Submitted by Dr C Kanaris, Oct 24, 2007 09:05

Agreed, the Nalbandian implosion is rather common in players with worldwide accolade and the expectations of the tennis world resting on their shoulders. Players tend to pay for their mistakes in their proffessional lives off the courts however. Look at Baghdatis for example. In terms of raw talent and on-court imagination theres very few that could match him . In terms of the will to make sacrifices in life in order to take his game a notch up there seems to be a relative shortcoming. Training in Cyprus with a coach inexperienced at the highest level has taken is toll, and Marcos is slowly tumbling down the ranks with the certainty that Nalbandian was for the past 2 years. Biting the bullet and having a careful choice in guidance (like Andy Murray eventually decided to do) invariably pays off. I'm afraid the greek-cypriot connections of Yiannos-Marcos needs to be broken before Markos is a 32 year old tennis washout playing exhibition Matches against Nastaze and wondering what might have been

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