Women Who Serve: Elena Bogdan

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Saturday, June 6, 2009

Bogdan and Lertcheewakarn win French Open junior doubles title

Elena Bogdan and Noppawan Lertcheewakarn, the number 2 seeds, have won the junior girls French Open doubles championship. They defeated 3rd seeds Timea Babos and Heather Watson, 3-6, 6-3, 10-8.

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Simona Halep wins French Open girls' title

Simona Halep of Romania, who upset number 2 seed Arantxa Rus to get to the final, defeated Elena Bogdan, 6-4, 6-7, 6-2 to win the French Open junior girls' title today. Bogdan had upset number 1 seed Melanie Oudin.

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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."