He was one of the best players in the history of South American tennis and one of the most brilliant in recent years, but injuries never left him alone. Juan Martin Del Potrowho was forced to leave professional tennis due to a knee injury that could not be healed after eight operations.
The “Torre de Tandil” won the US Open in 2009 in a magnificent tournament in which he defeated Roger Federer in the final and climbed to third position in the ATP rankings, but the road became more than thorny after a fall fateful who left the aforementioned joint beaten at Queen’s 2019.
“Delpo” spoke on his social networks about the difficult moments he experienced, before his farewell duel with Novak Djokovic in Argentina on December 1. “The day after the match against Delbonis, I took a plane to Switzerland and had another knee operation. It was my fifth operation. From that point on, I never made my operations public again. I couldn’t take the pain in my leg anymore, so “I tried the low profile and if it worked, it signaled my return.” I was locked up for two months in a town near Basel, they operated on me, I did rehabilitation and after two months they told me that there was a little something left and I I had another operation.” confessed the former Argentine tennis player.
Juan Martín Del Potro: I have to receive more than 100 injections in my leg, hip and back
For Juan Martín there was no giving up and he kept trying, always hoping to enjoy his profession again. “Then I left for the United States, I continued my rehabilitation, between surgeries I tried treatments. I don’t know, I must have had over 100 injections in my leg, hip and back. They infiltrated me, they took me out, they analyzed me, they burned my nerves, they tore out my tendons. Daily suffering, that’s how I’ve been living since the last day with Federico.remembers the native of Tandil. “When I had surgery for the first time, in June 2019, the doctor told me that in three months I would be able to play again. I registered for the tournaments in Stockholm, Basel and Paris but I was never able to climb stairs without pain again. During my daily four-hour journey to Tandil, I have to stop at Las Flores, which is halfway, to stop and stretch my legs. It often hurts me to sleep turning on my side. I wake up from very painful punctures. ugly”, » added the Grand Slam title holder.
Even Del Potro’s daily life is noticeably affected; he cannot carry out joint activities and cannot enjoy tennis or other sporting disciplines that he loves so much, such as football. “My daily life is not what I want, I was a very active guy, who loved playing sports, not just playing tennis. And so they invite me to play football and it’s me who wears the mate and sits outside, or at padel it’s me who makes the videos. For me, it’s terrible,” The double Olympic Games of London 2012 and Rio 2016 stood out.
