Women Who Serve: Maria Sharapova Chris Evert

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Williams sisters top Harris poll of favorite U.S. athletes

Serena and Venus Williams, in that order, are at the top of the most recent U.S. Harris poll list of favorite female athletes. Tennis players, in fact, make up half of the list:

1. Serena Williams
2. Venus Williams
3. Danica Patrick
4. Candace Parker
5. Mia Hamm
6. Maria Sharapova
7. Annika Sorenstam
8. Chris Evert
9. Anna Kournikova
10. Michelle Kwan

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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."