Women Who Serve: Annabel Medina Garrigues

Saturday, January 5, 2008

Retirement benefits for several players

I was sad to see Annabel Medina Garrigues retire in her first round match in Hobart against wild card Casey Dellacqua. Medina Garriagues had to stop playing in the first set because of a sacroiliac joint sprain, with Dellacqua leading, 5-4.

Meanwhile, in Sydney, Nathalie Dechy retired with a left quads strain in the final qualifying round, giving Yuliana Fedak the victory with a score of 5-2 in the first set. Karin Knapp retired from heat illness in her final qualifying round, giving a win to Kaia Kanepi, at 3-6, 6-3, 3-3. And Sofia Arvidsson won her final qualifying round, 6-0, 4-0, when Tzipora Obziler retired with heat illness.

Update: Dechy has recovered and has entered the main draw as a lucky loser.

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.

An eight-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.)

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