us open 2011: ladies' game (the glam, doubled)

gisela dulko and flavia pennetta

photographed on sept 5, 2011

© anita aguilar

us open 2011: ladies' game (shotmaking, etc)

the ferocity, the vulnerability, the delight--all doubled.
love it.

flavia pennetta

roberta vinci

sara errani

gisela dulko

all photos taken sept 5, 2011

© anita aguilar

us open 2011: the ladies' game

It is beauty itself

that lives

day by day in them

idly—

This is

the power of their faces

It is summer, it is the solstice

the crowd is

cheering, the crowd is laughing...

---william carlos williams, via the poetry foundation

roberta vinci (ita)

flavia pennetta (ita)

sara errani (ita)

gisela dulko (arg)

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all photos from sept 5, 2011

© anita aguilar

us open 2011: ladies first

my first day at the 2011 open offered big matchups, fed/cilic, serena/vika--but the seats i had at the stadium wouldn't have allowed me to get the kind of shots i wanted. so i decided to stalk the outer courts. my priority was to see dolgopolov on court 17-- i built my day around it. but i managed to sneak in a few of sharapova-slayer (flavia pennetta), and gisela-the-slender (dulko) ...

i mostly love how in sync they are on the sidelines:

all photos, sept 3, 2011

© anita aguilar