Tennis player Juan Martín Del Potro, who is recovering from his third knee operation, assured this Friday that It is “taking a lot” for him to play again but he does not lower his arms because he has the illusion of participating in the Tokyo Olympics, rescheduled by the pandemic for July 2021.
“I’ll be honest. The truth is that I am having a hard time coming back. It is getting very difficult for me but I am not going to give up. My dream is to be able to be in the Olympics. I love tennis and I refuse to finish off the court, “the Tandilense declared in a talk with ESPN.
“It is a reality that I would like to cover up but it is what happens to me. I still stand by the desire to play that I have”admitted the former world number three. Del Potro, a silver medalist at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, when he returned to the courts after several wrist surgeries, expressed that “living that was something unique.”
But in that sense, he made it clear that the situation now is different. “I changed the way I hit the ball because of my wrist problems, but I can’t change the way I run through my knee, it’s what is costing me the most. But I’m going to keep trying to be in Tokyo. That’s why I keep insisting, “remarked the 2009 US Open champion.
“The fact that the Olympic Games have been postponed for the middle of next year because of this damn pandemic makes me not want to lower my arms. The illusion of representing Argentina once more, that’s why I keep fighting it, “insisted Delpo, whose first Olympic medal (bronze) was at the London 2012 Games.
Former world ranking number 3 and champion with the Argentinian Davis Cup team in 2016 He remembered Diego Armando Maradona with much love, who was always close to national tennis and especially in that historic Davis Cup final in Zagreb, Croatia, where Argentina got its first and only ‘Silver Salad Bowl’.
“Four years ago in the Davis Cup final we lived it very closely with Maradona. I remember that he called me to come. We had to be calm and with Diego it was sometimes difficult. It transmitted an energy and a force that was not received from another person “, Del Potro, 32, said.
In any case, he considered the presence of the Ten important at that time to conquer Davis. “He behaved with great respect, knowing his place and it was very important for us to win the cup. Every night, on my own without anyone knowing, I was going to visit him in his room and we would talk for ten minutes. He did that in private so as not to disarm the team structure. It made me very happy and gave me a lot of strength “, confided the tennis player.
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