pls win another slam

http://www.wtatennis.com/videos/article/3511126/title/istanbul-shot-of-the-day-friday

she has such good hands.

i love her best when she's going all out in big babe ballbasher mode, putting the ball away in a 1-2. but she does have great racquet control. if only her mental control were half as good. :[

pissed i'll be missing her match against li na.

to read before the end of the year:

* grendel by john gardner (for realsies this time)
* me talk pretty one day by david sedaris
* vanishing point: not a memoir by ander monson
* texts of terror: literary-feminist readings of biblical narratives by phyllid trible