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Photos
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Anna and the Super Maria Sisters:
http://www.wtaworld.com/showpost.php?p=9528310

Rare but nice:
http://www.wtaworld.com/showpost.php?p=9571866

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The Dream
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I had a strange dream about Anna the other night. She has been much
in my thoughts lately, as I contemplate the distinct possibility of
inducting her into my Eternal Fanship.

I dreamed that I met Anna at my local tennis-centre, and that we
started a mixed-doubles match on an indoor carpet-court: I think it
was me and my sister versus Anna and my father.

I remember playing one game, then I went to my chair to make notes on
all the points in that game, so that I would be able to write up one
of my detailed match-reports. But when I had done so, I found that
the match had moved on without me! It was now 2-1.

Then the scene changed to the lawn of my back garden, which is just
big enough for a rudimentary form of tennis with a makeshift net. And
I was now playing singles against Anna. I remember playing the first
game of the match and losing it (I think it was Anna who served).

I expected to lose 6-0 6-0 (since I haven't even played physical
tennis since about March 2004), but Anna only beat me 6-2 7-5. The
rest of the match is a blur, so I can only imagine that my success
had been due to Anna's footwear: when the scene changed to my kitchen
at the end of the dream, and I saw her up close, she was wearing what
I can best describe as high-heeled clog-sandals!

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The Evaluation
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The evaluation-process to decide whether I will induct Anna into my
Eternal Fanship is underway after I recently acquired some DVDs from
Tennis Videos International
<http://www.users.bigpond.com/tennisvideos1/>.

I must say I have been very impressed by Anna so far. I already knew
that she was ultracute, with lots of lovely mannerisms, and had
developed flairsome power between Birmingham 2005 and Birmingham
2006, but now I have a deeper appreciation of her ability to generate
angles on her forehand, and just how clever she is when she looks
beaten in a rally, but knows exactly what shot to hit to make life
awkward for her opponent.

I just watched the Moscow-final for the first time, and I was amazed
by how bravely she served out the match despite looking horribly
nervous just before and during the very last game. That's the thing
about Anna - she often shows negative emotions and brilliant tennis
at the same time!

--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/tennis/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Anna_Chakvetadze/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jeldani/