Első Gs döntőjét megnyerte 20 évesen. 0-1 majd 1-2 es szettek állásáról, a legyőzhetetlennek hitt 41-0-ás US open győztes mutatóval rendelkező 15* GS bajnok Federert, aki legeredményesebb férfi teniszezője a világnak. Új csillag született, nem kérdés!
2009 US open döntő eredménye:
Del Potro-Federer 36 76 (4) 46 76 (3) 62
"I'm clearly getting old, but I still feel I have enough strength to play tennis well. I certainly don't expect to come back in top 10 after all these problems. It won't be easy to repeat what happened in 2018.
But who knows, at the moment when I should feel fit." Juan Martin del Potro has not lost confidence and looks to the future with his typical mental strength. An injury to the patella at Queen's – the second after his injury at the Shanghai Masters in 2018 – put many doubts about the future of Delpo in the world of tennis.
From Shanghai up to Queen's, del Potro played only five tournaments In addition to recovering from a double serious injury, the Argentinian will also have to recover a lot from the mental point of view, as that was only the latest in a long series of serious injuries.
Not only that: he will have to regain confidence in the rhythm of the matches, in training and in facing old and new opponents. Del Potro will have to have so many motivations to come back again on the court, but there is something positive.
He always came back positively from his old serious injuries. Winning important titles and improving. Finally, there is the age factor. At 31 years-old, del Potro is still not old for a tennis player, despite his physical problems.
And he will have an example to follow: Andy Murray. The Scot's tenacity led him from a near-retirement from tennis to winning a new ATP title, and who knows what will happen in 2020 if Murray regains further physical shape and confidence!
Here. Del Potro can start again from here: the stories are different between him and Murray, but a tennis player like Argentinian, one of the most beloved by the crowds, is very important for the ATP Tour, for the thousand emotions he is able to give to fans, crowd, media and insiders.
wimbledonPoints of the Decade: Del Potro takes flight 🎬 The fifth set between @delpotrojuan and Rafael Nadal was perhaps the most entertaining seen at #wimbledon during the 2010s, with this thrilling rally one of the many highlights... . 🗓️ 2018 Quarter-final
usopenBest US Open matches of the 2010s. Juan Martín del Potro battles back from two sets down in the R16 to upset No. 6 seed Dominic Thiem in a crazy 5-set match full of highlights 🍿
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!
The Best of the Rest: The Top 10 Men's Players of the Decade
It was the era of the Big 3, which saw Djokovic become the first ATP player to win all nine Masters 1000s, Nadal complete a career Golden Slam and Federer become the first man to reach the 20-Slam singles mark.
While statistics played a large part in assembling this list—only those amassed from January 2010 through the 2019 US Open were considered—the final order was ultimately subjective, based on the player’s impact throughout the decade.
Arguably the unluckiest player of the past 10 years—with a host of injuries, including three left wrist surgeries—del Potro is an incredible story of resilience. The Tower of Tandil guided Argentina to its maiden Davis Cup in 2016, won two Olympic medals and 15 ATP titles, including Indian Wells. His pure love of the game enabled a US Open final return in 2018, nine years after his major breakthrough
Igaz, hogy Delpo még 2010 előtt nyerte az USO-t, de azt is számításba vehették volna, hogy közel négy évet nem játszott, ami a visszakapaszkodások miatt még nehezebb volt...
Szia! Hivatalosan, se megerősítve, se cáfolva nincs az, hogy játszik A fél év Delpinél már nem is számít hosszú időnek, de visszaút csak akkor van, ha nem lesz fájdalom a térdében. Én is az vagyok (pesszimista), de ezen nem is lehet csodálkozni az eddig történtek után.
Időben belefér a "több hetes pályás edzés", az AO január 20-án kezdődik. Ettől még simán benne van, hogy nem játszik.
"Az a térd" jól megkínozza, de hogy is lehetne másképp! Ez a Dr. Cotorro, Nadal térdét (műtét nélkül), két hét alatt rakja rendbe, Delpo esetében hónapok telnek el...:/
Sajnos kezdem elveszíteni a visszatérésbe vetett bizalmam. Ez már nagyon-nagyon hosszú idő játék nélkül. Hogy van innen visszaút? Nehezen tudom elképzelni, bár nem ez lenne az első újrakezdés/visszatérés. Szóval kicsit pesszimista lettem (remélem csak én vagyok az). Ez kikívánkozott belőlem, de ha már leírtam, nem törlöm. Felejtsétek el.
Már ez is valami, hogy a teremben folyamatosan látjuk...Viszont az eddigi sémából kiindulva, innen még több hetes pályás edzés következik, szóval én nem számítok ausztráliai játékra. Nem is számít, csak jöjjön rendbe végre az a térd:/
Delpo is well and continues with the recovery process. I would aim to play one of the first tournaments of the year (it could be Doha between January 6 and 11), then arrive well profiled at the Australia Open, the first big event of the year.
Dohán igencsak meglepődtem, hogy honnan szedték. Sosem játszott ott.
The ATP 250 of Delray Beach announced Delpo's debut date in the tournament: Delpo, who has not yet returned to the courts, would play his first game on February 18 at 10 p.m. 🇦🇷
If there’s any player in tennis that knows what it takes to make a comeback, it’s Juan Martin del Potro. Ranked No. 123, the former No. 3 is one of a few former Top 10 players looking to 2020 as a comeback opportunity:
Here’s a look at several players who will be trying to return the familiar confines of the Top 10—or at least much higher than their current standings—in 2020.
If there’s any player in tennis that knows what it takes to make a comeback, it’s the Argentine. In 2018, del Potro was in the midst of one of the best seasons of his injury-plagued career before being sidelined by a knee issue toward the end of the year. He played some in 2019 before the knee gave him more problems, eventually sidelining him for the rest of the year. Del Potro has climbed back from the rankings hinterlands before on multiple occasions, and has the mind-set required to face such challenges. When he returns to the tour, he’ll be one of the most dangerous floaters in any draw—until he regains his place among the elite again.
delpotrojuanLife is like the Ocean. 🌊 Waves will try to knock you down and push you back to where you started but once you fight them, the entire ocean is YOURS. 🙏 #inspiration
In an interview, former Argentina's Davis Cup team captain Daniel Orsanic recalled Juan Martin del Potro's impact when they won the title back in 2016. Orsanic, referring to the Tandil native, said: "Unfortunately there were just a few seasons where he ended up being healthy.
He is a great guy and being injury-free he would have been the number one in the world. When he won the Davis Cup he felt big happiness." On what meant to him to win the Davis Cup, Orsanic added: "Winning it was a big achievement.
We had a great team who trusted me. That was always my dream. Winning the Cup is the result of all this." Why did Argentina win that Davis Cup? "We won it because we had the best team ever. I am convinced that at a team level we made up the best Argentina.
That's not a guarantee to win but everyone supported it. The player who was on the court knew that the rest of the team was behind him, which plays a big role in key moments." What was the key to his job? "I trusted what I thought.
I was convinced of what we could get without caring about the sports result or the people outside. I wanted the players and team to be comfortable.
