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Daily Bagel: Chakvetadze runs for office

The Daily Bagel is your dose of the interesting reporting, writing and quipping from around the Internet. • Anna Chakvetadze, a 2007 U.S. Open semifinalist, is

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• Anna Chakvetadze, a 2007 U.S. Open semifinalist, is running for office in Russia. I hope her diplomacy skills have evolved since Russia's Fed Cup tie against Israel (video above). For Russia's sake.

• The SI.com team takes stock of Serena Williams' career.

Novak Djokovic is feeling better, but still unsure for the Asian tournaments. He's using his time to visit kids as part of his first mission as a UN ambassador.

• World No. 74 Kataryna Bondarenko got married in Ukraine.

USA Today looks at some of the storylines going into the fall.

• Peter Bodo ponders the fine line between intensity and arguing.

• Check out all of Sam Stosur's 180 clean winners from her seven matches at the U.S. Open.

profile of the Upright Citizens Brigade

New York Magazine

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Courtney Nguyen
COURTNEY NGUYEN

Contributor, SI.com Nguyen is a freelance writer for SI.com, providing full coverage of professional tennis both on and off the court. Her content has become a must-read for fans and insiders to stay up-to-date with a sport that rarely rests. She has appeared on radio and TV talk shows all over the world and is one of the co-hosts of No Challenges Remaining, a weekly podcast available on iTunes. Nguyen graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received a law degree from the University of California, Davis in 2002. She lives in the Bay Area.