Women Who Serve: Internazionali Femminilim di Tennis di Palermo

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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Pennetta & Kanepi to meet in Palermo final

Palermo top seed and defending champion Flavia Pennetta defeated 8th seed Julia Goerges 6-0, 6-4 in the semifinals today, and will play 5th seed Kaia Kanepi in the final. Kanepi defeated wild card Romina Oprandi 6-3, 6-2.

Alberta Brianti and Sara Errani won the doubles title today, defeating Jill Craybas and Julia Goerges 6-4, 6-1. Both teams were unseeded, as were all of the semifinalists.

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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."