We were a scene to be seen, Anna and me.

We must have taken over a hundred pictures together. She sat in the front row, and I was behind her … well, directly behind her, sitting five feet away. And although the flashbulbs bombarded her and not me, the leftover illumination taught me that beauty can, indeed, make you go blind.

Anna held a press conference at the Terrace on the Park restaurant in Flushing, N.Y., on Thursday afternoon, teaming with Lycos -- the closest she'd get to playing doubles in Queens this year -- to unveil her new website, Kournikova.com. But of course, the main sight was not her site -- it was Anna herself.

After approaching the podium for a few words, she posed for another five-minute round of pictures. First right, then left. Her eyes excited, then calm, staring straight into the overabundance of lights. Yeah, it was obvious she was a pro at this, having her own calendar, and gracing many a magazine cover. The amazing thing was, she didn't even blink.

Normally, Anna's eyes wouldn't be the first thing you'd notice. But maybe because this new Anna Kournikova song by a group called Binge, with lyrics about her "big eyes", kept playing in the background, over and over again ... and because a billion photographers were crammed into a room with a maximum capacity of about 20, obstructing my view of the rest of her, that's what I noticed. Her eyes.

But posing wasn't the only thing she demonstrated on Thursday.

Out since February with a foot injury, she hadn't lost a step when it came to dodging questions about all things Sergei. When it came my turn to pry, I served up a subtler question: "Anna, who do you think will win the Stanley Cup this year?"

She responded with a tougher return than I could handle: "I believe I'm here to talk about Lycos and my new website. Thank you."

Ouch. An overhead smash right to the ego. No point. No volley. No nothin'.

And no, not even a blink.

E-mail Matt Wong at 'matthew.x.wong.-nd@espn.com'.