2024-11-26 15:07:00
Published on November 26, 2024 at 4:07 p.m. – updated on November 26, 2024 at 4:37 p.m.
A few days before his exhibition match against Novak Djokovic, Juan Martin del Potro (36 years old) spoke at length about his state of health, he who has multiplied operations during his career, and after. The Argentine tennis player suffers from a lot of pain on a daily basis.
But how will Juan Martin del Potro be able to play a match, even if it’s just a simple exhibition, this Sunday against Novak Djokovic in Buenos Aires? The 36-year-old Argentine tennis player will definitely turn the page on his career during this meeting, even if he has not, in fact, played a tennis match since February 2022 and not won since June 2019. According to his incredible testimony, via an eleven-minute video published on his social networks, the winner of the 2009 US Open is experiencing a physical and psychological ordeal. Already operated on several times on his wrists and knees during his career, the former world No. 3 suffers even more since he stopped playing tennis. “I’m trapped in an unresponsive body,” he begins. Before detailing his medical situation, which sends chills down your spine: “I stayed two months in Switzerland, in a village near Basel, for my rehabilitation, but it didn’t work. After two and a half months, I had my sixth operation. I returned to the United States, I had more than a hundred injections, infiltrations everywhere, in a hip, a leg, my back… These are daily sufferings. This has been my life since my last match. (…) I haven’t run since I was 31, I can’t climb stairs, I hurt when I drive, hurt when I go to bed, I can’t kick a ball, I I could never play tennis properly again. It’s a never-ending nightmare. I hope one day it will stop. I want to live without pain. »
About ten pills every morning
Juan Martin del Potro is considering having a prosthesis fitted, even though some doctors believe he is still too young. In the meantime, every morning, the former tennis player has to take six or seven pills, an anti-inflammatory, a painkiller and another for anxiety, he counts. “Emotional pain surpasses physical pain. I felt strong at the time in the face of these obstacles, but I understood that I am not that strong… This is not the life I wanted. It’s terrible. At times, I no longer have the strength. I’m not indestructible. I often play a role while feeling bad,” Del Potro concludes, so the situation can only attract compassion. The Argentinian is obviously going through a terrible retirement.
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