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Jelenin svet
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Wikipedia article
'Jelenin svet' ('Jelena's World') is a 2008 independent documentary film written and directed by Tanja Brzakovi, about former World No. 1 female tennis player, Jelena Jankovi.
Background
The film follows Jelena Jankovi over a 14-month period, and includes tennis tournaments in Madrid and Berlin, as well as her visits to her home in Belgrade.
At the beginning of the documentary, Jankovi was ranked as third best tennis player in the world. The film follows her regime as she prepares for various meets, deals with maintaining her diet, trains, meets with fans, and begins her matches.
Cast
* Jelena Jankovi as herself
* Sneana Jankovi as herself (Jelena's mother)
* Ricardo Snchez as himself (Jelena's coach)
:In tennis matches:
* Anna Chakvetadze
* Elena Dementieva
* Justine Henin
* Ana Ivanovic
* Svetlana Kuznetsova
Reception
When the film premiered in Belgrade on November 12, 2008, it outsold the James Bond film 'Quantum of Solace' which opened there that same weekend, bumping the Bond film to second place in the Serbian box office.
In speaking about the film, 'Politika' made note that full-length theatrically released documentary films about Serbian athletes are rare. They appreciated that 'Jelenin svet' celebrated the efforts of one of the best among the best in the world, and that the film was able to document Jelena Jankovi's rise from third-best to world's best. They wrote that the film is dynamic, witty and cheerful in its portrait of Jankovi, and that it allows viewers to better understand the subject of the film.
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