FRENCH OPEN FINALIST TOUTED AS THE NEXT KOURNIKOVA: As we get ready to the watch the Spurs take a steaming dump on the soon-to-be short-lived Lebron James craze, we’ve so far spent today inspecting the demolition of Maria Sharapova by a 19-year-old cutie named Ana Ivanovic.

CNBC’s Darren Rovell is already calling the exotic beauty the “new ‘Ana” of tennis”: “The corporate world is a little bit down on tennis right now, but if I were a sports marketer, I’d take the jump on the Ivanovic bandwagon right now.”

Her early photos are gorgeous, and it appears she’s transitioning nicely into womanhood, as Mary Carillo pointed out today on ESPN2: “She’s burned off a lot of the baby fat that she was carrying years ago.”

Don’t know about you, but we’re on her baby fat bandwagon too.