The tennis player Juan Martin del Potro fulfilled a promise this Monday with a visit to a home for the elderly in Tandil, his hometown, and made it known through a video on his official Instagram account.
“How nice to be able to visit my friends from the Los Nogales residence in Tandil. You never stop learning from them Thank you for an unforgettable morning! ”Del Potro wrote on his social networks.
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Del Potro accommodated the request of his grandparents, who were eager to meet him. He responded immediately and, after resolving personal commitments, visited them.
His last name was trending on Twitter for the morning match and included hugs, questions and answers from the 2009 US Open champion tennis player.
Del Potro, 33, continues to be away from the professional circuit, as he gets physically fit after a chronic right knee injury. His last game occurred on June 19, 2019. Delpo’s idea aims to return next year with the intention of retiring on a court.
Del Potro: more than two years after his last game
The June 19, 2019Juan Martín Del Potro, one of the best Argentine tennis players in history, began his preparation on grass with his sights set on Wimbledon, with a victory in the initial round of Queen’s over Canadian Denis Shapovalov by a tight 7-5 and 6 -4, that was the last thing he did on the circuit, since his right kneecap injury worsened and he could not compete again.
Del Potro underwent surgery in Barcelona with the Spanish doctor Ángel Ruíz Cotorro and tried to return twice, the first in October 2019 for the Stockholm ATP, but the pain persisted and he could not do so, he was not due to that injury a month later, in November to play in the Roca Park of Villa Soldati an exhibition with the Swiss crack Roger Federer, and had to be replaced by the German Alexander Zverev.
Discouraged and hurt once again, Del Potro underwent surgery again in February of last year and the same kneecap was operated on at the Institute of Sports Medicine at the University of Miami, intervened by the doctor Lee Kaplan, Thus he came to six surgeries, added the three on the left wrist and another on the right from previous years, which again and again conspired against his career, which is equally brilliant.
The 2009 US Open champion returned to the country from Miami in March and the days of the pandemic began, where, through closure, he was inactive during the first two months on social networks, just a juicy round trip on Instagram with another colossus. from the Argentine sport, the Bahian Emanuel Ginobili, and then when it was learned of the end of the relationship with the model Sofía “Jujuy” Jiménez.
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Juan Martín del Potro wants to make one last attempt to play tennis again, the sport that gave him so much joy. The Argentine underwent surgery once more in March of this year on his right knee in Chicago and seeks to reconnect with the racket. In his Twitter account he was very sincere and said that this intervention “is the definitive one”: depending on the recovery, it will remain active or retire.
He planned to make it to the Tokyo Olympics, but couldn’t. Months later he reappeared at the US Open, where he was a commentator and was even able to rally with John McEnroe.
The tandilense conquered during his brilliant career 22 titles, the most important the US Open in 2009, also won two Olympic medals (bronze in London 2012 and silver in Rio 2016), and was a decisive factor in the only Davis Cup that Argentina won in history, in the 2016 final against to Croatia, in Zagreb.
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