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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ? Sloane Stephens has heard a lot of advice from Serena Williams. Pointers on her groundstrokes, and even on her grunts.
It's been mostly gentle encouragement, occasionally spiced with headline-making comments from Williams, who has predicted the 19-year-old American will one day top the women's rankings.
As Stephens learned earlier this month, though, it's one thing to play with Williams, another to play against the 15-time Grand Slam champion.
When they meet Wednesday at the Australian Open, Williams will have the experience of 34 previous Grand Slam quarterfinals behind her. With a comeback 6-1, 3-6, 7-5 win over Bojana Jovanovski, Stephens qualified for her first quarterfinal at a major tournament.
"It will be tough, obviously. It's quarters of a Grand Slam," Stephens said. "There won't be that, like, first time, 'Oh, my God, I'm playing Serena.' That's kind of out of the window now. So that's good."
Williams and defending champion Victoria Azarenka advanced Monday, losing just four games between them against Russian rivals. Williams beat No. 14 Maria Kirilenko 6-2, 6-0, and Azarenka defeated Elena Vesnina 6-1, 6-1.
Next up for Azarenka is a quarterfinal against Svetlana Kuznetsova, who entered the season's first major tournament ranked No. 75 but has won titles at the 2004 U.S. Open and 2009 French Open.
On the men's side, No. 2 Roger Federer and U.S. Open champion Andy Murray stayed on course for a semifinal in their half of the draw.
Federer won 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-2 over big-serving Canadian Milos Raonic, advancing to the quarterfinals at a Grand Slam for the 35th consecutive time, while Murray took advantage of Gilles Simon's fatigue for a 6-3, 6-1, 6-3 victory.
Federer will face 2008 Australian finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who beat friend and fellow Frenchman Richard Gasquet 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.
Murray, who ended a 76-year drought for British men in Grand Slam tournaments with a win at the U.S. Open, will next play unseeded Frenchman Jeremy Chardy.
Chardy, who hit with Williams in a training camp at Mauritius at the end of 2012, followed up his upset win over 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro with a 5-7, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 victory over No. 21 Andreas Seppi.
Top-ranked Novak Djokovic, who needed five hours to beat Stanislas Warwinka in the fourth round, is on the other side of the draw. He'll face No. 5 seed Tomas Berdych on Tuesday.
Williams played Stephens at the Brisbane International earlier this month, winning their quarterfinal 6-4, 6-3 en route to the title. That night, Stephens said, she "lost to the best player in the world."
But there were times in the match when the American teenager was cranky, particularly when Williams unleashed some loud and long "Come ons" to celebrate vital points.
Stephens, looking toward her coach at one point, said the celebrations were disrespectful.
Later, she said she was just joking.
Regardless, it was a lesson. The friendly Serena from the locker room is the ultimate competitor ? she's on a 20-match winning roll and has lost only once since her first-round exit at the French Open.
"Obviously every match is a learning experience," Stephens said. "But, I mean, you've just got to go and treat it like another match."
Well, not exactly a normal match, she said, but certainly no different from playing any of the other top three players.
"It just happens to be Serena. She's obviously one of the greatest players to ever play the game," Stephens said. "Without the titles, with the titles, it's still a tennis match. The court's the same size. You're still playing a regular person across the net."
Stephens and Williams ran across each other in the locker room Sunday.
"She told me I was too quiet on the court," Stephens said. "Then today I was thinking to myself, 'I'm really loud. Should I tone it down a little bit?'"
Stephen's mother, Sybil Smith, will be watching on television. Her grandparents are avid TV fans, too. Her father, former New England Patriots player John Stephens, died in 2009.
It was her mom who introduced her to tennis at age 9. About four years ago, Williams spotted her in the dressing room and said hi.
Last year, she practiced with Williams in Fed Cup training. And last week, she was even mistaken for the five-time Australian Open champion.
"Nothing is worse than on the second point of the match, someone screaming out, 'Serena!' I'm like, 'Oh, great, here we go.' That happened first match, like loudly," she said.
Williams thinks she's more like an elder stateswoman for the younger U.S. players than mentor for the likes of Stephens.
"I just feel like being the older one ... maybe some of the younger players look up to me," she said. "It's hard to be a real mentor when you're still in competition."
And as the elder stateswoman, Williams said, "I feel no responsibility" when it comes to playing Stephens.
"I doubt she has any expectations of me to be responsible for anything," she said. "I'm here to compete and do the best I can, as well as she is. And she's been doing really amazing. I'm really happy. I have a tough match, so we'll see."
As for the advice on the grunt, Williams said a little bit of locker room banter goes a long way.
"We were the other day in the locker room. She said, 'I grunt.' I said, 'No, you don't. You're so calm. I'm like loud and outrageous,'" Williams recalled.
"She's incredibly calm. I think that's such a great thing to have. Like you look at some of the great players like Roger, he's so calm out there. That's what she has. She's like, 'I grunt.' I'm like, 'You don't grunt. What are you talking about?' I think she was maybe joking, because she definitely doesn't grunt."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sloane-stephens-advances-meeting-serena-161009097--spt.html
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New readers ? welcome! This blog is where I set up feedback threads for the latest draft story in progress. Right now I?m up to story #7. You should probably?start at story #1, though.
Current readers ? Here?s the big finale. Well, some bridging scenes, THEN the big finale.
Technically this is about two weeks of small updates rolled into one large update. I asked on my Twitter/FB whether my readers wanted it all in one go and then an empty week after, or spread out over two weeks. As proof that these are vital issues of import in your lives, a whole two people replied. I ended up flipping a coin. If it came up tails and you wanted heads, well, you?ll somehow have to carry on despite this mighty burden.
One thing I definitely would like to hear from you guys on is the upcoming Kickstarter, launching early March. I wanna make sure this is appealin? to you. Prior post I asked for some feedback on it but got nada, so lemme entice you with more details. Here?s the backer level / tier reward scheme I?ve got in mind. Keep in mind each tier includes all previous tiers, so for example, $25 has Wallpaper + eBook + VIP, etc.
$1 Desktop Wallpaper
$15 CoA eBook
$25 VIP Club Membership
$40 Paper CoA Character Bookmark (mailed to you)
$50 CoA Print Book (add $15 for international shipping)
$75 All anachronauts eBooks
$100 CoA Autographed Print Book (don?t get 2 books, I just sign your book)
$200 I write a CoA short story based on your idea
$400 Co-publisher?s credit
Look good? Price points okay? (Note the print book costs a minimum of $10 to make and ship, so I have to tier it high, but.) Any other things you?d be interested in getting as a reward?
And lest I misdirect, I also would love some feedback on the finale of 007. So, this blog post works for postin? up those thoughts too. Thanks for your help!
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Courtesy Ronald Reagan Library
President Ronald Reagan is sworn in for his second term in a private ceremony on Jan. 20, 1985, with his wife, Nancy Reagan, at his side and Chief Justice Warren Burger administering the oath in the White House Cross Hall, Grand Staircase.
By Jeff Black, Staff Writer, NBC News
Updated at 12:15 p.m. ET: For the first time since Ronald Reagan?s second term, a president has taken the oath of office for a term first in a private ceremony at the White House.
The Constitution says that the president must take office on Jan. 20. But if that's a Sunday, public inaugural festivities -- which for Obama will include a re-enactment of the swearing-in from Chief Justice John Roberts -? are saved for Monday.
So, Obama's swearing-in Sunday was a brief private affair in the Blue Room of the White House, an ornate oval room often used to receive official guests. Only Obama?s immediate family and a few reporters attended. The ceremony was televised live and streamed live on the Internet.
Reagan?s official ceremony took place at the grand North Entrance Hall to the White House, a roomy foyer where tours of the home exit onto Pennsylvania Avenue. Still, seating was limited so guests included family members of Reagan and Vice President George H.W. Bush as well as a smattering of legislative leaders and reporters.
The 1985 swearing-in of the president known as the Great Communicator was televised live. The ceremony was strikingly brief -- a few minutes at most. Reagan placed his left hand on a Bible given to him by his mother, then clearly repeated the 37-word oath recited by Chief Justice Warren Burger.
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President Reagan being sworn in for second term by Warren Burger during the "private" ceremony held at the White House
He then gave first lady Nancy a kiss, posed for a picture and briskly walked with Bush to the North Portico, where the two waved at White House press corps reporters outside.
That Sunday, however, might be better remembered for Super Bowl XIX between the San Francisco 49ers and the Miami Dolphins, which was played at Stanford Stadium in California.
A former California governor, Reagan made the opening coin toss from the White House. It was broadcast on TV via satellite hookup.
Quarterback Joe Montana, MVP of the game, threw three touchdown passes and ran for another in a 38-16 win over the Dan Marino-led Dolphins. The game was watched by some 85 million people.
Obama was sworn in well before kickoff of Championship Sunday games, in which teams vying for this year's Super Bowl will take the field.?
So, why not just skip the rerun swearing-in on Monday?
According to Meena Bose, a professor and presidential scholar at Hofstra University in New York, since the Constitution calls only for a presidential transition at noon and the oath -- and nothing more -- that?s possible. But inaugural celebrations are a tradition that goes back to George Washington.
?It would be a big problem politically for the president and his supporters and fundraisers. I'm not sure it would make a big difference to the public at large if there were no big celebrations, especially for the second inauguration,? Bose said.
?In the 1980s, there was a sense that celebration was good," Bose said. "These are much tougher times now for the country, so it?s certainly an occasion for celebration, but it?s a more workmanlike state of mind now than it was 28 years ago.?
In fact it was so bitterly cold in Washington in 1985 that the traditional outdoor inauguration was moved indoors to the Rotunda at the Capitol.
Reagan's son Ron Reagan, who provides commentary on msnbc, recalls the unusually severe temperatures and how they affected the events that Monday.
"Privileged attendees ended up packed like anchovies under the Capitol dome: family members, justices, new Cabinet members, scoundrels," Ron Reagan said in an email. "At least some of the parade was canceled over concerns that brass instruments would freeze to the lips of young marching band trumpeters, creating a grisly and appalling spectacle."
Obama will take it outdoors to the plaza at the Capitol, where he will take the oath again and give his inaugural address. The inaugural also coincides with Martin Luther King Day. An estimated 1.8 million people, the most ever to attend a inaugural ceremony, attended Obama's first inauguration, and more than 600,000 are expected to attend on Monday.?
The weather forecast is partly cloudy with a high of 42 degrees and a low of 23, according to The Weather Channel.
Woodrow Wilson was the first president to be sworn into office on a Sunday, according to the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies website.?Wilson took the office privately in the President's Room in the U.S. Capitol by Chief Justice Edward D. White. First lady Edith Bolling Wilson noted in her diary that she was the only woman present among the officials there that day.
"This simple ceremony (I was the only woman present) was more to our taste than the formal Inauguration which followed on Monday, March 5th," she wrote.
Abraham Lincoln swore the oath in front of an incomplete Capitol dome. Lyndon B. Johnson became president on Air Force One next to a dazed Jacqueline Kennedy. A collection of photographs from past presidential inaugurations.
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