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David Nalbandian (born January 1, 1982 in Unquillo, Córdoba,
Argentina) is a professional tennis player from Argentina of Armenian descent.
The last name 'Nalbandian' means 'one who makes horse shoes" in Persian.
He began playing tennis at age five. As a junior player,
he won the 1998 Junior US Open singles against Roger Federer and the 1999
Junior Wimbledon doubles titles. He turned professional in 2000. In 2001,
he finished in the ATP top 50 for the first time. He finished 2002 as no.
1 Argentine and South American for the first time in his career, winning
2 ATP titles and reaching the Wimbledon final, where he set a record and
stunned the tennis world by becoming the first man to reach the final on
his senior debut, in 2002. Since then he has continued to climb his way up
the ranks of professional tennis, and has finished each of the last two years
ranked inside the year end top ten. In 2003 Nalbandian reached the semifinals
of the US Open, where he lost to Andy Roddick though he held a match point
in the third set. Nalbandian is also one of the few active male players to
have reached the quarter-finals or better at each of the four Grand Slam
tournaments.
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