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Name: Laura Dall'Olio
Date of birth: 08/01/1983
Zodiacal sign: Capricorno
Residence: Imola (BO), Italy
Sports: Volleyball, from the age of 8. Now tennis
Supporter: SOCCER: Inter Milan (Ivan Zamorano, Javier Zanetti, Esteban Cambiasso, Luis Hernandez)
VOLLEYBALL: Irina "la Divina" Kirillova, Andrea Giani, Nikola Grbic
TENNIS: Jennifer Capriati
(Lindsay Davenport, Corina Morariu, Pete Sampras, Carlos Moya, Mark Philippoussis, Xavier Malisse, Fernando Verdasco, Arnaud Clement,
Nikolay Davydenko)
BASKET: Virtus Bologna (Predrag "Sasha" Danilovic)
Books: Stephen King, Agatha Christie
Films: Premonition, The Lake House, The Mighty, The Green Mile, It
Tv series: X-Files, Hunter, ER
Actresses: Sandra Bullock, Stepfanie Kramer, Gillian Anderson
Music: The Cranberries, Laura Pausini, Anastacia
Others: The 105 Zoo
I'm a huge Jennifer's fan since the wonderful 2002 Australian Open final.
I have always loved watching and practicing sports. When I was a child, I started to play volleyball because it was my favourite sport. Tennis wasn't
very popular in Italy in that period and I never watched it.
When Jennifer turned pro in 1990, I was only 7 years old and I didn't have any occasions to watch a tennis match. In the following years it was the
same, until 2002.
In January of that year by pure chance I watched a couple of points of the Australian Open and I liked it. The women's final was on Saturday night
Italian time and I recorded it on tape. I wanted Jen to win even if I had never seen her before, because I didn't like Hingis at all.
Jennifer was down 4-6, 0-4 and she wasn't playing well... she was too nervous and the incredibly hot temperature didn't help her either. I thought that she could
never win. But Jennifer didn't give up.
She denied four match points in the second set and finally won it at the tie-break; then she easily conquerred the third one and the title.
I was so impressed by Jen! I liked her way of playing, her fighting spirit, her attitude to never give up and I absolutely loved when hers screaming
"C'mon" and hers yelling at the chair umpire or complaining about line calls.
I became her huge fan and she became a wonderful life-example to follow for me.
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