Nalbandian is angry for not being part of the Argentine Davis Cup team that will travel to Stockholm, and stated that “Tito” Vazquez chose ‘the best players today’. About his injury in Buenos Aires David said: ‘Sometimes the fighting spirit betrays you’.

Argentinan sportmen Lionel Messi and Juan Martin del Potro have been nominated for the prestigious Laures Award that will be unveile during a televised Awards Ceremony staged in Abu Dhabi on March 10, 2010.

Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro told with tears in his eyes the tremendous pain he was suffering after been eliminated from the Australia Open by Croatian Marin Cilic.

The third round will be closed today and as we found out earlier Juan Martin Del Potro is already in the Round of 16. We tell you who else qualified for that instance with today’s results for Ladies and Gentlemen. Nadal and Murray are also through. Among the highlights in the Ladies, Clijsters lost and Henin won.
Tonight ‘Pico’ Monaco will face Nikolay Davydenko.

World number four Juan Martin Del Potro continued his run for the Australian Open with a four-set victory over Germany’s Florian Mayer.

Argentineans had two good news last night, because of wins by both Juan Monaco and Gisela Dulko, to get into the third round. ‘Pico’ recovered after being two sets down against Frenchman Michael Llodra, and the Tigre player defeated Serbian Ana Ivanovic, seeded number 20, playing a great match.

The fourth-seeded Argentine came back from two sets to one down to beat veteran American James Blake 6-4, 6-7 (3-7), 5-7, 6-3, 10-8 in an gruelling second-round match over four hours and 17 minutes.

Gisela Dulko and Juan Monaco were the only Argentines to get through today. ‘Pico’ and Del Potro are the only ones left alive after the first round. Roger Federer lost the first set against Igor Andreev but won the match without further complications.

To go to bed too late or wake up too early; that’s the dilemma to see the action on the other side of the globe. The first Grand Slam of the year started last night and sadly only a few games could be completed because of the rain that forced the organization to re-program the schedule tightening the fixture.

Juan Martin del Potro beat American Michael Russell 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 in the first round of the Australian Open, the first major tournament of the year.

U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro will play at the Australian Open despite pulling out of the Kooyong Classic with a wrist injury, the grand slam’s tournament director Craig Tiley said on Friday. His words will sure make Argentine tennis fans happy.

U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro will play at the Australian Open despite pulling out of the Kooyong Classic with a wrist injury, the grand slam’s tournament director Craig Tiley said on Friday.

The Argentine did not even enter the court to play the semi final of the exhibition tournament at Kooyong that paired him against French Jo-Wilfred Tsonga. Members from the tournament organization confirmed that ‘Delpo’s walkover was due to a wrist injury, but did not give away any further information about it’s seriousness.

The seventh seeded Argentine had no trouble beating fellow countryman Horacio Zeballos by 6-0, 6-3 and advances to the second round of the tournament.

In the ATP 250 Tournament at Doha, the Russian got past Roger with a categoricall double 6-4 confirming his good form after ending last year winning the Masters, victory over Federer in semis included. He will face Rafa Nadal in the final. The Spaniard defeated Serb Victor Troicki easily 6-1 6-3.

The Olimpia is a prize handed by the Sports Press Association in Argentina. This year Juan Martin Del Potro earned the gold over Lionel Messi, Juan Sebastian Veron, Luciana Aymar and Angel ‘Pato’ Cabrera. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

A small group of misfits identified as ‘barrabravas’ (hooligans) showed up where national sports icon Juan Martin Del Potro was, to persuasivley ‘ask’ him for ’something’. A racket, a shirt, or whatever.

While rumours abound as to the romance between the diva and Juan Martin del Potro, her former boyfriend, businessman Jorge Rama, starred in a scandal in Uruguay and was arrested by the police. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

The “Tandil Tower” held a press conference after the London Masters final, where he was defeated by Russian Nikolay Davydenko who praised / joked about saying he “looks like a Playstation player. At the same time he expressed the fatigue of yesterday’s game was a big problem today.

Juan Martín Del Potro was defeated by Nikolay Davydenko 6-3 , 6-4 in one hour and 24 minutes of game. The Argentinean fails to conquer the title and climbing to the fourth position of the world ranking.