Who wants another old-fashion Nadal whippin'?
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...Monte Carlo for the fifth straight year, and is threatening to do the same at Barcelona. David Nalbandian, penciled in as Nadal's quarterfinal opponent, pulled out of Barcelona with a bum hip. Far...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 24, 2009Not a snowball's chance to win Down Under
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...06. Since then, he has passed the elite-eight mark just once and is actively challenging David Nalbandian for the "fatso award" that goes to the most out-of-shape guy on the tour...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 16, 2009Tennis topics to help you survive the holiday party
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.comThis is holiday party week, which means you really have to be on your verbal game in order to make the most of all the time you'll spend chit-chatting...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 15, 2008Yet another year-end best and worst list -- sort of
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...home in the Davis Cup final on a fast surface ideally suited to its big dogs, David Nalbandian and Juan Martin del Potro, faced a ragtag group of Spanish players led by badly slumping...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 12, 2008Nalbandian solely culpable for Davis Cup debacle
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...became a demolition. Those awful crashing and splintering sounds you heard? They were the sounds of David Nalbandian's legacy in Argentine tennis crashing all around him. Make no mistake about it, this Davis...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 24, 2008Del Potro just what the doctor ordered
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...Rafael Nadal (he's sidelined with tendinitis of the right knee), and that the Argentine stalwart, David Nalbandian, has always been dangerous on fast courts. He's an anomaly because Argentina's traditional surface...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 21, 2008Djokovic re-establishes himself as a force
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...more critically, about TMC if, say, Gilles Simon had won it with a run reminiscent of David Nalbandian a few years back, or if Jo-Wilfried Tsonga -- perhaps the freshest player in the field...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 17, 2008Simon inconspicuously making his move
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...at No. 12 in the race for Shanghai, with many of the usual suspects -- James Blake, David Nalbandian, Nikolay Davydenko, to name a few -- more or less dawdling or marking time. Not Simon. Instead...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 20, 2008Twilight Zone headline grabbers
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.comSince "deregulation" seems to be a hot word these days, let's apply it to tennis: We're in the deregulated portion of the tennis year, when it often s...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 06, 2008Querrey, Del Potro stand out in Davis Cup
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...by surface) performer with a rock-solid temperament -- something that the team's star and workhorse, David Nalbandian, doesn't possess. Although Nalbandian carved up Igor Andreev in the first match of the tie...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 22, 2008Don't dispute the pageantry of Davis Cup
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...58) to be a barnburner? • What would it take for Argentina's bon vivant David Nalbandian to play a match so focused that he'd give up just 11 games to clay...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 19, 2008Federer is just fine
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...both of them will be forces to reckon with on the game's biggest stages. 3. David Nalbandian, Nikolay Davydenko, David Ferrer, Richard Gasquet and a few other regulars who are either established in...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 09, 2008Don't let the rankings fool you
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...No. 1 in the world. The race table says it's Rafael Nadal. The rankings put David Nalbandian at No. 7; he isn't even in the top 10 in the race table. According...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 18, 2008How far can the French fly?
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...from that caveat, you have to like this rangy, powerful athlete's chances. Chardy took out David Nalbandian in perhaps the biggest surprise of the tournament thus far, and while Dmitry Tursunov can get...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 30, 2008Dream quarterfinals
Peter Bodo, TENNIS.com...have a twofer when it comes to that proverbial "dream quarterfinal." Federer is going up against David Nalbandian, and Nadal is going to butt head(bands) with David Ferrer. This highlights one of the...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 24, 2008TOP SEARCHES IN NOVEMBER
Bowl Projections tops ESPN.com searches in November. Did "david nalbandian" make the list?