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Apr/16
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My set against Michelle Larcher De Brito at Longboat Key
56 Comments · Posted by Scoop Malinowski in Bios
Cycling Longboat Key after a sushi lunch in downtown Sarasota with my friend Nana I spotted Michelle Larcher De Brito training at the Longboat Key public clay courts. So I challenged her to a set the next day - if she can beat me I'll fork over fifty bucks (we had played mini tennis two years ago on the same courts with her winning 11-9 and 11-8). She smiled and hesitated and then agreed. I looked up her ranking at the ITF site and she's down to 227 because of missing half of last year with some kind of injury suffered in the third set of the third round of Wimbledon qualies. Continue to read full article...