Women Who Serve: Alla Kudryaattseva

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Top seeds defeated in 's-Hertogenbosch doubles semifinals

Top seeds Hsieh Su-wei and Anabel Medina Garrigues were defeated 7-6, 6-7, 10-8 today in the Unicef Open semifinals by 3rd seeds Alla Kudryattseva and Anastasia Rodionova. In the other semifinal, 4th seeds Vania King and Yaroslava Shvedova defeated Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci 6-3, 6-3.

In singles, top seed and wild card Justine Henin defeated Kristina Barrois, 5th seed Alexandra Dulgheru defeated Yaroslava Shvedova, Kirsten Flipkens defeated Dominika Cibulkova, and 7th seed Andrea Petkovic was victorious over qualifier Sandra Zahlavova. In the semifinals, Henin will play Dulgheru, and Flipkens will play Petkovic.

About the blog author

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."