Tennis should have heard Michelle Larcher de Brito [aka 'The Shrieker'] coming

SHOOT: Click on the link below to listen to her abominable shrieking. Quite funny. Makes Monica Seles sound like The Horse Whisperer.

clipped from www.nytimes.com PARIS — At age 16 in her first Grand Slam tournament, Portuguese qualifier Michelle Larcher de Brito walked on to the world’s most important clay court full of eagerness to play her third-round match against Aravane Rezai. Two hours later, tennis’s latest precocious teen walked off the Philippe Chatrier court a loser amid a disapproving chorus of boos and whistles. She was soon in tears in the players lounge. It was a poignant, unsettling and thoroughly predictable finish to a French Open match in which Larcher de Brito’s competitive fire, scrappy defense and remarkable ball-striking were overshadowed by her shrieks and bellicose body language. Rezai’s 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 victory over De Brito was the match that will linger in memory as will the cursory handshake afterward in which De Brito tapped Rezai’s extended palm rather than shake it.