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World number 15 Emma Navarro has entered the 2026 Credit One Charleston Open. Navarro, a Charleston native, reached the quarterfinals this year; this will be her seventh appearance at the event, which will take place on Daniel Island March 28-April 5. #WTA

The 2025 Ms. Backspin awards!

Some pundit (don't know who he was), talking about the Epstein files, referred to "a respected man like Larry Summers." And that's the really sad part--that people probably do respect a man who's that sexist.

Listening to Rep. Kanna, and I couldn't disagree more: Stripping titles and refusing to name buildings after someone isn't justice. Justice is going to prison.

Wk.47: "And One More to Grow On..." ...a final BJK Cup weekend, and another Kamiji sweep wtabackspin.blogspot.com/2025/11/wk47... backspintennis.blogspot.com/2025/11/wk47...

The 24th Jannik Sinner trophy lift at 24 years old. 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2nd time lifting the ATP Finals trophy without dropping a single set. One word: WOW. 🦊 (via Tennis TV)

Every day, it gets worse….😢

2025 WTA Rankings Round-Up 🔢 ...the annual grab bag of numbers and year-end ranking rises and falls at the conclusion of another uniquely interesting WTA campaign wtabackspin.blogspot.com/2025/11/2025... backspintennis.blogspot.com/2025/11/2025...

Elena Rybakina with a custom WTA Finals Champion cake. 🎂🐠 (via sonyalanceray on IG)

Rybakina crashes the party--let the 2026 preparatinos begin womenwhoserve.blogspot.com/2025/11/ryba... #WTA

Wk.46: "Elena Enchanted" ...last one in, last one standing wtabackspin.blogspot.com/2025/11/wk46... backspintennis.blogspot.com/2025/11/wk46...

acorns everywhere! 🐿️ 🍴

My latest chapbook, I Can't Recall Exactly When I Died, is available from Amazon (and Kelsay Books). This collection of poems explores the trauma and confusion that results when a marriage dissolves. www.amazon.com/Cant-Recall-... #poetry #poetrycommunity #Divorce

WTA Finals champion Elena Rybakina says that her illness issues went away but have returned, so she's doing some health checks in Europe. 🤞 www.wtatennis.com/news/4398611... #WTA

Elena Rybakina on IG: “What. A. Week. 🥹🏆 Thank you to my team, my family, sponsors and everyone who believed in me. So proud of how far we've come. Thank you so much WTA Finals Riyadh for such an event and incredible atmosphere! I couldn't have asked for a better way to end the season. 💜🔥”

The Best For Last After spending most of the season on the outer edge of the top tier, Elena Rybakina comes alive in the final stretch. The Kazakh, who was the last to officially qualify for the WTA Finals, defeats world #1 Aryna Sabalenka, 6-3, 7-6⁰, to claim $5.24 million and finish 2025 at #5.

THE MOMENT ELENA RYBAKINA WON THE 2025 WTA FINALS. 🥹🥹🥹🥹

I thoroughly enjoyed that post-final montage wrap-up by @tennischannel.bsky.social. It was a week of very enjoyable tennis. #WTAFinalsRiyadh.

Elena Rybakina is SO back. She went undefeated in Riyadh, and just defeated world number 1 Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 7-6(0) in the final. She also saved 2 set points in the second set. It was a dramatic contrast in on-court personalities. #WTAFinalsRiyadh

I just went outside, comfortably, in shorts and a tank top, but on Monday, we'll have a freeze. On the #Louisiana Northshore, this weather pattern is known as "normal." 😒

Runner-up speeches aren't usually long and emotional, but Timea Babos and Luisa Stefani had a lot to say, including announcing that their partnership is ending because Babos won't play a full year in 2026. They lost today, but Babos has won the #WTAFinals three times.

Sometimes the last two standing are just who you expected them to be: World number 1 Aryna Sabalenka will face "I remembered who I am" Elena Rybakina--who has been in fine form in Riyadh--in the #WTAFinalsRiyadh final tomorrow. Neither has ever won the title.

In what may be a bit of a surprise to some, the #WTAFinalsRiyadh doubles final will be contested by 7th seeds Timea Babos/Luisa Stefanie and 4th seeds Veronika Kudermetova/Elise Mertens.

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PLAY IT BY TRUST aka WHITE CHESS SET (1966) www.imaginepeace.com/archives/24764 Play it for as long as you can remember who is your opponent and who is your own self. y.o. 1966

I went vegan because I listened to my nagging cognitive dissonance about consuming exploited, abused animal bodies. Your support of RGS helps us show others that farmed animals desrve better. Join the Herd!🐮🙏 ➡️ bit.ly/4nzXk9Y

ACLU ad: "We protect the rights of everyone." And indeed, there was a time when that was true.

Down to four womenwhoserve.blogspot.com/2025/11/down... #WTAFinalsRiyadh

Kristen Stewart: "I am not grateful to a boys' club business model that pretends to want to hang out with us while siphoning our resources and belittling our true perspectives. Let's try and not be tokenised. Let's start printing our own currency." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Rybakina into the semifinals, Sabalenka is close womenwhoserve.blogspot.com/2025/11/wta-... #WTAFinalsRiyadh

2022 champion Caroline Garcia spent some time in the @TennisChannel commentary booth, and when asked, said that she wasn't interested in coaching, but that she wouldn't mind "having a chat" with a player who wanted her perspective.

I'm pleased to announced that poetrysuperhwy.bsky.social has nominated my poem, "Launching Katy Perry," for a Pushcart Prize. You can read it here: www.poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/poetry-f... #KatyPerry

I love having all these champions do the coin toss! #WTAFinalsRiyadh

Elena Rybakina holds at love and hits an ace to defeat Iga Swiatek 3-6, 6-1, 6-0. It's an interesting day in Riyadh: Earlier Hsieh & Ostapenko upset top seeds Errani & Paolini, 6-3, 6-4. #WTAFinals

Alizé Cornet nouvelle capitaine de l’équipe de France féminine de tennis

Wk.45: "Vicky Reclaims Her Victory Vibe" ...her post-Montreal lag over, Mboko is back to her winning ways wtabackspin.blogspot.com/2025/11/wk45... backspintennis.blogspot.com/2025/11/wk45...

WTA Finals--Bosses boss on day 1 womenwhoserve.blogspot.com/2025/11/wta-... #WTAFinals

Skating to "Ray of Light!" #SkateCanada

WTA Finals group photo in Riyadh. ❤

Jessica Pegula getting ready for her fourth WTA Finals in Riyadh.

Breaking Back Wang Yafan almost quit tennis a few years ago, seriously contemplating the decision during the COVID lockdown. But, after taking a break from 2020-2022, she rediscovered her love of the game and has come back strong. Now healthy again, she outlasts Maddison Inglis in Hong Kong.

Wk.44: "Land of the Rising Bencic" ...four years after winning Gold in Tokyo, Bencic was back for something more wtabackspin.blogspot.com/2025/10/wk44... backspintennis.blogspot.com/2025/10/wk44...

Swinging into the Finals womenwhoserve.blogspot.com/2025/10/swin... #WTA

Number 10! Belinda Bencic and the newest addition to her trophy cabinet in Tokyo

Queen of Tokyo! Belinda Bencic triumphs at the last WTA 500 tournament of the 2025 season.

Bringing home the bling! 💫 Amber Glenn defends her Cup of China gold medal title and Alysa Liu secures silver! 🥇🥈 #GPFigure

"Who was this, masquerading as myself, embodied and pretending to belong? My small frame screamed the pain of this lost spirit, a woman neither dead nor of the living." —from poem no. 5, “Corona of Fragmentation” amazon.com/Cant-Recall-... #poetry #Divorce"