Talented and Injured Argentines: Nalbandian and del Potro
Talented, smooth-hitting Argentine, David Nalbandian, is having surgery for a left groin and leg injury which will sideline him for a couple months. Nalbandian, who reached the Wimbledon final in 2002, hopes to be back by the French Open in late May. In 2009,
Nalbandian had hip surgery and an abdominal strain hampered him last year. Meanwhile, fellow Argentine and former U.S. Open champion, Juan Martin del Potro, is working himself back into form after wrist surgery last year. It seems that when one is injured, the other is on the comeback trail and vice versa for the past couple years.
Argentina has a history of talented tennis players from Guillermo Vilas and Jose-Luis Clerc on the men’s side to the graceful and naturally-talented Maria Bueno and Gabriela Sabatini on the women’s side. However, so far Nalbandian has yet to fulfill his enormous potential. Given all of his injuries and the fact that he is nearly thirty years old, it seems as if winning the Davis Cup for Argentina is one of his primary career goals. If Nalbandian can team with a healthy del Potro in the later rounds of the 2011 Davis Cup, the Argentine team would seem unbeatable. Let’s hope that’s in the cards for both their sakes and for Argentinean tennis as well...
Argentina has a history of talented tennis players from Guillermo Vilas and Jose-Luis Clerc on the men’s side to the graceful and naturally-talented Maria Bueno and Gabriela Sabatini on the women’s side. However, so far Nalbandian has yet to fulfill his enormous potential. Given all of his injuries and the fact that he is nearly thirty years old, it seems as if winning the Davis Cup for Argentina is one of his primary career goals. If Nalbandian can team with a healthy del Potro in the later rounds of the 2011 Davis Cup, the Argentine team would seem unbeatable. Let’s hope that’s in the cards for both their sakes and for Argentinean tennis as well...
|
