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Post by R. Black on May 11, 2011 18:56:31 GMT -5
Raleigh 50K R1: Marie-Eve Pelletier (Q) d. Michelle Larcher de Brito (1)
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Post by janie on May 12, 2011 8:01:28 GMT -5
Raleigh 50K R1: Marie-Eve Pelletier (Q) d. Michelle Larcher de Brito (1)  |
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Post by Grarliner on May 12, 2011 15:13:48 GMT -5
Good grief. Someone call Nancy Loeffler-Caro. Get her back on the court.
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Post by janie on Jun 7, 2011 7:01:29 GMT -5
Bad injury to the fallen one in Birmingham qualies the other day; she left the court in a wheelchair. Here is a google translation of the only article I could find about the extent of the injury, which sounded really bad: The participation of Michelle Larcher de Brito at Wimbledon, where he would have to go through qualifying, is at risk.
This after the No. 1 national have been injured on Sunday in the second qualifying round of the WTA Birmingham, UK in the tournament which was continuing to prepare for the Grand Slam of the grass that begins in the next 20 days.
"Michelle just walks on crutches and has a lot of pain. He made a ruptured ligament and the bone is also affected," explained Caroline Brito, mother of tennis  , 18, who gave up a meeting with German Sarah Gronert, following a fall while serving in the first set 40-15 and the marker recorded a game for each side.Poor kid. Torn ACL, maybe? But maybe she needs a break to get her head settled. |
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Post by janie on Sept 12, 2012 14:40:14 GMT -5
Interesting write-up on MLDB's match yesterday by TF poster DevishAttitude:
First time I've ever watched MLDB, who has always intrigued me. She is the complete anomoly of her generation. Winning tour matches at 14, reaching Top 100 at 16, and yet nowadays is lucky to win the odd tour match every now and then.
This match showed why. She plays the completely wrong game for her build and weaponary. You cannot play a heavyweight game if you have the power of a middleweight and the serve of a lightweight, but MLDB tries to do that, with very mixed results. Aside from the second set, at no time did she ever look like hitting a player like Rampre, who moves fairly well, but who's defense essentially consists of no pace slices off the court.
It doesn't help that her attitude is poor, she has very little confidence and there is clearly zero thought going through her game. See ball, hit ball may work for the likes of Williams and Kvitova, but not for someone like MLDB, who just doesn't have the power to get away with it. Her game needs to be completely overhauled, cos if it isn't I can't see where else her game can go except downwards.
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Post by DBBN on Sept 12, 2012 15:06:12 GMT -5
If she makes the SF of Charlottesville, I will see her. So...I won't see her. LOL. She totally made that final, which I went to, and epically choked to Dubois which I've spoken about. |
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Post by janie on Sept 12, 2012 17:15:17 GMT -5
Do you agree with DeviishAttitude's assessment of her game? I mean, we all know about the lack of confidence and the insane emotions out there, but what about the rest of what he/she said?
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Post by DBBN on Sept 12, 2012 19:28:46 GMT -5
She looks a little too spindly for the game she prefers, yes. She could add mass a la Justine. But I mean, if she didn't at least TRY to hit people off the court, what else could she do? It's probably too late for a complete overhaul.
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Post by Grarliner on Sept 13, 2012 13:33:50 GMT -5
She looks a little too spindly for the game she prefers, yes. She could add mass a la Justine. But I mean, if she didn't at least TRY to hit people off the court, what else could she do? It's probably too late for a complete overhaul. Definitely. The question for me is always what made her so much better at 15, 16? Was that just before people figured out what she doesn't like.? |
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Post by Old Hag on Sept 13, 2012 15:14:55 GMT -5
It could be as simple as attitude. When I watched her as a little kid, she was as carefree and smiling as could be. When I recently saw her in a challenger, mopey, making completely senseless errors.
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Post by janie on Jan 30, 2013 19:45:40 GMT -5
So, MLDB turned 20 yesterday.  Sadly for her maniac POR fans, it doesn't look like the start of a new dawn for her. Yes she did beat the disaster that is IRO in R1 in an Israeli 75K this week, but then in r2: (Q)Tereza Smitkova (CZE) d. (3)Michelle Larcher De Brito (NOT A TEEN) 64 63 |
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Post by lexpretend on Jan 31, 2013 5:18:13 GMT -5
I've read some promising things about Smitkova - been following her progress in the Hidden World over the past year. I gather that she's one of those massive-hitting Czech bashers...
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Post by DevilishAttitude on Mar 8, 2013 7:04:56 GMT -5
See I have been mentioned again!  I felt watching the match against Rampre that one of the main issues with Larcher de Brito was her attitude. She was very flat at the start, and once things got tight in the third she rather fell apart, and pretty much gave up in the final game. She didn't look like someone who enjoyed playing tennis (I know you could say that about a lot of players, but it seemed more apparent with Michelle). She doesn't have the biggest game either, and she's lost the huge majority of her matches when a win would help her get back playing consistently on the tour, rather than being stuck in 50K challengers in the USA (her loss against Dulgheru this week is a prime example of this). In the end, her game reminds me of a challenger version of Jovanovski, which I think says it all sadly. |
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Post by janie on May 20, 2013 6:17:50 GMT -5
Michelle has apparently stabilized at the top 110-140 level, so that's an improvement over whenever I started this thread, but somehow she's still just treading water, even if at this somewhat higher level, rather than showing any signs of bounding back to the top 100. She won a Q match in the "Premier" tourney that is Brussels, so that sounds good, but then she was soundly beaten by Putintseva in Q2. Putin is 2 years younger than dB, who must be feeling pretty old by now.
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Post by janie on May 20, 2013 6:21:19 GMT -5
I confess I'm talking about this very stale topic because I can't bear to think about real, actual, current WTA players.  |
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Post by DBBN on May 22, 2013 11:36:27 GMT -5
She lost 1QR. She won't go on much longer, I don't think.
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Post by Old Hag on May 22, 2013 23:44:25 GMT -5
I confess I'm talking about this very stale topic because I can't bear to think about real, actual, current WTA players. Micaela Carolina flaming out is about the only positive of the horrific current state of SEWTA. You couldn't pay me to watch this shit. |
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Post by janie on Jun 26, 2013 13:47:49 GMT -5
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Post by DBBN on Jun 26, 2013 21:09:14 GMT -5
She was screaming. Maria was louder. She lost 1QR. She won't go on much longer, I don't think. Heh. Funny how quickly things can change. |
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Post by Old Hag on Jun 27, 2013 14:14:43 GMT -5
I guess she's like Monica, the more intense she gets, the louder the screams. Which is ridiculous.
Whoever mentioned that Micaela Carolina needs pace and Ma$ha gave it to her to redirect, appears correct. When she has to create any, she sucks. She's not sub-100 level bad, but I don't think this is a harbinger of success.
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Post by DBBN on Jun 27, 2013 15:47:58 GMT -5
I do think she is Top 100 material. She just crazy. Even when she was winning the match, she looked like she was about to start bawling at any second, and was slamming balls into the ground. She has Top 100 skills (maybe not much more) but that's what's keeping her in ITFs and qualifying.
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Post by lexpretend on Jun 28, 2013 2:20:18 GMT -5
I 100% expected her to choke vs Ma$ha given how much she chokes in the Hidden World but she kept going for her shots and making them. I agree with the assessments of her game but Kerber's made a pretty decent career out of how she thrives on redirecting pace while being unable to create her own. To have that kind of success you need maturity and discipline and fitness, though.
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Post by DBBN on Jun 28, 2013 5:41:40 GMT -5
The match today (or tomorrow) will teach us a lot. Knapp is a good player, not a great player, whose form is suspect. Both are being presented with a HUGE opportunity. It will be interesting to see how the scoreline goes.
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Post by DBBN on Jun 28, 2013 19:13:04 GMT -5
Knapp won in straight sets. So...yeah.
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Post by Old Hag on Jun 28, 2013 19:34:11 GMT -5
Not surprising.
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Post by R. Black on Sept 20, 2013 13:34:16 GMT -5
www.tennisforum.com/showthread.php?t=599225Weird. I mean... It's an ITF EVENT, not Key Biscayne. They didn't check the lockerroom before disqualifying her? The facilities can't be that big, where else can she be right before her match if not on the court?
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Post by lexpretend on Sept 20, 2013 13:42:50 GMT -5
My god, imagine the tantrum when she woke up.
Vickery got pretty lucky, huh. Instead of the #2 seed she played the girl she'd just beaten in qualies, then a w/o into the QFs.
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Post by janie on Sept 21, 2013 14:22:52 GMT -5
Ah! Explanation at last, c/p'd fr CoryAnnAvants#1 at TF:
She did not oversleep and get disqualified. The Albuquerque Journal reported on this and quoted the USTA supervisor (Missy Malool) helping with the tournament.
Michelle thought the first matches on were at 11:00 am and not 10:00 am, so she wasn't even at the site. Missy called her to find out where she was, Michelle called back at 10:25 from the hotel and basically said, "Hey, what's up?" By the time she called back, she was already disqualified. Missy did say she thought it was odd because even if Michelle were playing at 11:00, she should have been on the site at least 30 minutes beforehand to warm up, stretch, etc.
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Post by R. Black on Sept 21, 2013 17:58:03 GMT -5
I'm not surprised the original source had it all wrong, the story made no sense.
But isn't it the norm for ITF to start at 10am? I wonder what MLDB was thinking. (she probably wasn't)
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Post by janie on Oct 8, 2013 18:02:54 GMT -5
Macon, Georgia USA 25K, r1, Oct. 8 2013:
Ulrikke "so much better than Sharapova" Eikeri (NOR) d. (2)Michelle Larcher De Brito (POR) 64 61
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, 18, who gave up a meeting with German Sarah Gronert, following a fall while serving in the first set 40-15 and the marker recorded a game for each side.
