(Video) “Like an endless nightmare,” Juan Martin del Potro shares harrowing details about his daily struggles as he’s yet to recover from knee injury
Juan Martin del Potro talked in length about his daily struggles ahead of his match against Novak Djokovic in an exhibition event.
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Juan Martin del Potro is still struggling with injury problems. Even after retirement, he is suffering daily, from pain, from his inability to play tennis or any other sports, as he revealed in detail about everything he has gone through since the final match of his career at the Buenos Aires in February 2022.
Del Potro lost to compatriot Federico Delbonis in his final match. It remains a bad memory for him as he didn’t want to say goodbye to tennis in that manner. After that match, although he stopped hearing questions from the journalist about his comeback, it didn’t lessen his struggles, for his body had not yet recovered.
Doctors have even advised Del Potro to get a prosthesis. He tried his all, that is, underwent multiple surgeries to get back on the court but the knee injury defeated him.
Del Potro had his first surgery in June 2019 after injuring his knee for the first time in 2018. He underwent another during the 2019 Queen’s Club Championships.
After that first surgery until today, I’ve never been able to go up a set of stairs without pain. It hurts many times when I try to sleep, when I turn on my side, or when I wake up because I get these sharp pains that are very ugly. It’s like an endless nightmare that I’m daily trying to find solutions and alternatives for, but I can’t find them.
Juan Martin del Potro said on Instagram
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When he had his fifth surgery, the doctors advised him for another and he went to the USA to recover. He recalled having over 100 injections and other treatments including nerve burns and tendon blocks.
Juan Martin del Potro will be playing an exhibition match against Novak Djokovic
Juan Martin del Potro wants to forget his last match and, to do so, he will be playing an exhibition event on December 1 in Buenos Aires. In the exhibition match, ‘The Final Challenge’, he will be locking horns with Novak Djokovic. In that aforementioned video, the Argentine explained how he started to prepare himself for the upcoming match.
I’ve started with the diet again, losing weight, I’ve started training because I want to be in the best shape possible for this match with Novak. It’s an event to say goodbye; there’s no turning back. Djokovic gives it the final touch, being very generous to accept and come.
Juan Martin del Potro said
The Serb has faced del Potro 20 times and leads 16-4 in their head-to-head encounter. They last faced in the 2019 Italian Open which Nole won in three sets.
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