A @livetennis már kicsivel reálisabb képet fest. Delpo itt a hetedik, de az a szerintem túlértékelt Cilic itt is előzi.
He missed virtually four entire years from this decade and he's STILL our no. 7 ATP player of the 2010s.
He's just that good 🤷♀️ Read more > http://bit.ly/DelpoNo7
ATP top 10 players of the decade: No. 7 – Juan Martin del Potro
http://www.livetennis.com/category/tournaments/atp-top-10-players-of-the-decade-no-7-juan-martin-del-potro-20191212/
2010-19 fast factsHighest ranking: 3 (2018)ATP titles: 15 (Indian Wells Masters 2018)ATP finals: 10 (Indian Wells Masters 2013, Shanghai Masters 2013, Rio Olympics 2016, US Open 2018)Top-10 wins: 38Olympic bronze medal (London 2012), silver medal (Rio 2016), Davis Cup champion (2016)
Would there have been a Big Four, a Big Five in men’s tennis throughout men’s tennis in the 2010s – a more open competitive landscape, one less dominated by the Federer-Nadal-Novak Djokovic triumvirate? What might del Potro have accomplished in 2014-15, when he was in his mid-to-late twenties – traditionally a peak period for players – if he hadn’t been sidelined by that damn left wrist?
Hypotheticals don’t win you a place on this list. And as much as it’s tempting to see del Potro as a tragic figure and define him in terms of unrealized potential, what’s missing in that view is a realistic assessment of how much he has accomplished, with all his injury problems, in this unbelievably tough era of men’s tennis.
Twice this decade, del Potro has pulled off tremendous comebacks and made them look quite routine. After playing just six matches in 2010 and being prevented from defending his US Open title, he dropped as low as world no. 484 in February 2011; just weeks later, he won Delray Beach and made the semifinals of Indian Wells, ending that season inside the top 15.
But that comeback really pales in comparison to what he achieved after his 2014-15 layoff. In February 2016, he was ranked world no. 1,042 after playing only 14 matches over the past two years. Over the next few months, he hauled himself up to world no. 141 – and then came the tournament that played a huge role in getting him on this list: The Rio Olympics.
Playing for Argentina has always been an incredible motivator for the man they call the ‘Tower of Tandil’, who in the semifinals of the London Olympics, on the grass of Wimbledon, dragged Federer all the way to 17-19 in the decider and came back the next day to win the bronze medal match against Djokovic. It was Djokovic who awaited del Potro in the first round in Rio – and again, it was del Potro who prevailed in straight sets, over the world no. 1. Before the tournament was through, he had also ousted Nadal in the semifinals in a grueling, bruising encounter, and fought Andy Murray to a standstill before finally capitulating in the gold medal match.
It was the silver medal nobody expected, and it earned del Potro precisely zero ranking points – but he went on to make the quarterfinals of the US Open, win the title in Stockholm, and play a crucial role for Argentina once again. In the Davis Cup semifinals, he beat Murray in five sets in front of a partisan Glasgow crowd; in the final, he beat Ivo Karlovic and fellow US Open champion Marin Cilic, and Argentina won the first Davis Cup in their history.
In 2017, del Potro reached his fourth Grand Slam semifinal at the US Open, eliminating Federer on the way, and picked up more titles; in 2018, he compiled a 15-match winning streak in the spring as he picked up his first Masters 1000 Series title at Indian Wells, made the semifinals of Roland Garros, and reached his second Grand Slam final at the US Open, rising as high as world no. 3.
Say it with me: This is how good Juan Martin del Potro is when he’s fit. This is how much of a factor he makes himself when he’s able to play. He joins Murray and peak Stan Wawrinka (and now potentially Dominic Thiem) in a very, very small group of players who is absolutely capable of beating any one of the Big Three any time they meet – and the Big Three all know it.
How does he do it? A decent serve for a 6’6” man, and a forehand so big and brutal it drives the breath from your lungs; very good movement for a man of his size, and something else – star quality. (The gentle giant, whose first language is mumbling, who mooches around with his shoulders slumped, is also the shameless showman who can set a crowd on fire and has repeatedly frustrated Roger Federer into fits of on-court temper, after all.)
Juan Martin del Potro might have ended this decade with multiple major titles; instead, he looks very likely to end his career with just that one US Open to his credit, if he even manages to make it back from this latest injury to give his career one final act.
But despite spending, essentially, four of the last ten years on the sidelines, he’s lit up the 2010s like almost nobody else. A US Open final, a career-high ranking of world no. 3, two comebacks from rankings well outside the top 400, Olympic silver, Olympic bronze, multiple wins over all of the Big Three, a Masters 1000 Series title, a Davis Cup and the unofficial title of ‘everybody’s second favourite player’: The man with the forehand made of thunder has made titans tremble for the best part of ten years. And it’s been electrifying.
Eddig az oldal az ötödik játékosig jutott, itt vannak a linkek, remélem működnek!
ATP player of the decade no. 10: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
ATP player of the decade no. 9: Dominic Thiem
ATP player of the decade no. 8: David Ferrer
ATP player of the decade no. 7: Juan Martin del Potro
ATP player of the decade no. 6: Marin Cilic
http://www.livetennis.com/category/livetennis-news/atp-top-10-players-of-the-decade-no-5-stan-wawrinka-20191214/
Ugyan a H2H nem igazán számít, de Delpi pozitív a szerintem kifogásolt játékosok ellen, (Cilic ellen nagyon, 11-2)
Pár stat is legyen itt!
2010-2019 decade stats:
Matches Won %:
Djokovic 86.42%
Nadal 84.54%
Federer 83.53%
Murray 79.02%
del Potro 74.32%
Ferrer 70.00%
Nishikori 69.47%
Raonic 68.40%
Berdych 68.01%
Tsonga 67.48%
* Minimum 180 matches
2010-2019 decade stats:
Best win % in Slams:
Djokovic 89.92%
Nadal 88.89%
Federer 84.50%
Murray 83.62%
Wawrinka 75.84%
del Potro 75.00%
Tsonga 74.05%
Berdych 73.91%
Cilic 73.68%
Ferrer 72.87%
* Minimum 45 matches
2010-2019 decade stats:
Best % on Hard
Djokovic 87.21%
Federer 84.90%
Nadal 80.17%
Murray 78.49%
del Potro 74.74%
Roddick 70.00%
Raonic 69.39%
Nishikori 69.38%
Monfils 68.83%
Medvedev 68.75%
* Minimum 90 matches
2010-2019 decade stats:
Best % in deciding set:
Djokovic 75.16%
Nishikori 74.55%
Murray 69.01%
Nadal 67.41%
Federer 67.10%
del Potro 66.32%
Ferrer 64.57%
Goffin 64.39%
Gasquet 63.38%
Thiem 63.33%
* Minimum 90 matches
