{"id":7880,"date":"2024-12-08T21:46:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T21:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/juan-martin-del-potro-beats-novak-djokovic-in-farewell-exhibition\/"},"modified":"2024-12-08T21:46:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T21:46:32","slug":"juan-martin-del-potro-beats-novak-djokovic-in-farewell-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/juan-martin-del-potro-beats-novak-djokovic-in-farewell-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Martin del Potro beats Novak Djokovic in farewell exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Carlos Alcaraz and Gael Monfils featured in a video tribute to the Argentine.<\/p>\n

Del Potro beat five-time defending champion Federer to win the US Open in 2009.<\/p>\n

He reached the final in New York again in 2018 but lost to Djokovic.<\/p>\n

A popular player with a huge forehand, Del Potro won two Olympic medals – bronze in 2012 and silver four years later.<\/p>\n

He claimed 22 ATP singles titles in his career and was as high as number three in the world rankings.<\/p>\n

However, a wrist injury derailed his career after his US Open victory before he seriously injured his knee at Queen’s in 2019.<\/p>\n

Del Potro released a video on Instagram last week, external<\/span><\/a> discussing the long-term impact injuries have had on his body.<\/p>\n

“My daily life isn’t what I would like it to be. It’s very tough. There are moments where I have no more strength,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I’m not indestructible. I have good things, bad things but most of the time I have to fake it and put on a good face, but many times I feel terrible.<\/p>\n

“Since that moment [after surgery in 2019], I was never able to climb stairs without pain. <\/p>\n

“I hurts when I drive, it hurts many times when I go to sleep. It’s been a never-ending nightmare.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Carlos Alcaraz and Gael Monfils featured in a video tribute to the Argentine. Del Potro beat five-time defending champion Federer to win the US Open in 2009. He reached the final in New York again in 2018 but lost to Djokovic. A popular player with a huge forehand, Del Potro won […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7882,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions\/7882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}