Argentine tennis player Juan Martin del Potro reappeared on a tennis court 965 days later and did so in the Buenos Aires tournament, scoring for the ATP and which is played on clay, where, after losing to his compatriot Federico Delbonis 6-1, 6-3, he reiterated his desire to end his sports career.
“I believe that I made too much effort in two and a half years to come back and be able to playLike I did so many other times. Sometimes I can lose too and I don’t have the strength to move on. This time I feel that a bit,” Del Potro said in statements collected by the ATP website.
The man from Tandil assured that this was a day he was going to “remember all his life”. “I still haven’t found a place where I’m happier than inside a tennis court and now I want to be happy. I gave everything I had until the last point, I feel like I have my whole life ahead of me and I can go in peace“, sentenced ‘Delpo’.
The truth is that the Argentine giant managed to be champion of the US Open in 2009 and one of the few tennis players who managed to interfere in the dominance of the Big Three (Federer, Nadal and Djokovic) on the circuit in the last decade.
of the foal he had not played a match since June 2019 and already last weekend he made it clear that his wish was to be able to say goodbye playing, but that the withdrawal was practically decided and that his intention was to do so after playing in front of his fans and in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
