Women Who Serve: Forest Hill Tennis Classic

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Saturday, August 23, 2008

Safarova wins Forest Hills

Lucie Safarova has defeated Peng Shuai, 6-4, 6-2, to take the Forest Hills Tennis Classic title. Both finalists were unseeded in a tournament with only sixteen entrants and four seeds. Peng took out the top seed, Pauline Parmentier, in the first round.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Parmentier out in Forest Hills

Pauline Parmentier, the top seed at the Forest Hills Tennis Classic, is out of the competition. She was defeated by Peng Shuai, 6-3, 6-2. I was a bit surprised to find that Jamea Jackson had defeated Marina Erakovic, 7-6, 7-5. Also winning was Carla Suarez Navarro, who defeated Timea Backsinszky. Finally, Lucie Safarova defeated Akgul Amanmuradova.

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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."