The Argentinian Juan Martin del Potro, The 33-year-old former World No. 3 says he still wants to “get back on tour”, seven months after his last fight marked his return after a three-year absence due to a serious knee injury.
“If I improve, I want to try to get back on the circuit,” del Potro told the sports channel on Thursday. ESPN in the United States, where he attended the US Open as a guest.
“This is my place, I feel like this is my place. When I made the decision to come here, a thousand things went through my mind. I feel, I’m still a tennis player. It’s like I’m not a former player, I. Don’ t feel like doing things like former players. I came here imagining having a good time but when I see the others playing I say to myself: ‘My place is there,'” on the court, he said.
Del Potro, winner of 22 ATP titles, said the organizers of the US Open, which he won in 2009, have offered him to say goodbye next year in Flushing Meadows.
“We may never meet again”, however, he released with tears in his eyes, on February 5, after his defeat in Buenos Airesindicating that his definitive retirement from tennis is imminent.
“I live every day, with a lot of emotional ups and downs,” he admits. “I don’t know if this is the last game of my career, but it’s clear that now I’m looking for well-being and quality of life every day”.
The 1.98 m colossus, nicknamed ‘The tower of Tandil’, his hometown, also has Davis cup in 2016 with Argentina, in addition to two Olympic medals, silver in Rio in 2016 and bronze in London four years ago.
He broke the patella of his right knee during the Shanghai Masters 1000 in 2018 and underwent four operations, the last in 2021.
Source: La Verdad
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