Buenos Aires: Perhaps it was meant as a backhanded compliment. Vandals have made off with the racket that was clasped in the hands of a newly unveiled statue of Argentine tennis star Gabriela Sabatini (44) in Buenos Aires.


The racquet-less statue of Gabriela Sabatini. Pic/AFP 

The miscreants left the artwork looking rather empty-handed just a few weeks after it was made public.