Jelenin svet
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Jelenin svet is a 2008 film, the documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 about former World No. 1 female tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 player, Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković
Jelena Janković is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from Serbia. She reached the final of the 2008 US Open and won the 2007 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles title. Janković is ranked world no...

. Jankovic portrayed herself in the film, which is directed by Tanja Brzaković.

Plot

Young, beautiful girl wakes up in one hotel
Hotel
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including en-suite bathrooms...

 room, in some exotic corner of our planet. After she gets up, dresses herself, washes her teeth, as any other twenty-two-year-old girl would do, any similarity between this girl and regular twenty-two-year-old girl disappears.
This girl is the third best tennis player in the world, and today starts the new tennis tournament. She has very strict schedule to follow: breakfast, training, signing autographs, massage, consultations, relaxing and the first match. Always on her side she has her mother, Snežana, and a team of others. She finds herself in demand from sponsors, tournament organizations, fans, and even this film-crew.

What Jelena wants is to become the world number one. This dream she shares with a number of other girls, but she is closer than most to the top spot. Fighting her way to that goal, she is not alone. Behind her is an army of fans from Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

 and all over the world, young ones and old ones, believe in Jelena's success. They identify theirself with this always smiling, eccentric, fighter girl and experience every her success as their own. But Jelena is not a superhero
Superhero
A superhero is a type of stock character, possessing "extraordinary or superhuman powers", dedicated to protecting the public. Since the debut of the prototypical superhero Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes — ranging from brief episodic adventures to continuing years-long sagas —...

. She has ups and downs, knows success, but also defeats, she cries when she is sad and smiles when she is happy; she doesn't fear showing herself and her feelings as they really are.

Cast

  • Jelena Janković
    Jelena Janković
    Jelena Janković is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player from Serbia. She reached the final of the 2008 US Open and won the 2007 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles title. Janković is ranked world no...

     as herself
  • Snežana Janković, Jelena's mother, as herself
  • Ricardo Sánchez, Jelena's coach, as himself

Tennis players

  • Anna Chakvetadze
    Anna Chakvetadze
    Anna Djambulilovna Chakvetadze is a Russian professional tennis player . On September 10, 2007, she reached her career-high professional singles ranking of World No. 5. She has won eight WTA Singles Titles and appeared in the 2007 US Open semifinals. As of July 4, 2011, Chakvetadze is ranked World...

  • Elena Dementieva
    Elena Dementieva
    Elena Viatcheslavovna Dementieva is a retired Russian professional tennis player. Dementieva is most notable for winning the singles gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She won 16 WTA singles titles and reached the finals of the 2004 French Open and 2004 US Open. Dementieva achieved a...

  • Justine Henin
  • Ana Ivanović
    Ana Ivanovic
    Ana Ivanović is a former world no. 1 Serbian tennis player. As of November 7, 2011, she is ranked 22th on the WTA rankings. She beat Dinara Safina to win the 2008 French Open and was the runner-up in singles at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open...

  • Svetlana Kuznetsova
    Svetlana Kuznetsova
    Svetlana Aleksandrovna Kuznetsova ; born June 27, 1985) is a Russian professional tennis player and as of October 10, 2011 ranked No. 21 in the WTA singles and No. 90 in the doubles ranking. Kuznetsova has appeared in four singles Grand Slam finals, winning two, and has also appeared in six doubles...


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