Emotionally beaten and in search of solutions that do not appear two years after the fracture in the right patella, Juan Martin del Potro go through these hours for another difficult situation, personally. His father, Daniel, underwent a heart operation in Tandil and later transferred for more attention to a sanatorium in the Belgrano neighborhood, in the City of Buenos Aires.
The flame of the resilient spirit keeps Del Potro with the illusions of returning to play on the circuit while the affected area continues to cause discomfort to play, but also for simple actions of his daily life such as going up and down stairs. And in this context, shortly after his return from Porto Alegre, where he underwent a stem cell treatment, this situation arises.
The father began to feel unwell in the past week. He was very agitated, heated. They admitted him to the sanatorium in that Buenos Aires city. First, it was ruled out that he had Covid-19 and then, it was confirmed that it was a cardiological issue. It was thought about transferring him for the operation, but finally they did not take the risk and they placed six stents in the same clinic to which he had been taken.
Juan Martín, who was in the City of Buenos Aires, traveled to accompany him, and returned to his side when it was decided to change to a private institute in the Capital, in the Belgrano neighborhood, where in the last hours they performed a catheterization , which turned out very well.
For the moment, Del Potro Sr. is stable, although there is a logical concern in the tennis player and his family. Patricia Lucas, Delpo’s mother, is also with her husband, while Julieta, Juan Martín’s sister, stayed in her hometown.
Veterinarian, 63, Daniel always kept a very low profile. In Tandil, those who are not from the world of tennis practically do not know his face. He accompanied Juan Martín a lot during his training stage, and he supported and accompanied Negro Gómez, but once his son started traveling he already stayed in the country.
Very involved in the commercial and contractual part of his son, acts as a proxy. He also manages the family business in Tandil linked to fields and cattle. He was in the negotiations for the prize, the venue and the surface of the final of the Davis Cup in Mar del Plata 2008, with differences with David Nalbandian.
Anecdotes, of the real ones and those fueled by the myth, abound around those days. One true one, among many: with the anger between Nalbandian and Del Potro at a point of no return, a group meeting at the Costa Galana triggered a direct clash between the two figures. “And you, asshole? Aren’t you going to speak? Or is your daddy going to keep talking for you?” The man from Cordoba snapped at the Tandilense, who remained silent. He was too young, without the patterned personality, to come face to face with a historical reference like David.
“Juan’s father never wanted his son to charge differently; he confronted him (Nalbandian) and told him that he wanted the award to be the same for everyone,” recalled Franco Davin, then Del Potro’s coach.
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