FEDERAL CAPITAL (ADNSUR) – Daniel Horacio Del Potro, father of tennis player Juan Martín, died today at age 63 after having heart surgery last December. Since then he was admitted to a Buenos Aires clinic.
Daniel del Potro he was a veterinarian. Although he always accompanied his son in his tennis career, he used to keep a very low profile.
He was by the tennis player’s side in his beginnings, when he played in the children’s categories, although later he delegated that responsibility to Negro Gómez, Juan Martín’s first coach, who began to take charge of traveling with the former world number 3.
Although many times he participated in Juan Martín’s commercial actions, with the preparation of contracts or discussion for the awards, Horacio del Potro was specifically dedicated to working in his field, where the specialty was cattle rearing, TN reported.
The death of his father represents a serious blow to Delpo in the middle of his search to return to the circuit after three operations on his right knee due to an injury that has not allowed him to compete since June 2019. The last intervention was carried out on the 26th of May. August in Bern, Switzerland, where he traveled to see Roland Biedert, the doctor who treats Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka. The last stop was in Porto Alegre, with the hope that the physiotherapist Luiz Fernando García will achieve results similar to those that the Uruguayan soccer symbol Diego Lugano once had.
Having their parents close by at the great tennis events was precisely one of the great motivations to overcome injuries and return to the highest level. He narrated it in June 2020, in an interview with Alejandro Fantino, on ESPN.
“My mom and dad never saw me live at a big tournament. They have seen me play Davis Cup here with my sister, she did travel to the US Open. With this issue of the knee injury and the return, this of my parents is something that does not let me be calm, it does not let me lower my arms. It makes me say ‘I have to play again’ and I have to go with my mom and dad and tell Federer: ‘Roger, say hello to my parents,’ “he said.
“From the beginning my parents have done the impossible so that I could travel. My dad is a veterinarian, my mom is a literature and language teacher and well, they have their jobs and I traveled when I could. When they collected a little money, they sent me to tournaments and there were times they couldn’t do it, “he continued, excited by the sacrifices of his parents, published Infobae.
“That work culture that they have always applied during my career. Many times there were opportunities for them to travel and my mother did not want to miss school so as not to stop teaching, the same was my father with some work in the fields. My sister has had the opportunity to travel and see me a little more, but my parents’ is something that remained pending, now because of the knee injury, “he lamented.
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