A moment full of feelings was the one experienced in Socios del Espectáculo, the program that Adrián Pallares and Rodrigo Lussich carried forward through the screen Channel Thirteen, where they talked about what is happening with Juan Martín del Potro, and in which they also remembered the retirement of Gabriela Sabatini.
This has to do with the interview that the athlete gave in the cycle All about tennis, where the Tandil native expressed all his pain. «When I had surgery the first time, the doctor told me 'in 3 months you will be playing again.' This was in 2019, in June, and I had signed up for the Stockholm, Basel and Paris tournaments. Because the doctor told me 'make a note that you arrive in good time to play'. And after that first surgery, to this day I was never able to climb a staircase without pain again,” he clarified.
«On a 4-hour trip to Tandil that I make every day, I have to stop at Las Flores, which is halfway there, and stop and stretch my legs. It hurts me many times to sleep, when I turn on my side I wake up because I get punctures that are very ugly. It has been an endless nightmare that every day I keep looking for solutions and looking for doctors and alternatives and I still can't find it. “It makes me very angry, anguished and helpless when I think about it,” said Juan Martín del Potro.
«Between surgery and surgery I tried treatments, I don't know, I must have had more than 100 injections in my leg and hip and back. They infiltrated me, they took me out, they analyzed me, they burned my nerves, they blocked my tendons, that is, a daily suffering that in fact I have every day,” he stated.
After listening to it, Adrian Pallares He spoke and spoke about the painful and complicated moments that many athletes have to go through. «It is a strong physical issue… mental health too. As far as I know, he doesn't have a partner at the moment. The life of an athlete is very complicated,” he said.
«The other day we were telling my daughters who Gabriela Sabatini was. She was 26 years old when she retired, she was very young… she was third in the world,” he noted. «He decided to start living. She had spent her entire youth alone and decided to start living. In the case of Juan Martín del Potro, the worst thing is that he also ran out of money,” said Nancy Duré.
