Argentine tennis player Federico Delbonis, the hero of the 2016 Davis Cup conquest, received this Wednesday a major tribute to his professional career at the center of the IEB+ Argentina Open, which will be held in Buenos Aires.
With hundreds of cheers from those present, the 33-year-old player collected an award replicating the ‘matero’ trophy – in reference to the container in which the typical drink from Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay is drunk – awarded to the champion. of 250 Tournaments. of the Association of Professional Tennis Players (ATP).
Accompanied by his wife and children and visibly moving, the one from Azul (province of Buenos Aires) thanked the public of Buenos Aires and sent a kiss to all those who accompanied him on his journey on the slopes.
The tennis player made a definitive farewell to the courts on Tuesday, when he was eliminated in the first round of the doubles tournament with his countryman Facundo Bagnis, against the Spaniards Jaume Munar and Roberto Carballés, who were merciless to the locals and won of a clear 6 -4 and 6-2.
After the last point, he knew the moment he was alive, he hugged his partner tightly and then began to feel the warmth of the spectators who had gathered in the afternoon of Buenos Aires: applause and shouts singing ‘Fede, Fede’ , as some fans exclaimed. reminding him of his victory at Davis.
In the press conference after the match, ‘Delbo’ said that “it was a healthy decision” and “the right one”, as his “daily and unbearable pain” prevented him from training at the highest level level.
“Being here you want to keep playing, but the truth is I don’t have the physical tools to keep doing it for a calendar year,” he admitted.
Recently, in a tribute given by the Argentine Tennis Association (AAT), he was part of the technical team that led the Albiceleste to a Davis Cup tie against Kazakhstan and allowed the South American country to return to the World Group.
In this way, he was able to say goodbye to the tournament that gave him the greatest sporting glory of his career. In that series in 2016 in Zagreb, the player converted the final third point which represents the first and only ‘salad bowl’ in the albiceleste tennis record, placing him on the sports Olympus of the South American country.
Source: La Verdad
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