Women Who Serve: Marino Romina Oprandi

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Sunday, September 26, 2010

ITF updates

This weekend, Mirjana Lucic won the $75k ITF tournament in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She defeated 3rd seed Lindsay Lee-Waters 6-1, 6-4 in the final.

Rebecca Marino won the $50k tournament in Saguenay, Quebec. Marino defeated Alison Riske 6-4, 6-7, 7-6 in the final. Riske was the top seed.

The champion of the $100k tournament in Saint Malo, France is Romina Oprandi. Oprandi defeated 2nd seed Alize Cornet 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 in the final of the clay court tournament.

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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."