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By Nick Georgandis

Ana Ivanovic has a lot of talents: tennis, modeling, spokesperson.
Tweeting does not make the list.

This past week, Ivanovic became one of the last holdouts in professional tennis to join Twitter, and made an inauspicious debut with a first message of "a"

The message survived for most of Thursday night before it was replaced by a more fun-loving greeting and a picture of a smiling, winking Ivanovic which probably upped her male Twitter following by about 8 billion percent.

Of the many re-Tweets and acknowledgments in the 48 hours since, the most odd and awkward might have come from someone who really should seem cooler. World. No. 2 Rafael Nadal's response back to Ivanovic read

"@anaivanovic welcome to this mean of communication. Looking forward to exchanging tweets with you."

Granted, English isn't Nadal's first language, but that message sounds like it was written by a robot, or even worse, a guy trying to hit on Ana Ivanovic via Twitter.

According to the New York Times, with Ivanovic onboard, Australia's Samantha Stosur is the only Top 20 tennis player without a Twitter account.

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