TIL Desk Sports/ An emotional Juan Martin del Potro could barely believe he had finally won a Masters 1000 series title at the 51st attempt at Indian Wells on Sunday but is determined to keep the trophies coming in his late career renaissance.
The tall Argentine with a rocket of a forehand has endured years of injury-induced heartbreak but on Sunday was back at the very top of the game, beating no less than Roger Federer in an enthralling Indian Wells final.”It’s so big,” Del Potro said. “I cannot believe I won this tournament, beating Roger in a great final and level of tennis.”
“I’m number six in the world, I think? Which is so good to me. And I’m excited to keep working … I just want to keep winning titles like this if I can.” Del Potro was tipped as a future world number one in 2009 after the then 20-year-old reached the French Open semi-finals, the Australian Open quarter-finals before capturing his maiden Grand Slam at Flushing Meadows.
He failed to break the dominance of Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray in the years following, though, and a string of career-threatening wrist injuries hampered his game and almost forced him to give up on tennis.
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