Ana Ivanovic won again

Ana Ivanovic hit 31 winners, including 23 off her powerful forehand, and beat Nadia Petrova 7-5, 6-4 to win the East West Bank Classic.A year ago, Ivanovic was ranked 19th. On Monday, she is projected to rise one spot to a career-high fourth in the WTA Tour rankings. In between, the 19-year-old was runner-up at the French Open and a semifinalist at Wimbledon this year.

Ivanovic closed out the 1½-hour match by serving a love game, punctuated by an ace into the outside corner of the service box, one of four she had. The third seed connected on 70 percent of her first serves and was broken just once after saving four break points in her first service game of the match.Ivanovic led 4-2 in the second set before Petrova's forehand volley winner left the Russian trailing 5-4. Petrova hit 19 winners in the match, which were offset by 22 unforced errors.

Ivanovic dropped one set in five matches in Carson, against Serb rival Jelena Jankovic in the semifinals and she earned $88,260 for the victory.