Ana Dabović (

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: Ана Дабовић; born August 18, 1989) is a Serbian professional

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player for the BLMA of the French Ligue 1 and EuroLeague Women. Standing at , she plays at the

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position. She also represents the Serbian national basketball team. Since 17 April 2015 to October 2016, she was a president of ŽKK Vojvodina.

Club career

Dabović began her professional career in WBC Herceg Novi, playing there from 2005 until 2007. She then signed with the Albanian team Flamurtari Vlore for the 2007–08 season, only to return a year later to Herceg Novi. In the following years she played for several foreign teams, including Greek WBC Aris, Russian WBC Dynamo Novosibirsk, Polish

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and Turkish

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. In April 2013, she signed with

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in the

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. She later played for Ormanspor in the

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. Dabović would play for Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi in 2015 of the

. In 2016, Dabović once again played for

. In 2017, Dabović signed with Fenerbahçe.

WNBA career

Dabović entered the 2009 WNBA draft but went undrafted. She would play the next 6 years overseas before being signed to a WNBA team. On February 18, 2015, Dabović signed a contract with the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA. On July 8, 2015, she made the WNBA debut for the Sparks, scoring 2 points in 8 minutes of action against the San Antonio Stars. Despite some limited minutes in the beginning of her stint with the Sparks, her role in the team increased over the time. Over 24 regular-season games, she averaged 8.8 points, 1.9 assists and 1.6 rebounds on 44.6% shooting from the field. For such performances, she was selected into the 2015

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. In 2016, Dabović won her first WNBA championship with the Sparks as they defeated the

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3–2 in the finals. On February 1, 2018, Dabović signed a contract to return to the

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for the 2018 WNBA season.

International career

She represented Serbian national basketball team at the EuroBasket 2015 in Budapest where they won the gold medal, and qualified for the

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, first in the history for the Serbian team. On August 20, 2016, the Serbian team played for bronzed medal against France and won 70:63. This is the first medal Serbian women basketball team won in the Olympics.

Personal life

Family

Her father is basketball coach Milan Dabović and her mother is Nevenka Dabović, former handball player. Ana has an older brother Milan, who is an active basketball player, and two older sisters, Jelica, a former basketball player, and Milica, a former basketball player.

Relationships

Since 2013, she was in a relationship with the former

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and president of Basketball Federation of Serbia, Dragan Đilas. The couple separated at the end of 2014.

WNBA statistics

Regular season

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Playoffs