Junior Player Spotlight: Gabriela Finchelstein, Gotham Tennis Academy at Stadium Tennis Center

For as long as she can remember, tennis has been a part of Gabriela Finchelstein’s life. The NYC-born teenager, who goes by Gaby, began playing with oversized balloons substituting as tennis balls when she was four-years-old, an early introduction to the sport that would become the focal part of her upbringing.

But her tennis origins date back even farther than that. Finchelstein’s parents were huge tennis fans living in Argentina, and they shared a favorite player, Gabriela Sabatini, the Argentine tennis legend who won the 1990 U.S. Open, and compiled a decorated professional career. When they moved to the United States, the couple had a daughter and named her, appropriately, Gabriela…

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