Women Who Serve: Daniela Di Toro

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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Vergeer wins 5th straight U.S. Open title

Esther Vergeer , the number 1 seed, won her fifth consecutive U.S. Open women's wheelchair singles championship today, defeating Daniela Di Toro 6-0, 6-0. The final was much easier for Vergeer than the semifinal was. In that match, she had to save a set point.

Vergeer and partner Sharon Walraven won the doubles title yesterday. In singles, Vergeer is now on a 396-match win streak.

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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."