She still has much to improve, and yet she will never improve on her ranking.
Winning even one match would mean a great deal to both her confidence and her ranking.
Expectations among an impatient American fan base rocketed with her ranking.
She only had the eighth- and ninth-place teams swapped in her ranking.
With her ranking down to No. 58, Ivanovic recently hired Steffi Graf's old coach, Heinz Gunthardt to improve her game.
Last summer, she got her ranking up to No. 198, good enough to gain entry into the Open qualifying tournament.
For the second set and most of the third she played some exceptional tennis, way, way above her ranking.
In June, her ranking reached No. 139, a high point for her comeback, before falling back to No. 186 before the Open.
At 8 30 Becky discovers that she's at the bottom of a student's "doable" teachers list and secretly tries to improve her ranking.
A medal in Montpellier, France, would boost her ranking further.
"Date-Krumm will try and make life uncomfortable for me and she's certainly a much better player than her ranking.
