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<mask> (born 27 March 1966 Tambov, Soviet Union) is a Russian politician, lawmaker and member of the 7th State Duma of the Russian Federation. In 1990, he graduated from the Novocherkassk Engineering and Land-reclamation Institute and in 2004 he became a Doctor of Technical Sciences. From 2001 to 2009, he was a Professor in the Social and Environmental Systems Management Department at the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation. Between 2007-2009, Gutenev held the position of an Advisor to the General Director of the Rosoboronexport State Corporation. On 4 December 2011, Gutenev was elected as the State Duma Deputy of the sixth convocation and, in 2011, he was appointed under the same role but at the seventh convocation. Biography
In 1990 graduated from Novocherkassk engineering and reclamation Institute. Since 1999 — candidate of technical Sciences.Since 2004 — doctor of technical Sciences. Until 2001, was engaged in scientific and teaching activities, worked in commercial organizations. 2001-2009-Professor of the Department of management of social and environmental systems of the Russian Academy of public administration under the President of the Russian Federation. 2007-2009-assistant to the General Director of Rosoboronexport. 2009-2011-Advisor to the General Director of the state Corporation "Russian technologies". On 4 December 2011 he was elected to the state Duma of the sixth convocation from the political party "United Russia". First Deputy Chairman of the state Duma Committee on industry.On 18 September 2016, he was re-elected to the state Duma of the seventh convocation. Again passed on the lists of the party "United Russia". Deputy Chairman of the Central audit Commission of the, coordinator of the center for public monitoring of the all-Russian popular front on ecology and forest protection, first Vice-President of the Union of machine builders of Russia, President of The Association "League of assistance to defense enterprises". On 10 October 2016, Kommersant distributed information about the possible resignation of the Governor of the Samara region Nikolai Merkushkin, who distributed other publications, naming <mask> as his successor. In 2018, as a Deputy in The state Duma voted to raise the retirement age

Legislative activity
From 2011 to 2019, during his term in the state Duma of VI and VII convocations, he co-authored 180 legislative initiatives and amendments to draft Federal laws. Scientific activity
In 2003-the State Prize of the Russian Federation for closed work in the interests of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation for the creation of a new type of weapons and equipment. In 2010-the Prize of the government of the Russian Federation in the field of education for the creation of a cycle of textbooks and training programs.In 2012, the Prize of the government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology. Author of more than 315 scientific and educational works, including 59 patents for inventions of the Russian Federation, 48 textbooks, manuals and monographs (9 textbooks by the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation). Two textbooks have been translated into Chinese and published in China. From 2006-2013-expert of the Higher attestation Commission. Public activity
By the decree of the President of the Russian Federation he was twice (2008-2010 and 2010-2012) a member of the Public chamber of the Russian Federation of the second and third convocations, created and headed The Commission of the Public chamber for the modernization of industry (resigned early in connection with the election to the State Duma of the Russian Federation). From 2010-2011-Chairman of the Public Council under the Ministry of industry and trade of the Russian Federation. In 2012, by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation included in the State Commission on chemical disarmament.In 2012, by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation included in the Commission for the development of General aviation. Coordinator of the parliamentary Deputy friendship group "Russia-Switzerland" . Rewards
In 2018, by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky. In 2011, by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation awarded the Order of Friendship. In 2016-honorary diploma of the President of the Russian Federation. In 2017 — Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation. In 2018-a letter of gratitude from the President of the Russian Federation.In 2016 — diploma of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. In 2016-the Badge of the Ministry of industry and trade of the Russian Federation "Medal named after the designer of small arms M. T. Kalashnikov". In 2015-the Badge of the Russian foreign Ministry "for cooperation". In 2018-a Memorial sign of the Director of the FSVTS of Russia for special merits in solving the problems of military-technical cooperation of the Russian Federation. In 2019, the FSMTC of Russia Medal "For distinction". In 2019 — Medal "for the Commonwealth in the field of chemical disarmament" . In 2013 — a badge of distinction, a medal of FMBA of Russia "for assistance to donor movement".In 2019 — Medal of FMBA of Russia "for contribution to science". In 2011 — Medal of the Federal service for environmental, technological and nuclear supervision "290 years of Federal service". In 2013 — Medal of the Federal service for environmental, technological and nuclear supervision "for merits in safety". In 2014 — Medal of the Federal service for environmental, technological and nuclear supervision "295 years of Federal service". Awarded nominal weapons. References

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<mask>v Official website

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Living people
People from Tambov
Sixth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Seventh convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
Eighth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)

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<mask> (born July 10, 1960) is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party. He represented the New York State Senate's 34th District, serving parts of Bronx and Westchester Counties from 2005 to 2018. <mask> also served as Deputy Democratic Conference Leader. <mask> served in the New York State Assembly from 1994 until 2004, when he was elected to the New York State Senate. From January 2011 to April 2018, <mask> led the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), a group of Democratic state senators who formed a separate conference and allied themselves with Senate Republicans. <mask> and his IDC colleagues rejoined the Senate Democratic Conference in April 2018. In the September 2018 Democratic primary election, <mask> was defeated by lawyer and first-time candidate Alessandra Biaggi in what amounted to a major upset for <mask> and his former IDC colleagues.<mask> remained on the general election ballot on a minor party line and was defeated by Biaggi again. Early life and education
A lifelong resident of the northeast Bronx,son of Howard and <mask>, he was educated in Bronx public schools. <mask> received his undergraduate degree from Queens College, an M.P.A. from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and a J.D. from the City University of New York School of Law, where he was a member of the law review. Career
A former chief of staff to Congressman James Scheuer, <mask> served as a Democratic State Committeeman and District Leader before being elected to the New York State Assembly in 1994. During his ten years representing the 80th Assembly District in the state legislature, <mask> served as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime and the Elderly, the Committee on State-Federal Relations, and the Committee on Oversight, Analysis and Investigations.New York State Senate
In 2004, after former State Senator Guy Velella was convicted on corruption charges, <mask> declined to seek reelection to the Assembly in order to run for Velella's seat in the New York Senate. In the Democratic Senate primary, <mask> defeated then-Assemblyman Stephen B. Kaufman. Prior to running for the Senate, <mask> was reported to be considering a race for New York Attorney General in 2006, but did not do so because Andrew Cuomo and Jeanine Pirro were competing for that position. After two years in the Senate, he abandoned plans to run for the Majority Leader position, instead opting for the Deputy Minority Leader spot. After considering a race for New York Attorney General, <mask> opted to run for re-election. In 2010, he was easily re-elected, defeating Republican Frank Vernuccio, a community activist in the Bronx. Independent Democratic Conference

In January 2011, <mask> announced that he would lead the newly formed Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), a group of breakaway New York State Senate Democrats.Following the 2010 census, New York redistricted the Senate, expanding it from 62 to 63 seats as of January 2013. The 34th district of New York Senate where <mask> was elected was gerrymandered to combine a majority white district in the Bronx with Jewish neighborhoods in Riverdale and in the East Bronx. When all election night results were tabulated on November 6, 2012, it appeared that Democrats would hold 33 seats for a three-seat majority, their third Senate majority since World War II. Yet not long after the Senate Democrats' momentous victory, on December 4, 2012, <mask> and the Republican Leadership announced a power-sharing agreement between the IDC and the G.O.P. in order to govern the Senate in a bipartisan coalition. Under their power-sharing arrangement, the IDC and the Senate Republicans jointly controlled the Senate legislative calendar (determining what bills would reach the Senate floor), made assignments to Senate committees, decided appointments to government boards, and negotiated the state budget. Sens.<mask> and Skelos also agreed that the title of Senate President would shift back and forth between the two of them every two weeks. <mask> was a prime sponsor of the 2013 New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act (NY SAFE Act), which enacted new comprehensive gun control measures statewide in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, and in response to mass shootings nationwide. <mask> was the primary sponsor of proposed "At Rest" legislation, which would require liquor sold in New York State to be stored in warehouses located in New York State. Wine retailers, New York wine producers, and smaller wine wholesalers argue that the legislation would drive up the cost of wine and spirits in New York State and significantly benefit large New York State liquor wholesalers such as Empire Merchants, which donated over $53,000 to <mask>'s campaign between 2009 and 2014. Prior to the 2013 state budget negotiations, <mask> publicly demanded that New York increase its minimum wage as part of a final agreement. <mask>'s support was seen as critical to the measure's success, which will increase New York's minimum wage to $9 per hour by the end of 2015. Liberal activists working with the Democratic Party and the Working Families Party targeted <mask> in 2014, with Oliver Koppell challenging <mask> in a Democratic primary.Due to pressure from Governor Andrew Cuomo and labor unions, <mask> indicated in June 2014 that the IDC would rejoin the Democratic caucus after the November 2014 elections. <mask> defeated Koppell. In the 2014 general election, Republicans won back the Senate majority. The election results meant that <mask> lost his position as Senate co-leader. Though <mask> had previously stated that the IDC would rejoin the Senate Democrats, the IDC decided to remain allied with the Republicans in the 2015 legislative session despite their conference's diminished role. <mask> was a partner in the law firm Klein, Calderoni & Santucci, LLP, but divested from the law practice in 2015 and continued to call for lawmakers to give up their outside income. <mask> and his IDC colleagues rejoined the Senate Democratic Conference in April 2018 at the request of Gov.Andrew Cuomo. At that time, <mask> was appointed to his former role as Deputy Democratic Conference Leader. Sexual harassment allegation
In January 2018, <mask> was accused by a female former staffer of having forcibly kissed her in 2015. <mask> denied the accusation. Despite the allegations, <mask> took part in high-level negotiations regarding sexual harassment legislation in 2018. The New York Joint Commission on Public Ethics opened an investigation into the allegation, though by the time it went to an administrative hearing, <mask> was no longer in the  State Senate, having lost his campaign for reelection. <mask> later petitioned to shut the investigation down pointing to findings by the assigned hearing officer, who had encouraged the commission to drop the investigation in June 2020, after concluding that the Public Officers Law under which <mask> was charged would not apply because the alleged incident appeared to be isolated, and didn’t affect government decision-making.JCOPE, in August 2020, voting 9–2 to proceed with the investigative hearing. <mask>'s lawyers attempted to get the lawsuit dismissed in January 2021. Yet, Vladamir and her lawyers and her organization of former ALbany legislative staffers continue to fight for justice. 2018 loss to Biaggi
Lawyer and first-time candidate Alessandra Biaggi, 32 years old, challenged <mask>, who had held the seat for 14 years, in the 2018 Democratic Primary election. <mask> outspent Biaggi by a rate of 9-to-1, spending $2 million to her $200,000. Biaggi defeated <mask> in the primary in a major upset, 54%-46%. His upset loss was attributed by some to anger with the former members of the Independent Democratic Conference.As New York's electoral fusion laws allow candidates to appear on multiple ballot lines in an election, <mask> still appeared in the November 6, 2018, general election on the third-party Independence Party of New York ballot line. Biaggi defeated <mask> again in the general election. Lobbyist
After leaving the state Senate, <mask> became a lobbyist for Mercury Public Affairs, based in New York City. Personal life
As of February 2018, <mask> was romantically involved with <mask>, a fellow Democratic State Senator. <mask> and Savino had been dating since 2008. Like <mask>, Savino is a former member of the IDC. See also
 New York State Senate
 List of New York State Senators
 2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis

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External links
 New York State Senate official site
 New York State Senate: <mask>. <mask>
 Ballotpedia: <mask>

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American law firm executives
CUNY School of Law alumni
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University alumni
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New York (state) Democrats
New York (state) lawyers
Jewish American state legislators in New York (state)
Queens College, City University of New York alumni
21st-century American politicians
Politicians from the Bronx
Independent Democratic Conference
21st-century American Jews

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<mask> (née Puusa, born 19 June 1943) is a Finnish historian specialising in urban history and the history of innovations. She is professor emerita of General History at the University of Tampere. Hietala introduced in Finland the study of innovations and international contacts. She has held a range of positions of trust both in Finland and internationally. Education
Hietala read general history, Finnish and Scandinavian history, statistics, sociology and politics at the University of Helsinki, gaining her MA in 1968, Licentiate degree in 1970 and master's degree in Social Sciences in 1971. Her PhD (1975) analysed German right-wing and militaristic nationalism on the basis of the works by Ernst Jünger and his associates. <mask>'s doctoral dissertation paved the way for using content analysis and statistical methods in Finnish historiography.Hietala's doctoral work brought her into close contact with the school of thought on the history of ideas headed by Professor Aira Kemiläinen at the University of Jyväskylä. As a result, she co-worked with Kemiläinen on the history of racial hygiene. This also informed her interest in intellectual and urban history, and the spread of innovations and international contacts. Career
Hietala opened her research career in the Ministry of the Interior and the Prime Minister's Office. She then moved on to serve as an Assistant in the Department of History at the University of Helsinki and as a Senior Researcher of the Academy of Finland. In 1994–1996, she was only the third woman to hold a Chair of General History in a Finnish university (at the University of Joensuu). Her two female predecessors were Professors Alma Söderhjelm (appointed in 1927) and Hietala's teacher and mentor Aira Kemiläinen (appointed in 1971).<mask> became professor of General History at the University of Tampere in 1996, and occupied this post until 2011 apart from a five-year period as an Academy Professor with the Academy of Finland in 2002–2007. In Tampere, a group of researchers congregated around <mask> Hietala, with a focus on the history of science and innovations, and intellectual and urban history. It was in this group that her successor in Tampere, Marjaana Niemi, completed her academic training. Focus of teaching and research
In the study of history <mask> Hietala has applied a range of methods typically used in the natural sciences, especially quantitative methods involving the analysis of long time series. She has also encouraged participation in international research groups, and has herself done comparative research in, for example, Germany and the United States. Her studies on urban history and the spread of innovations show that Finland was among the first nations to adopt technological advances (such as telephones and street lighting) at the end of the 19th century and in the opening decades of the 20th century. Hietala's comparative methods on the spread of innovations are widely used internationally.Science administration
Hietala has served science administration as a member of the Research Council for Culture and Society of the Academy of Finland (1995–2000), as a member of the Matriculation Examination Board (1993–2003), and has sat in a range of committees and working groups. She introduced the technique of oral history based on interviews into Finland, promoting a project in the 1980s to interview veteran members of the Finnish parliament. A corpus of interviews with more than 400 former Members of Parliament is now available in the Library of Parliament, and the work continues. Another long-term commitment, in the 1980s, was the UNESCO-hosted project on how internationalisation was integrated in upper secondary school textbooks in Britain, Finland, the German Democratic Republic, Italy and Poland. Hietala has acted as an external reviewer of several universities and academic fields in Finland, Europe and the United States. Her international career culminated as the President of the International Committee of Historical Sciences in the Conference in Jinan, China, in 2015. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society.<mask> <mask> (2017), Finnisch-deutsche Wissenschaftskontakte. Zusammenarbeit in Ausbildung, Forschung und Praxis im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Aue Stiftung & Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag. Katia Pizzi & <mask> <mask>, Eds (2016), Cold War Cities: History, Memory and Culture. London: Peter Lang. <mask> <mask>, Martti Helminen & Merja Lahtinen, Eds (2009), Helsinki.Helsingfors. Historic Towns Atlas, Scandinavian Atlas of Historic Towns. Helsinki: Helsinki Urban Facts. <mask> <mask>, Ed. (2006), Tutkijat ja sota. Suomalaisten tutkijoiden kontakteja ja kohtaloita toisen maailmansodan aikana [Academics and the war. The contacts and fates of Finnish academics during the Second World War].Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society. <mask> <mask> & Tanja Vahtikari, Eds (2003), Landscape of Food: The Food Relationship of Town and Country in Modern Times. Finnish Literature Society. <mask> <mask> & Lars Nilsson, Eds (1999), Women in Towns: The Social Position of Urban Women in a Historical Context. Stads- och kommunhistoriska institutet, Historiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet & Finnish Historical Society. <mask> <mask> (1992), Innovaatioiden ja kansainvälistymisen vuosikymmenet. Helsinki eurooppalaisessa kehityksessä 1875-1917, I [The decades of innovations and internationalization.Helsinki in the perspective of European development, 1875–1917, vol. I]. Helsinki: Finnish Historical Society. <mask> <mask> (1987), Services and Urbanization at the Turn of the Century: The Diffusion of Innovations. Helsinki: Finnish Historical Society. <mask> <mask> (1975), Der neue Nationalismus in der Publizistik Ernst Jüngers und des Kreises um ihn 1920–1933. Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.Family
<mask> <mask> is married to Kari <mask>, a researcher. They have three children and seven grandchildren. <mask>'s parents Nikolai and Maire Puusa were evacuees from the part of Finnish Karelia ceded to the Soviet Union in the Second World War. References

External links
 The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters presents Professor <mask> <mask> with the academy’s highest distinction, the Honorary Award, in 2017
 Honorary Membership, Finnish Historical Society in 2015 (in Finnish)
 Honorary Doctorates awarded at Stockholm University in 2012
 Outstanding Cultural Achievement Prize, Finnish Cultural Foundation in 2010 (in Finnish)
 Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
 The Veteran Members of the Parliament of Finland Oral History Archive

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Living people
Women historians
Urban historians
20th-century Finnish women writers
Finnish historians
21st-century historians
20th-century historians
University of Helsinki alumni
University of Tampere faculty
University of Eastern Finland

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<mask> ( ; born 11 February 1985) is a retired Australian professional tennis player and current commentator. Her best singles results on the WTA Tour have been semifinal appearances at the 2012 Texas Tennis Open and 2014 Birmingham Classic, a quarterfinal finish at the 2014 Indian Wells Masters and fourth round appearances at the 2008 Australian Open, the 2014 Australian Open and the 2014 US Open; she also won 22 ITF singles titles. <mask>'s career highlights, however, have all come in doubles. She has won seven WTA Tour doubles titles, 23 ITF doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed-doubles title at the 2011 French Open. She reached the finals of all four Grand Slam events in women's doubles, appearing in seven major finals from 2008 to 2017, however failed to win a title. <mask> won her biggest women's doubles title at the Premier Mandatory 2015 Madrid Open, partnered with Yaroslava Shvedova. <mask> achieved her highest singles ranking of world No.26 in September 2014, and career-high doubles ranking of No. 3 in February 2016. Personal life
<mask> lived in Woodvale, Western Australia. She attended Woodvale Primary School from kindergarten to year seven and then Woodvale Senior High School, before moving to Canberra to train with the Australian Institute of Sport at the age of 16. Throughout her early life she was an active member of local tennis clubs and teams. During her career, she came out as a lesbian and since then, she's living with her partner Amanda Judd. In August 2013, her partner, Amanda Judd, gave birth to a child, a boy named Blake Benjamin.On 27 April 2016, <mask> announced the birth of her daughter, Andie. On 12 March 2019, her third child, Jesse James Judd, was born. Career

2003–2007: First steps
From 2003 to 2007 Dellacqua won 11 singles and 13 doubles ITF titles, most of them at $25k tournaments spread out across Australia. She also won a $50k title in the Bronx in August 2007. At the 2007 US Open she won her first Grand Slam main-draw match against Yaroslava Shvedova before losing to defending champion Maria Sharapova in the second round. She finished the 2007 season ranked No. 78 in singles and 123 in doubles.2008: Breakthrough

<mask> began the year by reaching the fourth round of the Australian Open and upset 15th-seeded Patty Schnyder, and former champion and world No. 1, Amélie Mauresmo, but eventually lost to third seed Jelena Janković. The performance meant she surpassed Alicia Molik to become the highest ranked Australian female tennis player. The French Open again showed <mask>'s improved ability as she defeated the ninth-seeded Marion Bartoli and Nathalie Dechy in the first two rounds but she was knocked out in straights sets by Carla Suárez Navarro in the third round. The doubles proved to be a highlight for <mask> as she teamed with Francesca Schiavone to reach the final despite being unseeded. The pair lost in three sets to Spaniards Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual in a match that lasted two-and-a-half hours. For the first round of the Wimbledon Championships, <mask> faced the 12th-seeded Patty Schnyder, who <mask> had already beaten earlier this year in the second round of the Australian Open.Although she lost the first set to her again, <mask> had a convincing win against Schnyder. In her second round match against French player Pauline Parmentier, <mask> won a tight three set match. She faced Nicole Vaidišová in the third round but lost in straight sets. In the women's doubles event, <mask> partnered with Nathalie Dechy of France who she already partnered with at the Eastbourne Open. They started by defeating British wildcards Anna Fitzpatrick and Anna Elizabeth Hawkins in the first round. They had an easy second-round match easily beating Tatiana Perebiynis and Alicja Rosolska. They won their third round match over American qualifiers Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears and won a tight quarterfinal match against Nuria Llagostera Vives and María José Martínez Sánchez.Their Wimbledon run ended when they lost to Venus and Serena Williams in two sets. In the mixed doubles event, <mask> partnered with American Scott Lipsky. <mask> and Lipsky won their first round match against Marta Domachowska and Fernando Verdasco. In the second round, they upset seventh-seeds Mark Knowles and Yan Zi. They eventually lost to ninth-seeded Andy Ram and Nathalie Dechy. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, <mask> represented Australia in the singles event along with Alicia Molik and Samantha Stosur. <mask> had an easy first-round match against Gisela Dulko.In the second round, she lost to 12th-seeded Belarusian Victoria Azarenka. In the doubles event, <mask> partnered with fellow Australian Molik. In their first round match, they lost to the Flavia Pennetta and Francesca Schiavone in straight sets. <mask> had a bad start at the US Open after losing both of her first-round matches in singles and women's doubles. In the singles, she was beaten by French qualifier Julie Coin in two tiebreaks. In the doubles event, <mask> entered the competition seeded ninth with Nathalie Dechy, one of the defending champions of the event. They lost to Klaudia Jans and Alicja Rosolska, in three sets.In the mixed-doubles event, she played alongside fellow Australian Jordan Kerr. They lost in the second round against Jonas Björkman and Nadia Petrova. 2009: Injury troubles
<mask> started her year in a disappointing performance at the Hopman Cup. Representing Australia alongside Lleyton Hewitt, she only won one of her matches, defeating American Meghann Shaughnessy. She then participated at the Medibank International in Sydney, where she lost her first-round singles match against Sara Errani. She found better success in the doubles event, where she partnered with Nathalie Dechy, who she had played with in previous doubles matches last year. They had not lost a set coming into the semifinals, where they beat the third seeds Květa Peschke and Lisa Raymond.They then reached the finals, winning against the world No. 1's and top seeds, Cara Black and Liezel Huber. However, <mask> and Dechy lost to Peng Shuai and Hsieh Su-wei. In the first round of the Australian Open, <mask> lost to 19th-seeded Daniela Hantuchová in straight sets. She was singled out for criticism by Australian coach Roger Rasheed for carrying excess weight and not being in match condition. She found better success in the doubles event, partnering with Francesca Schiavone with whom she reached the finals at last year's French Open. Coming to the event seeded they won their first-round match against Petra Cetkovská and Carla Suárez Navarro.They then beat Alla Kudryavtseva and Ekaterina Makarova. They had a walkover in their third round match against Maria Kirilenko and Flavia Pennetta. In the quarterfinal, <mask> and Schiavone managed to win after having a bad first set against Patty Schnyder and Anna-Lena Grönefeld. They lost their semifinal against Venus and Serena Williams in just 58 minutes. Reaching the semifinal was the furthest <mask> has gone at the Australian Open. After the first Grand Slam tournament of the year, <mask> and coach Nicole Pratt decided to go separate ways. Dellaqua underwent shoulder surgery in February 2009 and was off the court until mid-2009.On her website, <mask> stated that the surgery and rehab went really well. She had stated in an interview that she would return to the WTA Tour at the start of the 2010 season. In December 2009, <mask> competed in the Australian Open Wildcard Playoff and won a wildcard entry into the main draw. She went undefeated in the round-robin stage of the tournament, and in the elimination rounds. In the quarterfinals she played second-seeded Queenslander Shannon Golds, scraping through in three sets. In the semifinals, she faced sixth seed Sally Peers, winning in straight sets. She overcame Olivia Rogowska in the final, saving three match points and eventually coming back to win in three sets.2010: Second surgery
<mask> received a wildcard into the Brisbane International, but lost in the first round to Sesil Karatantcheva. She also received a wildcard to the Sydney International, but again lost in the first round, to Vera Dushevina. In the first round of the Australian Open, she defeated Anastasiya Yakimova. She faced a tougher opponent in her second round match against Karolina Šprem, but eventually won through in two tiebreaks. She was eliminated in two sets in the third round by sixth seed Venus Williams. After representing Australia at the Federation Cup with Samantha Stosur, Alicia Molik and Rennae Stubbs, <mask> entered a $25k tournament in Mildura, which she won in both singles and doubles (with compatriot Jessica Moore). Her next tournament was a $25k tournament in Sydney.She was defeated in the second round in singles, but won the doubles title with Jessica Moore. <mask>'s next tournament was Wimbledon, where she used her protected ranking to gain direct entry into the main draw. She was beaten in the opening round by Bojana Jovanovski. <mask> took the rest of the tour-year off and missed the 2011 Australian Open due to another surgery. 2011: French Open mixed doubles title

<mask> came into 2011 having not played since the 2010 Wimbledon Championships because of injury. Her first tournament back from injury was the doubles at the $25k Burnie tournament, partnering Isabella Holland. The pair reached the second round.<mask> then played another four $25k tournaments in Australia, playing singles in the last three. In her first singles match back from injury in Mildura, she was beaten by compatriot and doubles partner Olivia Rogowska. <mask> again losing first round the next week to Sacha Jones in Ipswich, Queensland. In her final of the five straight $25k Australian tournaments, although having a bad start, <mask> defeated country woman Viktorija Rajicic. This was her first singles win in over a year. <mask> grew a lot confidence from this win and went on to win the tournament defeating doubles partner Olivia Rogowska in the final in straight sets. <mask> had major success in the doubles in these tournaments.Her and partner Olivia Rogowska went on a 16-match winning streak and won four straight tournaments. Her next tournament was her first WTA maindraw since the 2010 Wimbledon, in Estoril as a player under protected ranking. Her first round opponent was Zhang Shuai, whom she defeated in two sets. This was her first WTA main-draw match win since the 2010 Australian Open. <mask> lost to fellow Australian Jarmila Gajdošová in the second round. <mask> lost in the first round of qualifying for the Madrid Open to Anastasia Rodionova. Retired Australian Doubles great Rennae Stubbs came out of retirement to help former top-10 doubles player <mask> on her comeback from injury and played with her in numerous tournament up until the US Open.Their first tournament together was in the Madrid Open. They reached the semifinals defeating fourth seeds Lisa Raymond and Liezel Huber in straight sets along the way. This result put <mask> back in the top 120 doubles players. After failing to qualify in the Rome Masters, and <mask> and Stubbs unable to pack up their good doubles form from Madrid, her next tournament was the 2011 Brussels Open. In this tournament, <mask> used her protected ranking to avoid qualifying for a spot in the main draw. This move paid off as <mask> caused a big upset to world No. 20 and fifth seed Shahar Pe'er in the first round.This was <mask>'s sixth victory against a top-20 player in her career. <mask> lost in the second round in three sets to Ayumi Morita. <mask> received a wildcard into Roland Garros. She lost in the first round to 32nd seed Tsvetana Pironkova. In women's doubles, <mask> partnered with Australian Rennae Stubbs and reached the third round, where they lost to fourth seeds, Liezel Huber and Stubbs's last year doubles partner Lisa Raymond. This result put <mask> back in the world's top 100 doubles player. <mask> partnered with American Scott Lipsky for the 2011 French Open Mixed Doubles Championship.They had a great tournament and caused a major upset, winning the championship by defeating defending champions Katarina Srebotnik and Nenad Zimonjić in a super tiebreak, despite being unseeded. The winners split a check of $145,000. This was <mask>'s second time in a major final, but her first win in a major (singles or doubles). <mask> reached the second round of a Wimbledon warm-up tournament at the Birmingham Classic. She lost in the first round of qualifying in singles and the main draw first round doubles at the Wimbledon Championships. To warm up for the US Open, <mask> played a $100k tournament in the Bronx. She qualified and made the second round losing in three sets.In her final two tournaments before the US Open, she both times lost in the second round of qualifying. <mask> received a wildcard into the US Open and even though receiving a good draw avoiding a seed, she lost in the first round to Alizé Cornet. <mask> returned to Australia to play six straight $25k tournaments to end her year. <mask> went on a giant run winning all six events, losing just three sets in 30 matches. These wins gained her entry back into the world's top 150. She played doubles in three of these tournaments with Olivia Rogowska. Although they suffered a shock semifinal loss in their first tournament, they went on to win the next two tournaments.That meant that <mask> and Rogowska won six $25k tournaments together in 2011. <mask>'s final tournament of the year was the Australian Open Wildcard Playoff where <mask> was the hot favourite to win after her 30-match winning streak. <mask> was stunned in her first round-robin match by then 15-year-old Ashleigh Barty in straight sets. Barty went on a giant killing run to win the tournament. <mask> did recover from the first loss and won her next two round-robin matches

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<mask> had a better year in 2012, she played in the main draw of every Grand Slam event, consistently represented Australia in Fed Cup, went to the Olympics and reached her first WTA semifinal. <mask> started her year at the Brisbane International losing in the first round. She partnered with Ashleigh Barty in the doubles event. They knocked out the top seeds in the first round and eventually made the semifinals. She then played at Hobart and reached the second round. At the Australian Open, she played singles, doubles and the mixed with Chanelle Scheepers and Matthew Ebden, respectively.In the singles, she defeated Bojana Jovanovski in the first round after losing to her two weeks prior in Brisbane. She then faced eventual champion Victoria Azarenka in her second-round match and fell in straight sets. She lost in the first round of the women's doubles and second round of the mixed doubles. <mask> and Jelena Dokić won their doubles tie in the Fed Cup against Switzerland. In her next tournament, <mask> was only a matter of points away from defeating top 30 player Maria Kirilenko in a WTA event in Thailand. She eventually lost in three sets. <mask> then played two Premier tournaments in the Middle-East.A qualifying loss in Dubai and making the second round in Doha. <mask> lost in the doubles first rounds in both these tournaments with Samantha Stosur. <mask> then headed to Kuala Lumper and crushed Bojana Jovanovski. <mask> had a disspointing second-round loss to Hsieh Su-wei. <mask> made the semifinal of the doubles with Jarmila Gajdošová. <mask> then qualified for Indian Wells Open but lost in the first round. <mask> and doubles partner Samantha Stosur made the quarterfinals going down in a close three-set match.After heading to Germany to play Fed Cup. Which Australia was successful getting back into the world group, <mask> headed to Japan to play two $50k events. The first she was a shock exit in the second round on a hardcourt. The second, which was on a grass court, was a lot better for <mask> who went on to win the tournament. The Western Australian tweeted that it was tennis great Roger Federer who inspired her throughout her time in Fukuoka, the reason she altered her racquet string configuration during the week. The win in Fukuoka meant <mask> would rise into the WTA top 100 singles rankings for the first time since 2009. She then played her final French Open warm-up tournament at a $100k tournament in Prague.This was her first tournament on clay this year. Although the Fed Cup ties were on clay. <mask> had a good first round match but lost in the second round. She did make the doubles final with Akgul Amanmuradova though. They went down to Alizé Cornet and Virginie Razzano. A week before the French Open, she played doubles with Anastasia Rodionova in Belgium and made the semifinals. At the French Open, she only entered in the singles and the doubles in which she partnered Russia's Alexandra Panova.Despite being the defending champion in the mixed, she did not gain entry, though her partner Scott Lipsky did participate partnering Vladimíra Uhlířová. In the singles, she drew 21st seed and eventual finalist Sara Errani in the first round. After taking the first set, she succumbed in three tight sets. She reached the second round in the doubles, before losing to compatriots and 14th seeds, Jarmila Gajdošová and Anastasia Rodionova, in three sets. <mask> had a disappointing result at a $75k in Nottingham, although winning the doubles event with Eleni Daniilidou. <mask> then made the third round of a WTA event in Birmingham but had to withdraw from the third round after falling ill.
At the Wimbledon Championships she participated in the singles and the doubles. In the first round she drew another seed in the ninth seed Marion Bartoli she fell in two sets.In the women's doubles she partnered Samantha Stosur in what would be a slight rehearsal for the Olympic Games. They reached the second round before falling to the top-seeds Huber and Raymond in three tight sets. A month later <mask> returned to London and SW19 for the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was only entered in the women's doubles alongside Samantha Stosur, they lost to the eighth seeds Nuria Llagostera Vives and María José Martínez Sánchez in the first round. <mask> stated that the Olympics was the highlight of her year, despite playing just the one match. <mask> started her U.S. hardcourt season at a $50k tournament in the Bronx and lost in three sets in the second round. She then headed to Cincinnati to play the Western & Southern Open.<mask> beat two tall left handers in straight sets to qualify for the main draw but had a loss to fellow qualifier Johanna Larsson. <mask>'s hardcourt season got a lot better the next week in Dallas where she qualified and made the semifinals. Along the way defeating fourth seed and top-30 player Yanina Wickmayer. She almost caused another major upset in the semifinal against second seed Jelena Janković but went down in two sets. This was <mask>'s first WTA main-draw semifinal. The result also got <mask> back in the world's top 65. Taking loads of confidence into the US Open where she received a wild card in the main draw.However, she removed from the wildcard list after one of several players withdrew and was promoted to the last entry in the main draw as the fifth and final alternate in the tournament. She cruised past qualifier Lesia Tsurenko. <mask>'s draw got a lot tougher though in the second round, drawing the No. 9 seed Li Na, who had won the big warm-up tournament in Cincinnati and also the 2011 French Open. <mask> played some of her best tennis, but went down in two sets. In the doubles event Dellacua and partner Eleni Daniilidou almost took down 1st seeds Huber and Raymond but eventually going down in three sets. <mask> struggled through her Asian swing making qualifying exits in China, Japan and again in China.It got slightly better making the second round of a tournament in Osaka after the high ranking meaning she didn't have to qualify. She finished her year at a $75k event in Japan, where she lost in the quarterfinal in three sets. She went on to win the doubles event with country woman Ashleigh Barty. They didn't drop a set all tournament and won the final in straight sets. She finished 2012 ranked 88 in singles and 67 in doubles. With her singles ranking being well inside the top 100, it meant for the first time since 2008 <mask> would not have to play the Australian Open wildcard playoff. 2013: Doubles success
<mask> was scheduled to play at the Hopman Cup but had to withdraw due to an injury.Ashleigh Barty took her place. She was awarded a wildcard into the Sydney International but had a first-round loss to Kimiko Date-Krumm. <mask> was given a tricky draw at the Australian Open where she had to play young American Madison Keys who was bringing form and confidence into the match. <mask> fought hard but went down in two sets. The doubles, however, was a different story. <mask> partnered fellow Australian Ashleigh Barty who was only 16 years old. They opened the tournament by cruising past Francesca Schiavone and Polona Hercog.They stunned the third-seeded team of Maria Kirilenko and Lisa Raymond and then 14th-seeded team of Natalie Grandin and Vladimíra Uhlířová to reach the quarterfinals. The duo then reached the semifinal by defeating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Lucie Šafářová. Their semifinal was played on Rod Laver Arena and <mask> and Barty reached the final by defeating Zheng Saisai and Varvara Lepchenko becoming the first Australian duo to reach the women's doubles final of the Australian open since 1977. Despite their best efforts they were defeated by top-seeds Errani and Vinci in the final. They dropped the opening set in just 29 minutes, but gained composure in the second. In the final set, the Italians won the match and took home the title after being defeated the previous year. <mask> then headed to Thailand to play the Pattaya Open where she was a direct entry into the main draw.She played Luksika Kumkhum in the first round where she was defeated. She also played doubles with Kimiko Date-Krumm, finally winning her first WTA level doubles title. <mask> then travelled to the Czech Republic to play in the Fed Cup World Group, where Australia was defeated 4–0 by the Czech Republic. <mask> participated in the doubles alongside Ashleigh Barty, they were defeated by Czech pair Hlaváčková and Hradecká. After taking a two-week break, she then played at the Malaysian Open. She lost in the opening round to eventual champion Karolína Plíšková. She did not participate in the doubles.<mask> then participated in the Indian Wells Open. She breezed through qualifying defeating Marta Sirotkina and Nastassja Burnett. Although in the first round she was defeated convincingly by Anabel Medina Garrigues. In the doubles, she partnered alongside Date-Krumm once again, having just previously won in Thailand. They reached the semifinals but were defeated by the fourth seeds Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina in a tight three-set match. After Indian Wells, she competed in the Miami Open and drew third seed Lauren Davis in the opening round of qualifying. Despite leading 6–1, 3–1 she was defeated in three sets.In the doubles, she again partnered Kimiko Date-Krumm; they were given a tough draw against the top-seeds Errani and Vinci in the opening round. They put up a good fight, but succumbed in a third set tiebreak. <mask> took some time off in April. She travelled to Switzerland for Fed Cup but didn't participate because it was a dead rubber. She played two ITFs also, losing the second and first rounds, respectively. She then travelled to Paris for the French Open. In the women's singles draw she need to gain entry through the qualifying draw.She won her first match against Ana Vrljić but lost to 21st seed Irina Falconi in a tough three-set match. In the women's doubles she again played alongside Barty; they were seeded 14th. However, they lost in the opening round in three sets. In the mixed doubles, she partnered defending champion Mahesh Bhupathi. They also lost in the first round. <mask> then headed to the Birmingham Classic and the start of her grass-court season. She gained entry to the main draw via the qualifying draw.She was seeded 11th and defeated Vera Dushevina and Caroline Garcia in straight sets. She drew Daniela Hantuchová in the opening round and lost in straight sets. In the doubles she partnered Barty once again, seeded third, and were the eventual champions. This was <mask>'s second WTA doubles title and Barty's first. <mask> then travelled to Wimbledon for the Championships. In the ladies' singles qualifying rounds, despite defeating the top seed Paula Ormaechea in the second round, she lost in the final round to Carina Witthöft. She was seeded 12th in the doubles, alongside Ashleigh Barty, and made it to the final, losing in two sets.In the mixed doubles, she partnered Scott Lipsky with whom she won the 2011 French Open mixed title. They were seeded 13th and lost in the third round. After Wimbledon, <mask> headed home to Australia to train and spend time with her family in preparation for the US Open. At the US Open she entered in the singles, doubles and mixed doubles. In the women's singles, <mask> had to first go through the qualifying draw to reach the final. She defeated Hsu, Feuerstein and Pervak all in straight sets to reach the main draw where she was defeated by fellow qualifier Ajla Tomljanovic in three tight sets of the opening round. After this, she had the women's doubles and mixed doubles.She partnered Ashleigh Barty and Scott Lipsky, respectively. <mask> and Lipsky lost in the opening round of the mixed doubles. However, seeded 8th Barty and <mask> had a bit more luck. Breezing through to the quarterfinals, along the way defeating Cîrstea & Wickmayer, Cetkovská & Flipkens and ninth seeds Huber & Llagostera Vives. Then they defeated the second-seeded pairing of Ekaterina Makarova & Elena Vesnina, in straight sets. They continued on in the semifinals and defeated tenth seeds Sania Mirza & Zheng Jie, in straight sets. Taking Barty & Dellacqua to their second consecutive and third of the season Grand Slam final.They would meet Grand Slam champions Andrea Hlaváčková & Lucie Hradecká. They lost in three tight sets, despite a strong opening set. This meant, <mask> had now reached at least the final of each Grand Slam tournament. It was at the 2013 US Open, <mask> announced the birth of her son Blake with her partner Amanda. <mask> took two weeks off, before heading to Tokyo to participate in a WTA Premier-5 level event. In the singles, she gained entry through the qualifying draw and in the main draw she lost to 16th-seed Dominika Cibulková. She also participated in the doubles alongside Barty once again, hoping to gain enough points to reach the Tour Championships.They were seeded second and lost in the opening round. She then travelled to Beijing to in the Premier Mandatory event. She only participated in the doubles with Barty. They were seeded third and lost in the second round. This meant that Barty & <mask> were no longer within reach of qualifying for the WTA Finals. In late October, <mask> competed in the $50k back-to-back tournaments in Bendigo, Victoria. She had a successful two weeks, winning both singles tournaments back to back, defeating Noppawan Lertcheewakarn & Tammi Patterson, respectively.<mask> finished the year ranked No. 131 in singles and 10 in doubles. <mask> alongside Barty was nominated for the Newcombe Medal, a prestigious Australian

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<mask> began her 2014 season at the Brisbane International where she was awarded a wildcard into the singles main draw. She defeated Galina Voskoboeva in the opening round in three sets before losing to world No. 2, Victoria Azarenka, in straight sets. <mask> alongside Barty were seeded 3rd in the women's doubles. After winning their first round over Varvara Lepchenko and Raluca Olaru, they had to withdraw in the quarterfinals due to Barty's left adductor injury. <mask> then headed to Tasmania for the Hobart International. <mask> defeated qualifier Alison Van Uytvanck in the opening round in straight sets, but lost in the second round to Alison Riske in three sets.At the Australian Open, <mask> entered the women's singles draw as a wildcard after winning the Australian Open Wildcard playoff. Dellacua defeated former world No. 2, Vera Zvonareva and 18th seed Kirsten Flipkens to reach the third round of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time since 2010, where she defeated former Australian Open semifinalist Zheng Jie to reach the fourth round where she lost to 30th seed Eugenie Bouchard in three sets. In the women's doubles, <mask> and Barty competed as the fifth seeds but lost in the second round to Tímea Babos and Petra Martić. In the mixed doubles, <mask> partnered Ross Hutchins of Great Britain. They were defeated by the fourth-seeded team of Andrea Hlaváčková and Max Mirnyi in the opening round. After the tournament, <mask> rose to world No.80 in singles, but dropped to No. 15 in doubles. Delacqua remained on Australian soil, to participate in Australia's 2014 Fed Cup World Group tie against Russia in Hobart. In the opening rubber, <mask> defeated Irina Khromacheva in straight sets. After two more singles wins from Samantha Stosur, Australia advanced to the Fed Cup World Group semifinals for the first time since 1993. <mask> and Ashleigh Barty closed the tie by winning their doubles match in straight sets, which secured Australia a 4–0 victory over the Russians. <mask>'s first event outside of Australia for 2014 was the Indian Wells Open.Seeded fourth in the qualifying draw, <mask> defeated Anna Tatishvili and Johanna Konta to qualify for the main draw. <mask> then defeated Christina McHale 19th seed Kirsten Flipkens and 13th seed Roberta Vinci before receiving a walkover Lauren Davis in the fourth round. In the quarterfinals, <mask> lost to 6th seed Simona Halep in straight sets. This was <mask>'s best singles performance to date. She also reached the quarterfinals of the doubles event with Ashleigh Barty but the pair lost in straight sets to the top seeds, Hsieh Su-wei and Peng Shuai. She was due to meet Halep again in the second round of the Miami Open, but the Romanian withdrew from the tournament due to injury; instead, <mask> faced lucky loser Jana Čepelová, and won in three sets, thus setting up a meeting with 29th seed and former world No. 1, Venus Williams; <mask> lost in three sets.In the doubles event, <mask> and Barty lost in the first round in three sets to Alla Kudryavtseva and Anastasia Rodionova. <mask> chose not to compete in the Madrid Open and instead began her clay court season at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome. Seeded third in the qualifying draw, <mask> defeated Marina Shamayko and Paula Ormaechea to progress to the main draw where she overcame Magdaléna Rybáriková in three sets to reach the second round for the first time where she lost in straight sets to world No. 2, Li Na. <mask> also reached the quarterfinals of the doubles event with Klaudia Jans-Ignacik, defeating Katarzyna Piter/Chanelle Scheepers and Monica Niculescu/Zhang Shuai en route before losing in straight sets to Medina Garrigues and Shvedova. <mask>'s final event prior to the French Open was the Internationaux de Strasbourg where she upset the 5th seed Elena Vesnina in the first round in three sets before losing to Christina McHale in the second round in straight sets. However, <mask> won the doubles event with Barty defeating Tatiana Búa and Daniela Seguel in the final in three sets, coming back from 6–4, 5–1 and three championship points down.At the French Open, <mask> defeated Lourdes Domínguez Lino in straight sets to reach the second round for the first time since 2008 where she lost to 23rd seed Lucie Šafářová, in three sets. She and Barty also reached the quarterfinals of the doubles event, defeating Polona Hercog/Paula Ormaechea, Jana Čepelová/Stefanie Vögele and 12th seeds Kristina Mladenovic and Flavia Pennetta en route, before losing to the second seeds and eventual finalists, Errani and Vinci, in straight sets. <mask> began her grass court season at Birmingham where she competed as the 16th seed in singles and defending champion and second seed in doubles with Ashleigh Barty. <mask> defeated Urszula Radwańska and Varvara Lepchenko in straight sets to reach the third round where she upset her second-seeded compatriot and former US Open champion Samantha Stosur in three sets to reach the quarterfinals where she defeated Kimiko Date-Krumm in a match lasting just 48 minutes before losing in the semifinals to eventual runner-up, Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová. As a result of her strong singles performance, <mask> ascended to a new career-high singles ranking of No. 36 following the event. <mask> also reached the final of the doubles event, defeating Tímea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic; Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond and Caroline Garcia and Zhang Shuai en route before losing to the third seeds, Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears in straight sets.At the Wimbledon Championships, <mask> defeated qualifier Anett Kontaveit in three sets after having been match point down before falling to 4th seed Agnieszka Radwańska in the second round. Seeded sixth in the women's doubles event alongside Barty, the pair defeated Eugenie Bouchard and Heather Watson; Kimiko Date-Krumm and Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová and 12th seeds Anabel Medina Garrigues and Yaroslava Shvedova all in straight sets before losing to the second seeds and eventual champions, Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci in three sets. In the mixed doubles event, <mask> competed alongside Jamie Murray as the 10th seeds. After a first round bye, the pair defeated Andreja Klepač and Jesse Huta Galung and sixth seeds Sania Mirza and Horia Tecău to reach the quarterfinals where they fell to the 14th seeds and eventual finalists, Max Mirnyi and Chan Hao-ching. <mask> began her north-American hard-court season at the Rogers Cup. This was her first appearance at the Canadian Open and she made the second round. At the US Open, <mask> made the fourth round before losing to Flavia Pennetta, equaling her best rest at a Grand Slam.She continued her good form by reaching the quarterfinals of the Pan Pacific Open defeating an in-form Sabine Lisicki and Marina Erakovic in the first and second round respectively, before falling to Garbiñe Muguruza despite being up a set. At the Wuhan Open, <mask> reached the third round by defeating Vinci and Pavlyuchenkova, but ultimately lost to Caroline Wozniacki. 2015: Career-high doubles ranking and injury
<mask> commenced the season at the Hopman Cup, losing all three rubbers to Agnieszka Radwańska, Alizé Cornet and Heather Watson. She then played the Hobart International where she was the top seed for the first time at a WTA Tour event. She lost in the second round. <mask> then played at the Australian Open as the 29th seed. She defeated Yvonne Meusburger in straight sets before losing to eventual semifinalist Madison Keys.She also played in the women's doubles as the 15th seed with Kimiko Date-Krumm. They lost in the second round. She then traveled to Stuttgart for the 2015 Fed Cup World Group where she played in the doubles, losing to the partnership of Görges/Lisicki. <mask> next played the Dubai Championships losing in the second round to Lucie Šafářová despite winning the first set. She then traveled to the Qatar Open where she lost in the first round to Venus Williams again after taking the first set. She next played at the Malaysian Open as the third seed but lost in the first round to eventual semifinalist Hsieh Su-wei. <mask> then withdrew from the Indian Wells Open where she was defending quarterfinalist points.This saw her fall down to 42nd in the WTA rankings. Despite this she was the 32nd seed at the Miami Open where she lost in the second round (after having a first round bye) to Belinda Bencic in three sets. <mask> started her clay season at the Family Circle Cup where she again drew Bencic in the first round, she then lost in straight sets. She had better luck in the doubles partnering Darija Jurak, where they reached the final but lost to the partnership of Sania Mirza/Martina Hingis. <mask> then played the Premier Mandatory Madrid Open causing an upset over former French Open champion Francesca Schiavone in straight sets. She then lost to world No. 9, Agnieszka Radwańska, in straight sets.<mask> had better success in the doubles, partnering Yaroslava Shvedova. The pair defeated the sixth seeds Garcia/Srebotnik in straight sets and backed this up with a win over Chen/Marosi. They then defeated the fourth seeds Hsieh/Pennetta for a spot in the semifinals where they defeated the 7th seeds and reigning Australian Open champion pairing of Mattek-Sands/Šafářová. They then played in the final against third seeds, Muguruza/Suárez Navarro, and won the title in three sets. This was <mask>'s first Premier Mandatory title and her fourth doubles title overall. <mask> then withdrew from the Italian Open and Strasbourg Open. She then played at the French Open singles where she lost in the first round to fellow Aussie Ajla Tomljanović.<mask> partnered again with Yaroslava Shvedova where they reached their first Grand Slam final as a team. They defeated Chan/Davis, Cornet/Linette, and 8th seeds Garcia/Srebotnik to reach the quarterfinals. They followed this up with straight sets wins over 13th seeds Krajicek//Strýcová and second seeds Makarova/Vesnina to reach the final. The pair then lost in three sets to the reigning Australian Open champions Mattek-Sands/Šafářová. <mask> began her grass-court season at the Nottingham Open where she was the sixth seed. She defeated Sesil Karatantcheva in the first round before losing to eventual champion Ana Konjuh. Her next tournament was the Premier level Birmingham Classic where she defeated Lauren Davis in the first round.She next faced former world No. 1, Jelena Janković, and lost in straight sets. <mask> next played at Eastbourne where she defeated Anna Karolina Schmiedlova in the first round before losing to eighth seed Karolína Plíšková. <mask> then played at Wimbledon where she defeated former Wimbledon quarterfinalist Tamira Paszek in straight sets. She then caused a big upset over 17th seed and recent French Open quarterfinalist Elina Svitolina to reach the third round and equal her best Wimbledon performance. She then played former Wimbledon finalist and 13th seed Agnieszka Radwańska and despite leading 4–0 in the second set, she lost in straight sets. She also contested the women's doubles with Shvedova as the ninth seeds.They lost in the quarterfinals to Hingis/Mirza, 5–7, 3–6. <mask> began her summer hard-court season participating the qualifying event at the Rogers Cup, but fail to get to the main round. In first round, she teamed with Yaroslava Shvedova but lost to all-rising-stars pair Kristina Mladenovic and Karolína Plíšková. Her next event was Cincinnati Open. She qualified to the main round, but lost to Mona Barthel in the first round. In doubles event, she and Shvedova reached the final, where they lost to the sisters pair Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan. At the Connecticut Open, she and Shvedova lost in the quarterfinals. At the US Open, she lost in the first round to qualifier Anett Kontaveit in the singles competition.However, she teamed with Yaroslava Shvedova to reach their second Grand Slam final of the year in the doubles competition. Once again, they finished runner-up, this time to top-seeded pair Mirza/Hingis, which means <mask>'s Grand Slam final record in women's doubles event fell to 0–6. In October, <mask> was in the women's doubles semifinal of the China Open when she fell and hit her head on the cement. This forced <mask> and Shvedova to withdraw from the 2015 WTA Finals. 2016: Limited play
Still suffering the effects of the fall at the 2015 China Open, <mask> withdrew from the Australian summer. In February, <mask> travelled to Bratislava to play Fed Cup and partnered Samantha Stosur to win the deciding rubber against Slovakia. In March, <mask> was given a wildcard into the San Antonio Open.This was her first singles match in five months. She lost 1–6, 0–6 to Tsvetana Pironkova. While she wanted to play Indian Wells and Miami, she realised she wasn't "physically and mentally 100%" so decided to take more time off and get it right. She didn't play again in 2016. 2017: Doubles return
<mask>'s comeback commenced at the Brisbane International where she was given a wildcard into the women's doubles with Ashleigh Barty. The pair lost in the first round, 17–19 in the match tie-break to Srebotnik/Spears. <mask> and Barty were given wildcards into the Australian Open.Together, they reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open for the second time, after wins over Kichenok/Kichenok, Hingis/Vandeweghe and

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<mask> (née Rose Marie Margarethe Elisabeth Kögel); (5 March 1907 – 9 January 1990) was a German photographer. She worked as theatre and portrait photographer and received several awards for her work. Life
Born in  near Berlin, <mask> was a granddaughter of the Oberhof and Domprediger  and daughter of the pastor and school councillor Rudolf Kögel and his wife Sabine, née Gehring. In 1934, she married the journalist and film producer <mask> (1905–1944), who was killed as a pilot of a night fighter during the "Big Week". <mask>, who originally wanted to become a portrait painter, completed an photographer apprenticeship with Marie Böhm, the head of the renowned studio Becker & Maass, and after three years passed the assistant examination with distinction at the Lette-Verein in Berlin. Afterwards, she worked from 1929 until autumn 1933 as assistant to the theatre photographer Elli Marcus and after her emigration with her own studio in Berlin-Schmargendorf, at many Berlin theatres, among others the Preußisches Staatstheater Berlin under Gustaf Gründgens, until its general closure due to the war. Numerous photographic portraits were taken, among others of Kurt Hirschfeld.According to art historian Gabriele Lohmann, <mask> was one of those photographers during the National Socialist era who had nothing to fear from persecution, as she fulfilled the requirements of the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda and the Reichskulturkammer and her works were "suitable for propaganda". With their work, these photographers contributed to shaping the general self-image of the National Socialist Volksgemeinschaft as well as Women in Nazi Germany in particular. At the end of the 1930s, <mask> took numerous private photographs for the family Hermann Göring, which were distributed as picture postcards. She also illustrated journalistic propaganda reports, for example a  on Göring in 1941 and in 1936 a report on the construction of the autobahn under the title Die Straßen des Führers. In 1941, her photographs – besides those of  and Erna Lendvai-Dircksen – were shown in an exhibition compiled by the Reichsfrauenführung under the title Frauenschaffen in Deutschland in the German-occupied Netherlands, for the first time from October 1941 in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, with further stations in Utrecht, Maastricht and Arnhem. In the same year, she published photographs of death masks of "great Germans" (including Austrians such as Adalbert Stifter) under the title Die Vollendeten. "In dynamic photographs", the dead – according to the perception of art historian Isabel Richter 2010 – "looked down on the viewers in a sovereign, sublime and heroic manner".What unites them, <mask> says in the foreword to the book, is that they are all united in one, "in the one word – GERMAN" (hervorh. i. Orig.) Some of her railway photographs were included in the 1930s editions of the Deutsches Reichsbahnkalender. From 1945, <mask> worked in Hamburg, where she had fled with her three children after the death of her husband, at the Hamburger Kammerspiele, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, the Thalia Theater and the Ernst Deutsch Theater and elsewhere, and also included the pantomime (Marcel Marceau). She was also important as a portrait photographer (K.R.H. Sonderborg, Jean-Louis Barrault, Samuel Beckett and others).With Wolfgang Borchert she had a close friendship in the post-war period. She made numerous portraits of the then still unknown writer. Her pictures remained formative for the Borchert picture after his death. The Wolfgang Borchert stamp of the Deutsche Bundespost shows a Clausen motif. She published in magazines and newspapers, as well as illustrated books and, from 1962 to 1972, theatre calendars. For many years, <mask> illustrated the annual calendar of the Theater heute magazine. She was a member of the "Gesellschaft deutscher Lichtbildner" (GdL), the German Society for Photography (DGPh), the Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg und Ehrenmitglied of the .Fritz Peyer and Ute Karen Seggelke were among her students

Her son was the sociologist <mask>, her brother-in-law the actor <mask>, her grandniece the actress <mask>. <mask> died in Hamburg at the age of 82. Her grave with the grave number O8, 236 is located at the Ohlsdorf Cemetery. Her artistic estate was administered by Bettina <mask>. Awards
 1955: Großer Preis der Internationalen Ausstellung für Bühnenphotographie Salzburg
 1976: Kulturpreis der German Society for Photography − together with Regina Relang and Liselotte Strelow
 1982: Biermann-Ratjen-Medaille of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Legacy
<mask>'s archive was lost in 1945 in Berlin during an air raid. However, an extensive collection of her exhibits is in the possession of the Hamburg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe.The negative archive, which was created after the end of the Second World War, lies in the Zentrum für Theaterforschung – Hamburger Theatersammlung of the University of Hamburg and the positive archive in the Theatermuseum München and the <mask> Clausen – Künstlerischer Nachlass GbR in Potsdam, represented by its managing director Dr. Peer-Robin Paulus. Work
Mensch ohne Maske, Stuttgart: Tazzelwurm 1938
Die Vollendeten, Stuttgart: Tazzelwurm 1941 (death masks)
Ewigkeit schwingt über ihnen Kreise, Pforzheim: Imago o.-J. [1952]
Schrift und Maske, Hamburg:  1958 (several editions)
Theater. Gustaf Gründgens inszeniert, Hamburg: Christian Wegner 1960
Gründgens, Velber: Friedrich 1963
Faust in Bildern, Braunschweig: Westermann, [1960] 1964, 7th edition. Schauspieler (text: ), Frankfurt: Büchergilde Gutenberg 1966
Barlach, Hamburg: Christian Wegner ²1966
Begegnungen, Cologne: DuMont Schauberg 1967
Schauspiegel, Velber: Friedrich [1963] ²1968
Samuel Beckett inszeniert, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 1969 (several edition)
Hamburger Thalia-Theater – Boy Gobert, Hamburg: Kristall-Verlag 1980
Gründgens Faust. Berlin: Suhrkamp [1982] ²1983
<mask> <mask>, , Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg 1988 (Exhibition catalogue)

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<mask>  (3 February 1916 – 5 April 2012) was an Australian historian and author of several text books and historiographies on Australian and Victorian history. He taught at the University of Melbourne and the University of Sydney, and was Professor of History at Monash University from 1964 until his retirement in 1981. Early life
<mask> was born in Melbourne on 3 February 1916 to <mask>, a solicitor, and his wife Ethel née <mask>. <mask> was educated at Melbourne Grammar School where he was on the debating team, played violin in the orchestra and was awarded the <mask> Scholarship for Classics or Modern Languages. He entered Trinity College at the University of Melbourne in 1935, where he was President of the Dialectic Society in 1938. After graduating as a Bachelor of Arts (BA) with first-class honours in history and political science, <mask> tutored at Trinity College before leaving for further study at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating BA (later MA) with first-class honours in philosophy, politics, and economics in 1940. While there, he was a member of the Oxford Union and the Oxford University Music Society.Academic career
<mask> returned to Australia in 1940, working for the federal Departments of Information, Army and Post-War Reconstruction. From 1941, alongside these government positions, <mask> returned to Melbourne University as part-time Lecturer in Economic History and Tutor at Trinity College. During 1944 <mask> was appointed as joint Acting Dean of Trinity College, and as Dean in 1947. <mask> was Captain of the squash team, and Vice-President of the Dialectic Society at Trinity from 1941 to 1950. In 1946, <mask> became Lecturer in Modern History. He was associate editor of the journal Historical Studies (now Australian Historical Studies) from 1949 to 1951, and was a member of its editorial board. In 1950 he was awarded a Nuffield Dominion Travelling Fellowship and spent a year undertaking research in England into Australia's convict period.On his return to Australia in 1952, <mask> became Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Sydney, and from 1953 to 1956 was Sub-Warden at St Paul's College. He was the inaugural President of the History Teachers' Association of New South Wales from 1960 to 1964, and was co-editor of its journal, Teaching History. While in Sydney, he served on the Council of the Royal Australian Historical Society, and was editor of their journal from 1954 to 1964. He was the first professionally trained historian to edit the journal. In the early 1960s <mask> was called upon to adjudicate on the long-running Australian TV quiz show Pick A Box when contestant Barry Jones disputed the answer given to the question "Who was the first British Governor-General of India?". <mask> returned to an academic position in Melbourne in 1964 as Professor of Modern History at Monash University, only three years after teaching commenced there. He held this post until his retirement in 1981, at which time he was granted the status of Emeritus Professor.He served as a member of the Monash University Council from 1977 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1991. He was general editor of the three-volume official history of Victoria published for the state's sesquicentenary in 1984. For the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia he edited a series of lectures in celebration of the sesquicentenary, published as Victoria's Heritage (1986). Reputation and service
A review of his History of the Port Phillip District (1996) thought it a "meticulously researched and carefully crafted work which <mask>'s earlier writings have led us to expect." The reviewer in Australian Historical Studies noted that <mask> handed his sources "judiciously, scrupulously and respectfully," and that "in another ninety-four years, men and women will still be turning to <mask>'s work with faith and confidence". In 1987 <mask> was elected President of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, and also served as a member of their Finance, Fellowship, Speakers and Editorial committees. Upon his resignation in 1991, the Society thanked him for the "benefit of his wise counsel, erudition, discernment and gentle humour,"

<mask> helped found the Friends of the La Trobe Library, now incorporated as the State Library Foundation, and was President of the C.J.La Trobe Society from 2002 to 2003. The State Library of Victoria recognised his contributions in the naming of its annual "AGL Shaw Summer Research Scholarships". The RHSV and the La Trobe Society also conduct a joint annual A.G.L. <mask> lecture in his honour. <mask> was a benefactor to Melbourne Opera, and, due to his long association through art connections of his wife, Peggy Perrins <mask> (1917–2009), a major supporter and benefactor of the National Gallery of Victoria, creating the Shaw Research Library, now home to over 50,000 volumes. In his retirement, he did not give up teaching altogether, presenting lectures for the University of the Third Age (U3A) for many years. Honours and awards
<mask> was elected as both a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) and of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia (FASSA) in 1967, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria (FRHSV) in 1973, a Fellow of the Royal Australian Historical Society in 1979, and as the first Fellow of the Federation of Australian Historical Societies in 1998.In 2002, having sat on the editorial board from its formation in 1960 until 1999, as well as being Section Editor for the first two volumes and contributing ten articles, he was awarded the inaugural Medal of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. In the 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours, <mask> was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for services to education. He was bestowed with an Honorary Doctor of Letters (HonLittD) from the University of Newcastle in 1984. At Trinity College, <mask> was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1983 and elevated to Senior Fellow in 2011. In 1962 the distinguished artist John Olsen completed an oil portrait of <mask>, which, since 2007 when <mask> donated it to Trinity College, has been part of the College's art collection. Public offices held
 Council of the Royal Australian Historical Society (1954-1958, 1960-1962, 1964)
 President of the History Teachers' Association of New South Wales (1960–1964)
 Council of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria (1965–1971)
 Trinity College Council (1968–1978 and 1984–2005)
 Inaugural President of the Australian Historical Association (1973–1974)
 Member of the Library Council of Victoria (1976–1985)
 Monash University Council (1977–1979 and 1989–1991)
 President of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia (1978–1981)
 Chairman of the Public Records Advisory Council of Victoria (1979–1986)
 Chairman of the History and Literary Committee of the 150th Anniversary of Victoria Celebrations (1980–1983)
 Associate Editor for Australia of the New Dictionary of National Biography (1984–2002)
 President of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria (1987–1991)
 President of the C. J. La Trobe Society (2002–2003)

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Books
 Economic Controls and Australia (Australian Army Education Service, ca.1944)
 The Economic Development of Australia (1944)
 The Empire (Australian Army Education Service, ca. 1945)
 Australia and the British Commonwealth (RAAF Educational Services, ca. 1946)
 (with <mask> Bruns) The Australian Coal Industry (University of Melbourne, 1947)
 Our Coal (1949)
 The Story of Australia (1955)
 Modern World History: Social, Political and Economic Development, 1780–1950 (1959)
 (with H.D. Nicholson) An Introduction to Australian History (1961)
 Emergence and Expansion: A Modern World History (1964)
 Convicts and the Colonies: A Study of Penal Transportation from Great Britain and Ireland to Australia and other Parts of the British Empire (1966)
 (with H.D. Nicholson) Growth and Development in Australia: An Introduction to Australian History (1966)
 Heroes and Villains in History: <mask> and Bourke in New South Wales (1966)

 A Short History of Australia: Part 1 (1967)
 (with H.D. Nicholson) Australia in the Twentieth Century: An Introduction to Modern Society (1967). Great Britain and the Colonies, 1815–1865 (1970)
 Ralph Darling (1971)
 Sir <mask>, Bart, 1784–1854 (1980)
 Reflections on Australian History and its Writings (1985)
 (ed.)Victoria’s Heritage (AAH and ASSA, 1986)
 (ed.) Gipps – La Trobe correspondence 1839–1846 (1989)
 History of the Port Phillip District (1996)

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<mask> (born 3 January 1946), better known by his stage name <mask>, is an English musician, composer and record producer who was the bassist and keyboardist for the rock band Led Zeppelin. Prior to forming the band with Jimmy Page in 1968, he was a session musician and arranger. After the death of drummer <mask> in 1980, Led Zeppelin disbanded, and <mask> developed a solo career. He has collaborated with musicians across a variety of genres, including the supergroup Them Crooked Vultures with Dave Grohl and Josh Homme. Biography

Early years
<mask> was born in Sidcup, Kent, England on 3 January 1946. He started playing piano at age six, learning from his father, Joe Baldwin, a pianist and arranger for big bands in the 1940s and 1950s, notably with Ambrose and his Orchestra. His mother was also in the music business which allowed the family to often perform together touring around England as a vaudeville comedy act.His influences ranged from the blues of Big Bill Broonzy, the jazz of Charles Mingus, to the classical piano of Sergei Rachmaninoff. Because his parents often toured, Baldwin was sent to boarding school at a young age. He was a student at Christ's College, Blackheath, London where he studied music formally. At the age of 14, Baldwin became choirmaster and organist at a local church and during that year, he also bought his first bass guitar, a Dallas Tuxedo solid body electric followed by multiple basses which he part exchanged until he finally bought his 1962 Fender Jazz Bass which he used until 1976. The fluid playing of Chicago musician Phil Upchurch on his You Can't Sit Down LP, which includes a memorable bass solo, is cited by <mask> as being his inspiration to take up the instrument. Session work
Baldwin joined his first band, The Deltas, at the age of 15. He then played bass for jazz-rock London group, Jett Blacks, a collective that included guitarist <mask>.His big break came in 1962, when he was hired by Jet Harris and Tony Meehan of the successful British group The Shadows for a two-year stint. Shortly before hiring Baldwin, Harris and Meehan had just had a Number 1 hit with "Diamonds" (a track on which <mask>' bandmate-to-be Jimmy Page had played.) Baldwin's collaboration with the Shadows nearly prevented the future formation of Led Zeppelin, when the parties engaged in talks about the possibility of Baldwin replacing their bassist Brian Locking, who left the band in October 1963, but <mask> was ultimately chosen to fill the position. In 1964, on the recommendation of Meehan, Baldwin began studio session work with Decca Records. From then until 1968, he played on hundreds of recording sessions. He soon expanded his studio work by playing keyboards, arranging and undertaking general studio direction, resulting in his services coming under much demand. He worked with numerous artists including the Rolling Stones on Their Satanic Majesties Request (<mask>' string arrangement is heard on "She's a Rainbow"); Herman's Hermits; Donovan (on "Sunshine Superman," "Hurdy Gurdy Man," and "Mellow Yellow"); Jeff Beck; Françoise Hardy; Cat Stevens; Rod Stewart; Shirley Bassey; Lulu; and numerous others.As well as recording sessions with Dusty Springfield, <mask> also played bass for her Talk of the Town series of performances. His arranging and playing on Donovan's "Sunshine Superman" resulted in producer Mickie Most using his services as choice arranger for many of his own projects, with <mask>, Nico, Wayne Fontana, the Walker Brothers, and many others. In 1967, Most, as music supervisor, also tabbed <mask> to arrange the music for Herman's Hermits' theatrical film Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter, released in January 1968. Such was the extent of <mask>' studio work – amounting to hundreds of sessions – that he said years later that "I can't remember three-quarters of the sessions I was on." It was during his time as a session player that Baldwin adopted the stage name <mask> <mask>. This name was suggested to him by a friend, Andrew Loog Oldham, who had seen a poster for the 1959 film <mask> <mask> in France. He released his first solo recording as <mask> <mask>, "Baja" (written by Lee Hazlewood and produced by Oldham) / "A Foggy Day in Vietnam", as a single on Pye Records in April 1964.<mask> has stated that, as a session musician, he was completing two and three sessions a day, six and seven days a week. However, by 1968 he was feeling burned out by the heavy workload: "I was arranging 50 or 60 things a month and it was starting to kill me." Career

Led Zeppelin

Formation
During his time as a session player, <mask> often crossed paths with guitarist Jimmy Page, a fellow session veteran. In June 1966, Page joined The Yardbirds, and in 1967 <mask> contributed to that band's Little Games album. The following winter, during the sessions for Donovan's The Hurdy Gurdy Man, <mask> expressed to Page a desire to be part of any projects the guitarist might be planning. Later that year, The Yardbirds disbanded, leaving Page and bassist Chris Dreja to complete previously booked Yardbirds dates in Scandinavia. Before a new band could be assembled, Dreja left to take up photography.<mask>, at the suggestion of his wife, asked Page about the vacant position, and the guitarist eagerly invited <mask> to collaborate. Page later explained:

Vocalist Robert Plant and drummer <mask> joined the two to form a quartet. Initially dubbed the "New Yardbirds" for the Scandinavian dates, the band soon became known as Led Zeppelin. Contribution to the band

<mask> was responsible for the classic bass lines of the group, notably those in "Ramble On" and "The Lemon Song" (Led Zeppelin II), and shifting time signatures, such as those in "Black Dog" (Led Zeppelin IV). As half of Led Zeppelin's rhythm section with drummer <mask>, <mask> shared an appreciation for funk and soul rhythmic grooves which strengthened and enhanced their musical affinity. In an interview he gave to Global Bass magazine, <mask> remarked on this common musical interest:

After retiring his Fender Jazz Bass (which he had been using since his days with The Shadows in the early 1960s) from touring in 1975, <mask> switched to using custom-designed Alembic basses for touring. However, he still preferred to use the Jazz Bass in the studio and in a 2010 interview mentioned that he still had that bass at the time.<mask>' keyboard skills added an eclectic dimension that realised Led Zeppelin as more than just a hard rock band. Keyboard highlights include the delicate "The Rain Song" (Houses of the Holy) played on a Mellotron; the funky "Trampled Under Foot", played on a Clavinet (Physical Graffiti); and the eastern scales of "Kashmir", also played on a Mellotron (also on Physical Graffiti). In live performances, <mask>' keyboard showpiece was "No Quarter", often lasting for up to half-an-hour and sometimes including snatches of "Amazing Grace", Joaquín Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez", which had inspired Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain, and variations of classical pieces by composers such as Rachmaninoff. <mask>' diverse contributions to the group extended to the use of other instruments, including an unusual triple-necked acoustic instrument consisting of a six and a twelve string guitar, and a mandolin. <mask> often used bass pedals to supplement the band's sound while he was playing keyboards and mandolin. On the band's 1977 tour of the United States, <mask> would sing lead vocals on "The Battle of Evermore," filling in for Sandy Denny, who had sung on the studio version. Profile
While all members of Led Zeppelin had a reputation for off-stage excess (a label that has been claimed was exaggerated), <mask> was widely seen as the most quiet and reserved member of the group.For his part, <mask> has claimed that he had just as much fun on the road as his bandmates but was more discreet about it, stating "I did more drugs than I care to remember. I just did it quietly." Benoit Gautier, an employee of Atlantic Records in France, echoed this impression, stating that "The wisest guy in Led Zeppelin was <mask> <mask>. Why? He never got caught in an embarrassing situation." In an interview, <mask> explained that fame with Led Zeppelin was not something that he ever became preoccupied with:

Following exhausting tours and extended periods of time away from his family, by late 1973 <mask> was beginning to show signs of disillusionment. He considered quitting Led Zeppelin to spend more time with his family, but was talked into returning by the band's manager, Peter Grant.He joked that he was interested in becoming the choirmaster of Winchester Cathedral, which was reported as fact in several sources. <mask> later explained his reservations:

"Royal Orleans"
It is rumoured that the Led Zeppelin song "Royal Orleans", from their album Presence, is about an experience <mask> once had on tour in the United States. The song is about a person who mistakenly takes a drag queen up to his hotel room, who then falls asleep with a joint of marijuana in hand, lighting the room on fire. "Royal Orleans" was the name of a hotel where the members of Led Zeppelin would stay when they visited New Orleans, because not as many people asked for autographs there. In an interview he gave to Mojo magazine in 2007, <mask> clarified the reliability of this rumour, stating:

Other work during time with the band
<mask>'s involvement with Led Zeppelin did not put a halt to his session work. In 1969 he returned to the studio to play bass guitar on The Family Dogg's A Way of Life album. <mask> was Madeline Bell's first choice to produce and arrange her

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