David Nalbandian was born and lives in Cordoba, Argentina

He began playing tennis at age five. As a prodigious 16 year old, won the US Open Boys Singles, already demonstrating a versatile game for all speeds and surfaces. First tentative steps on the senior Futures tour. Junior success continued with a runners-up spot at Roland Garros (to Coria) and semi-final spot at Wimbledon, when he was defaulted for not turning up to his match due to a scheduling misunderstanding. Won Boys Doubles (w/ Coria). Won first Futures title in Italy.

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.