ATP > Del Potro's terrible confidences before his match against Djokovic: “Do I have to spend another 15 years of my life like this so that at 50 I can have a prosthesis and live more or less well until my sixties? “

Haunted by injuries and a knee that is still capricious, Juan Martin Del Potro has been living a nightmare for several years.

As he prepares to play an exhibition match with Novak Djokovic on 1^is December in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in order to definitively say goodbye to Tennis, the winner of the 2009 US Open spoke about his daily life which had become very difficult.

Excerpt from his very touching video posted on Instagram: “I haven't run since I was 31 (he is 36 today, editor’s note)I can't climb the stairs, I can't kick a ball, I never played tennis again either… Do I have to spend another 15 years of my life like this so that at 50 I can have a prosthesis and live more or less well until your sixties? So I find myself in this discussion and it's also terrible, because these are the scenarios and I have to define them. Why should I make this decision if you are the doctor? I am now in the middle of all this and I hope one day it will end, because I want to live without pain. »

Published on Tuesday November 26, 2024 at 08:26