Women Who Serve: Bethanie Mattek-Sands Nadia Petrova

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Sunday, May 3, 2009

Mattek-Sands and Petrova win Porsche Tennis Grand Prix

Friends Gisela Dulko and Flavia Pennetta, who have played doubles together on and off for many years, teamed up again this week in Stuttgart, and made it all the way to the final. They were defeated today, however, by Charleston champions Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Nadia Petrova, who won the title with a score of 5-7, 6-3, 10-7. Both teams were unseeded.

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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."