From Potro I remember Maradona
Tennis player Juan Martín Del Potro, who is recovering from his third knee operation, assured today that it is “costing him a lot” to play again but that he does not lower his arms because he has the illusion of participating in the Tokyo Olympics, rescheduled by the pandemic by July 2021.
“I will be honest. The truth is that it is taking me a lot to come back. It is becoming very difficult for me but I am not going to give up. My dream is to be able to be in the Olympic Games. I love tennis and I refuse to finish out of the field. court “, declared the tandilense 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,” he admitted.
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. I changed the way I hit the ball because of my wrist problems but I can’t change the way I run on 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 “.
The tandilense wants to play the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021
“The fact that the Olympic Games have been postponed to the middle of next year due to this damn pandemic makes me not want to lower my arms. The illusion of representing Argentina once again, that’s why I keep fighting it,” insisted Delpo, whose first medal Olympic (bronze) was at the London 2012 Games.
The winner of the US Open 2009, former number 3 in the ATP world ranking and champion with the Argentine Davis Cup team in 2016, remembered Diego Armando Maradona with great love, who was always close to national tennis and especially in that historic final de la Davis 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. He transmitted an energy and a strength that did not it was received from another person, “said Del Potro, 32.
Maradona in Zagreb, when he went to cheer on Argentina against Croatia in the 2016 Davis Cup final
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 would visit him in his room and we would talk for ten minutes. I did it in private so as not to disarm the structure of the team. It made me very happy and gave me a lot of strength, “he confided.
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