Our
Tennis.World.Craze!’s ATP Comeback player of the year is definitely……………
Juan Martin del Potro!
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| Juan Martin del Potro. Photo by Reuters |
With his
ranking dropping to outside the world’s Top 1000 earlier this year in February,
after suffering from a wrist injury and it forced him to become inactive. No
one would have expected him to rise back into the Top 100, and also win an
Olympic Silver Medal! He also won his first title after coming back at the
Stockholm Open, defeating Jack Sock in the final.
The
highlight about his season is definitely the Silver Medal at the Rio Olympics,
creating a huge upset against World No.1 Novak Djokovic in the first round as
an unseeded player who got into the draw with a protected ranking. He then
defeated 2008 Gold Medallist and this year’s Gold Medallist in Doubles, Rafael
Nadal, in the semifinal to reach his 1st ever Gold Medal match and
assured himself an Olympic Medal. Despite putting up a tough fight, he lost to
defending Gold Medallist Andy Murray in 4 sets.