Early and personal life
Andrea Petković was born in Tuzla to Bosnian Serb parents. Andrea Petković first took to the tennis courts when she was six; Her father Zoran Petković, former Yugoslav tennis player and member of the Yugoslavia Davis Cup team, was a coach at a club in Darmstadt at the time. He introduced her to the sport and later became her coach.[3] She was able to finish high school before competing in tennis full-time because Zoran never influenced her into joining the professional circuit.
Apart from tennis, she likes to educate herself by reading; her favourite authors are Goethe and Wilde.[3] Her mother Amira is a dental assistant while her younger sister Anja is a student.[3] Petković graduated from high school in 2006 with an Abitur from the Georg-Büchner-Schule in Darmstadt, a Gymnasium. She has been studying Political science at the Distance University of Hagen since 2008.
The Australian Fed Cup team will play on clay against Ukraine in its World Group play-off tie in April. Australia will meet the No. 7 seed, Ukraine, in the Fed Cup by BNP Paribas on the 24 and 25 April at the Palace of Sports “Lokomotiv” in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
The indoor stadium has already hosted three Ukrainian Fed Cup home ties where the Ukraine team has won two, against Israel in 2009 and Belgium in 2008.
