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David Nalbandian (born January 1, 1982, Cordoba,
Argentina) is a professional tennis player from
Argentina of Armenians|Armenian descent. He began
playing tennis at age five. As a junior player, he
won the 1998 Junior US Open singles and the 1999
Junior Wimbledon doubles titles. He turned
professional in 2000. In 2001, he finished in the
Association of Tennis Professionals|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 championships|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.

Thus far during the 2005 ATP season Nalbandian has
won the Munich tournament.

==External link==
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