Women Who Serve: Maria Kondratieva

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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Chakvetadze and Larsson to play in Portoroz final

Anna Chakvetadze defeated 7th seed Palona Hercog 0-6, 6-2, 6-2 today in Portoroz, putting her into a final against Johanna Larsson. Larsson won her semifinal match by retirement when her opponent, Ksenia Pervak, sustained an injury to her wrist.

2nd seeds Maria Kondratieva and Vladamira Uhlirova won the doubles championship. They defeated Chakvetadze and Marina Erakovic 6-4, 2-6, 10-7.

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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."