Women Who Serve: Olga Pouchkova

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Monday, August 3, 2009

Pouchkova saves 3 match points to give Washington Kastles first WTT championship

The Washington Kastles have won their first World Team Tennis Championship. The Kastles defeated the Springfield Lasers 23-20, a win sealed when Olga Pouchkova saved three match points to defeat the Lasers' Vania King.

Kastles team owner Mark Ein called it the most exciting WTT match he had ever seen, and "a dream come true to win this in front of our fans."

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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."