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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

"Thank God I didn't break anything"

After she won her second round match in Rome today, world number 1 Dinara Safina expressed quite a bit of anger toward the Internazionali BNL d'Italia organizers. "I was just so angry because you can get injured," Safina said, after falling twice on the wet clay. "They tell us go and play because they think the court is fine, but they are not playing on that court."

"Thank God I didn't break anything, but if I broke something, I mean, so many players get injured. Then what should I say to the tournament? I (should) say thanks for pushing us to play? I mean, they would say, oh, we are sorry. But it's my career, it's three months off court."
Posted by Diane at 10:11 PM
Labels: Dinara Safina, Internazionali BNL d'Italia

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For several years, Diane published the progressive blog, The Dees Diversion, and she also contributed regularly to the Mother Jones MoJo Blog. Diane has published political essays, short fiction and creative nonfiction. For the past several years, she has concentrated on writing poetry.

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