Tennis star returns to the courts to announce his "goodbye"

The former Argentine Flushing Meadows champion Juan Martin del Potro, who will score next week his return to tennis for the first time in two and a half years, revealed that it is more of a farewell than a return, and for this reason he chose to participate in the Buenos Aires tournament.

The 33-year-old has been out of action since he broke his knee in June 2019 while participating in the English Queens Tournament.

The Argentine, who reached the third place in the professional classification in the summer of 2018, underwent four knee surgeries due to this injury, which made him fall in the ATP classification to 757. The organizers of the Buenos Aires and Rio tournaments, which will be held a week later, announced that a card had been issued An invitation to the player who was crowned champion of Flushing Meadows in 2009, and who also broke his knee during the Shanghai Masters in October 2018, after suffering before that from multiple injuries to the wrist that also required four surgeries.

But it seems that the return will be confined to the Buenos Aires cycle, according to what he indicated on Saturday, saying, "It is more of a farewell than a return. Years have passed and I have been testing treatments, and I see doctors,

I couldn't imagine retiring while I was off the field.

There is no better course than Buenos Aires to do this (officially announcing my retirement).

After this week, I will think about the future.”

The last title and 22nd in the Argentine’s career returns to the Indian Wells Masters tournament in 2018, while his last participation in the Buenos Aires tournament dates back to 2006 when he was seventeen years old, when he was eliminated in the first round by Former world number one Juan Carlos Ferrero.

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