Saturday, July 5, 2008

25 years old today

What a wonderful run Zheng Jie had at Wimbledon. She was out for so long with an injury that one could hardly expect her to perform well at a major, but she took out the likes of Dominika Cibulkova, top seed Ana Ivanovic, Agnes Szavay, and Nicole Vaidisova. Serena Williams was too much for Zheng to handle, but their second semifinal set was one of the best sets of the entire tournament.

Zheng--who is donating her entire portion of her Wimbledon prize money to China earthquake relief--turns 25 today. One of the best doubles players on the tour, she has now shown the world that she is also one of the tour's outstanding grass court players. Happy Birthday, Jie!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Diane don't forget also a very happy birthday to Amelie. 29 years young!

hope she had a good bday despite all the crap that's happend to her lately. (injuries, FFT etc)

Dani :)

Diane said...

I can't believe I forgot that, but then...I've been forgetting all kinds of things. Thanks so much for the reminder, Dani--cake to go up.