Tennis: Top young prospect departs

One of New Zealand's brightest tennis prospects has shifted camp with her family to live in Australia.

Fourteen-year-old Ivana Jovanovich, winner of numerous national junior titles on either side of the Tasman, has moved to Melbourne.

Her mother is understood to have secured work as a surgeon there, with her father having worked as an orthopaedic surgeon in Canberra for the past year.

The family emigrated to Auckland from Yugoslavia five years ago.

Jovanovich quickly emerged as a top tennis prospect and was promptly placed in the national development squad in 1995.