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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Jankovic wins ACES Award

Jelena Jankovic has received the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour ACES Award for 2007. The award is given annually to a player who does an outstanding job of promoting tennis within the community, the news media, and beyond.

This year, for the first time, a point system was used to select the ACES Award winner. Jankovic logged in more than a hundred hours of promotional service to the tour. The downside of this, of course, is that Jankovic showed up at enough events to log in more than a hundred hours.

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Diane Elayne Dees is a writer, a retired psychotherapist, a former speech communication instructor, and a former public relations specialist. She is also a life-long fan of women's professional tennis.

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.

A nine-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Diane has published four poetry chapbooks, Coronary Truth (Kelsay Books), The Last Time I Saw You, (Finishing Line Press), The Wild Parrots of Marigny (Querencia Press), and I Can't Recall Exactly When I Died (Kelsay Books). (See ordering information at the top of the page.)

She has also published four microchaps with the Origami Poems Project: Beach Days, Pandemic Times, Missing Amy, and Yogic Truth. Her nature poetry was read on Martha Stewart Living Radio's "The Naturalist's Datebook."