Sentence examples for a fragile player from inspiring English sources

Alou, 41, missed two and a half months last season with a strained left quadriceps and has a history of calf, ankle, hamstring and back injuries that has given him a reputation as being a fragile player.

The eldest of eight children, Richard emerged from a poverty stricken family during the Great Depression but was initially viewed as a fragile player.

In her early years on the tour, Schiavone was known as a talented but mentally fragile player whose results were spotty at best.

He played some lovely tennis in 2013 – most memorably in the second round of the French Open when he and Ernests Gulbis, another gloriously talented but fragile player, turned in an exhibition of circus tennis that held their audience spellbound for more than three hours.

Federer had not faced a break point all evening but, when the moment arrived to close out the match, the 17-time major winner looked more like the fragile player that had slipped down the rankings last year.

"This game is a very mental game and it's almost who are the least fragile players that week that have a chance.

The mishap underscored how fragile players' bodies can be.

Pitchers, even the superb ones, are the most fragile players on the field.

Presumably they believe a change of air — or their doctors perhaps — will make good these investments in exotic, eye-catching, but fragile players.

But Torre realized that the length of his address to his suddenly fragile players was not as important as what he actually uttered.

This is especially true of football, with its large rosters, complex on-field schemes, non-guaranteed contracts, and fragile players — perhaps more than with any other sport, the fans are rooting for logos and colors.