“My priority is quality of life, because I can’t take the pain anymore, but I’m not going to close this (tennis), I want to leave it open. Later, time and life will tell how it ends, but today I’m looking for treatments to improve my quality of life, not to play Paris-Bercy or the Australian Open. That’s a big difference in my day to day”commented the man from Tandil, who will turn 34 on Friday.
Del Potro, former number three in the ATP world ranking in 2018, gave an exclusive interview to the newspaper La Nación a few days ago in New York, while the tournament was being played. US Opencoincidentally the most important of the 22 tournaments he won during his career.
The man from Tandil, champion of the US Open in 2009 and with Argentina in the Davis Cup in 2016, being a genius and figure of the team in the semifinals and the final (in the quarterfinals he only played doubles), competed for the last time on February 8 in the Argentina Open and since then he has not played professionally again.
That match he played and lost to Federico Delbonis from Azul 6-1 and 6-3, was highly emotional for the public that filled the facilities of the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club and also for him, of course, who at the end hung up the headband he had lucido of the net of the central court.
“That moment came naturally and from the soul. I didn’t think about it. I was genuine with what I felt in that second. I think that moment was the end point of a lot of suffering and a message that I had been giving for three years and that I couldn’t take it anymore, because it was doing me a lot of harm”revealed “Delpo”.
“I would go out and before asking me how I was doing, they would ask me when I was playing, that question that they asked me for three and a half years, and also more, with the (operations on) wrists, it was something that I took more naturally. , but at the end I suffered a lot, “added the” Torre de Tandil “.
Del Potro also commented that he cannot carry out a training routine because the patella of his right knee that has been operated on so many times prevents him from doing so, and that it also bothers him in everyday life.
“I only walk, I don’t run on the treadmill, I can’t climb stairs without pain. It’s my reality, it’s hard, it’s sad, but I try not to stay with it and my new challenge is how to try to process everything, assimilate what touches me and how I get up every day to live the best possible”confessed the man from Tandil.
The 2009 US Open champion also covered a current topic such as the announcement of the Swiss Roger Federer that he will leave tennis at the age of 41 after playing the Laver Cup in London between Friday and Sunday.
“I was saddened by his news. I didn’t expect it for this moment, I had the hope that he would play at Wimbledon next year, that’s why it was a surprise. I have many stories with him, I was the first to give him the Boca shirt I think it was in 2009, at Roland Garros. I remember I took him the shirt and he was crazy,” Delpo concluded.
Source: Ambito
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