did everything that her new coach, Craig Kardon, has been asking her to do: dictating early, making better use of her forehand and closing as quickly as possible at the net. The left-handed Benasova tried to string out Ivanovic from the baseline but it was of no use, as the Serbian adeptly moved her serve around, effectively attacked the Czech's second serves and kept her nose in front of almost every point. Since she won her maiden Grand Slam title last year at Roland Garros, Ivanovic has often been plagued by indecisiveness, but that wasn't the case on Friday, as she executed her game plan precisely. In the final game, she grabbed a match point with a gorgeous crosscourt backhand drop shot and the won the contest with a forehand winner. “I feel physically fit and ready to handle any kind of opponent, said Ivanovic, who cracked 20 winners to only three from her opponent. “Obviously these kinds of matches help you for the tough matches over the second week. I think there are no easy matches anymore, and you have to work hard. I feel my game is coming back, and I feel more confident and more comfortable on the court. I just feel content about my fitness level as well.” The eighth seed will face either No. 9 Victoria Azarenka or Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro. She has never played either on the pro level. “[Suarez] is a tough opponent on the clay,” Ivanovic said. “She brings a lot of balls back. Azarenka's playing really well and she's an aggressive player. She really commits for her shots and she likes to dominate. So if I can have the first shot, it's going to be crucial.”