“After tennis, I am left with nothing” Juan Martin Del Potro dejected with life post-retirement amid his consistent injuries scare


“After tennis, I am left with nothing” Juan Martin Del Potro dejected with life post-retirement amid his consistent injuries scare

Juan Martin Del Potro

Juan Martin Del Potro had been stricken with injuries for a long time that kept him out of action despite being one of the players to have defeated the Big 3 a couple of times.

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Del Potro revealed his injuries and not being able to be consistent on the Tour and however still not being able to in the fittest form. He added “For three and a half years, despite several surgeries and treatments, it always happened. Today I can only walk, I can’t run on the treadmill, and I can’t climb the stairs without pain. I can’t drive for a long time without stopping to stretch my legs. This is my reality, which is hard, it is sad, but I always try to improve my situation and my new challenge is also to live in the best possible way, even psychologically, despite my problem.

He further opened up about not being to come to terms with his life “I can’t psychologically accept a life without tennis. I was No. 3 in the world until suddenly, I broke my knees, and here I am, with nothing. I did not have a gradual transition to the after, I did not prepare, and I have no idea what the other athletes did to live this process peacefully. All this time I was trying to recover, as I have with any other injury until in Buenos Aires I said that’s enough.

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“So far, I did not even have a positive result”: Juan Martin Del Potro

Juan Martin Del Potro

Juan Martin Del Potro opened up about the level of frustration that he had to went through after various attempts of getting a positive outcome. He said that ” I recently went to Switzerland to see another doctor. I started another treatment, it was recommended by many tennis players and so far I have not even had a positive result. Imagine what it’s like after every treatment attempt or surgery, the frustration I can feel when things don’t work out.

He further stated that “As usual, I delude myself, I hope, I have faith in every new treatment I try and, when this fails, the blow is hard. And from Buenos Aires I found myself, and I am still there, in that process of reflection, I wonder what things I might like, I don’t know. When I talk to other athletes who are no longer active, they say to me, ‘Well, it took me the last two years of my career, the last year, I prepared myself this way or that way. I’m doing it now.

Del Potro had won his only Grand Slam title in the US Open in 2009 defeating Rafael Nadal in the semi-finals and the five-time defending champion Roger Federer in the finals.

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