Monday, 16 July 2007

Tennis players with weird and wonderful names

Whenever I look through a draw for one of the major four tournaments, usually with the aim of picking a winning team for the fantasy competiton I take part in, or glance at the results on livescore I quite often come across a name that stands out for one reason or another. I've never noticed this quite so much in other sports - probably because I pay less interest - but I thought I'd start another little series here, this time commemorating possibly lesser-known players with wonderfully strange (to my English ear) names.

To start off with I've selected the French player Nicolas Devilder, who's just beaten Agustin Calleri in the Dutch Open at Amersfoort. I don't think I need to explain why.

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