My favorite shot of Russian tennis champ Elena Dementieva

My fav. tennis player Elena Dementieva beats Serena Williams in this week’s Beijing Olympics 2008. Dementieva takes the silver to Li Na’s (which incidentally, inverted to Westernized name scheme Na Li may translate as As If!) gold for beating Venus Williams!

I’ll be honest, my dementia for Dementieva is rooted in the fact that I think people with an overendowed overbite and/or upper incisors and canines are tremendously attractive. Remember Tea Leoni’s exposed upper incisors? Nice!

Okay okay, so I always root for Russians too, but contrary to what people may expect, I’m always delighted when beautiful people succeed on merit and ability. Anna Kournikova, who seemed to have made her way onto the court by appearances alone, was just so spectacularly bad at tennis, many of us wondered whether tennis would permanently turn into a dedicated spectator sport.

Dementieva, who hero-worships Martina Hingis (another possessor of maximus upper incisus) surely felt she scored for the hometeam in the well-publicized war of words between Hingis and the Williams Sisters in 1999.

Dementieva also has a bad case of the performance nerves (“stage fright”) which I can totally relate to.

But she’s a winner! Congrats to Russia and Dementieva! Yay!!!

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