Women Who Serve: Forest HillsTennis Classic

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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Semifinals set at Forest Hills

Here are the results of today's quarterfinals at the Forest Hills Tennis Classic:

Iveta Benesova def. Ekaterina Makarova, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
Carla Suarez Navarro def. Martina Muller, 6-2, 6-0
Peng Shuai def. Vera Dushevina, 6-4, 7-5
Lucie Safarova def. Jamea Jackson, 3-6, 6-3, 6-0

Peng will play Suarez Navarro and Benesova will play Safarova in tomorrow's semifinal matches.

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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.

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."