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Crowd support was also crucial for the Chinese women's pair, who started their quarter-final match at 1:00AM on Aug. 16. The late match, punctuated by swirls of flying nocturnal insects, pitted Yan and Zheng against Russia's Dinara Safina and Kuznetsova in a nearly three-hour battle (6-3, 5-7, 10-8). Safina must have been exhausted: Less than four hours earlier, the Russian had dispensed with Serbia's Jelena Jankovic in an epic women's single's quarter-final...
...women's tennis schedule continues in an unrelenting fashion. Safina plays Li again in a women's singles semi-finals on Aug. 16 at 4:00PM, just 12 hours after she and her Russian partner lost to the Chinese pair. Zheng and Yan meet Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual later in the evening in a doubles semi-final match...
...earlier this year, her game appeared to unravel. Despite winning her home tournament in Antwerp in February, Henin failed to go beyond the quarterfinals at any other event. At last week's German Open, she was upset by Dinara Safina in the third round. Although she was injury-free, Henin had pulled out of this week's Italian Open citing fatigue, and the WTA fined her $20,000 for late withdrawal...
...astonishing: albatrosses spend 95% of their lives over the ocean, and most of that flying. Albatrosses have the longest wingspan on earth, and they can stay aloft continuously for years, dozing on the wing. In Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival--ignore the sappy subtitle--Carl Safina follows a single bird as it roams the globe gathering food for its chick (be warned: this book contains extended scenes of fish regurgitation...
...Safina has one of those effortlessly synthetic minds that range almost as far afield as his beloved birds do, from vulcanology to population biology to the history of Pacific exploration, alighting to sketch thumbnail portraits of the curious characters who study seabirds. But none of them are as memorable as his protagonist: "An albatross is a great symphony of flesh, perception, bone, and feathers," Safina writes, "composed of long movements and set to ever-changing rhythms of light, wind, water...