Armine373 Posted March 11, 2003 Report Share Posted March 11, 2003 I met David Nalbandian (tennis player) at the Scottsdale Princess. He was extrememly nice, and very sincere. My mom spoke with him in Armenian and he answered politely laughing 'I dont speak Armenian." It was very nice. We told him we were Armenian before the game and he looked at me twice during the game and cuz I was waving. LOL, and he smiled. After the game he took pics with us, and only us which was cool, and sign some autographs for other people. I must say he is very good looking in person, very muscular. Anyway, I might post my pics, but I just felt like posting my encounter because I am so thrilled! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THOTH Posted March 12, 2003 Report Share Posted March 12, 2003 Cool, you should have given him the URL to our forum! LOL. ...and given him your number as well I supose - eh? LOL again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 Today Nalbandian and Agassi advanced to semifinals of the US Open. If they both win that round then will face each other in finals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamavor Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 (edited) Glad someone is paying attention. I will play with the winner! Edited February 24, 2004 by gamavor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamavor Posted September 6, 2003 Report Share Posted September 6, 2003 7-6 Nalbandian v. Roddick  Dzo du Hye Yes!!! Tak derjat!!!  Agassi is out, which is not that bad otherwise they should have renamed the tournament "Armenia Open". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamavor Posted September 6, 2003 Report Share Posted September 6, 2003 6-3 Nalbandian v. Roddick, 2d set Yerpvor patzvin turner huiso, yev mer yergre..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted September 6, 2003 Report Share Posted September 6, 2003 Brad Gilbert will be beating himself up if Roddick loses as well. It's a nice game. I'm watching it as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamavor Posted September 6, 2003 Report Share Posted September 6, 2003 I'm cursing now. The judge paid tribute to the hosts in the third set. S....! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpa Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 I'm cursing now. The judge paid tribute to the hosts in the third set. S....! Hey Gam!Why the long face and curses?Have you not heard of the cilche WIN/WIN?What will it take you to ?Isn't two Armenians out of 6 billion enough?Agassi? Has he ever professed his Armeninan heritage?I don't remember. Someone may know when he did say so.Nalbandian? At least he has not removed the -ian.Back to WIN/WIN!Whatever the outcome, as long as as either of them does not hail from Erevan, we are the winners as ArAm-s, (Armenian-Americans) as both of them are. In case we may have forgotten Argentina is part of America too. And now to the difficult task of having one or both of them mention their Armenian heritage in whatever context.My otar TV companion kept referring to David as the "Armenian" all through the match and she was equally devastated when the "Armenian" (her words) lost. Did he???? What did he lose?? :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
America-Hye Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 Did Agassi's Armenian father drop the "ian" or was "Agassi" their real name. I can not believe how ignorant some Armenians are that there are Armenian names like Bagratuni and Rushtuni which pre-date the "ian" suffix. Â By the way, Andre Agassi's mother is NOT Armenian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THOTH Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 regardless... I had such high hopes for an all Armenian final - what a PR boon that could have been (and great for the guys too! - and I am a big/long time Agassi fan...) - I don't even think the networks could have ignored it... Way too bad it didn't work out (and besides Ferrara really sucked in the final...shame...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamavor Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 Arpa, I don't know about Agassi (I think his original name was Agassian), and yes I watched the documentary American-Armenians where he professed his Armenianness. That of course doesn't mean anything. We had a tread somewhere in the forum wheater stuborn Armenianness doesn’t hold us back. As to David Nalbandian, I have first hand information that he is a very proud Armenian!  Besides what is Russian about Kurnikova? She has spent all her life outside Russia, she became a celebrity outside Russia, but Russians are very proud of her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
America-Hye Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 Kurnikova is an elixir in ANY language, and I usually don't go for blonds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
America-Hye Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 Or is it "Kournikova?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harut Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 here it comes...i have a friend, who has a tennisist friend, who is a good friend with Sargis Sargisyan, who in turn is a good friend with David Nalbandian.and the word is that Nalbandian is a great person and a great Armenian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamavor Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 Yes, Hagarag. Sorry, it is not KURnikova. It is KoURnikova! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 here it comes...i have a friend, who has a tennisist friend, who is a good friend with Sargis Sargisyan, who in turn is a good friend with David Nalbandian.Hey, that pretty much completes the "5-degrees of David Nalbandian" on this forum since we all know Harut ... who has a friend who has a tennisist friend who is good friends with Sargis Sargisyan who is good friend with Nalbandian. Yay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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