Juan Martin del Potro injury update: Rehab/Practicing. Intends return Jan/Feb '16

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RE: Breaking news: Juan Martin del Potro surgery will sideline him for rest of season

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Front242 said:
Here's the article isabelle read I believe. If you don't speak Italian you can use google translate.

http://www.tennisworlditalia.com/Il-polso-fa-ancora-male-altro-intervento-chirurgico-per-Juan-Martin-Del-Potro-articolo23494.html


Yes it's this article that says that Delpo could have another surgery, it has already been translated in all languages of the world...all tennis forums talk about it (menstennisforums.com for ex). Delpo's camp hasn't confirmed yet, hope it's not true but you can't say it's a gossip (unfortunately)
tennisworlditalia.com has already given some true infos, it's NOT a gossip website if not I would have ignored it. Just wait and see if info is confirmed or not, I miss Juan a lot and I worry about the future

Dr. Isabelle: I know you like to be the first with news about all of the injuries to players. It's a quirk of yours, and one of the reasons we like you. But you have to distinguish between a reliable source and one that's not. tennisworlditalia.com, which I follow, is about the same level of news source that Tennis Frontier is, which is to say, that we cull from other news sources. (Though at least we cite sources, or mention if something is just "rumor.") There is no "primary" source (meaning a reputable one) to say that Del Potro is having another surgery. It doesn't matter that it has been 'translated around the world,' which is completely facile. It's still at the level of gossip, and I, for one, hope it's not true. It would have helpful if you had cited the source, originally, so that we could have known that is was of questionable provenance.
 

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RE: Breaking news: Juan Martin del Potro surgery will sideline him for rest of season

There seems to be lot of news about JMDP in the last 12 hours or so. However, nothing
is available in English yet. I get the rough idea that JMDP has called it an year and
applied for protected rankings and will retain his current ranking when he starts playing
again in 2015.

I seek the help of Spanish speakers to google up on JMDP and then translate what
they see in the news section on JMDP.
 

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RE: Breaking news: Juan Martin del Potro surgery will sideline him for rest of season

I read in Clarin that he'll play Acapulco 2015 but how to know such a long time before ??? Wait and see
 

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RE: Breaking news: Juan Martin del Potro surgery will sideline him for rest of season

Here is a link.

http://www.elcomercio.com/deportes/tenis-delpotro-juan-monaco-argentina.html

I would appreciate if somebody who knows the language can tell me what it says.

In particular, I would like to know whether he has called it an year.

This is just one link. Suddenly in the last 24 hours there were several news articles
about him in the Spanish Media. However, I could not find a single one in English.
 

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RE: Breaking news: Juan Martin del Potro surgery will sideline him for rest of season

I think my interpretation is wrong. He is probably playing the indoor season.
Here is another link . While I cannot read, this one shows photos of him working out in the
Gym.

Also, if he has called it an year, it would be a major news and would have made it to English
media. Since that is not happening, all the news articles in Spanish media in the last 24 hours
might be due to their excitement over JMDP coming back.
 

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RE: Breaking news: Juan Martin del Potro surgery will sideline him for rest of season

But, JMDP's name is not there in the list of player for any of the tournaments: Moscow,
Stockholm, Vienna, Basel or Valencia. Of course, he can always easily get a wild card into
any of them, if he is ready.
 

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Contrary to what I imagined, everything is good. According to his twitter feeds, he is
working out hard and plans to return to the courts soon. But, he is not telling when and where.
 

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RE: Breaking news: Juan Martin del Potro surgery will sideline him for rest of season

^^yes del potro mentioned "returning to the courts very soon" in his poasts..so looks like some wildcards might be floating off in his gereral direction pretty soon. I think so.

if the tower plays 3 weeks..atp250/500/1000 he will have a few matches given that he prob will not be winning alot after his injury. no way will he be winning each week so entering 3 tourneys is a good idea.
 

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RE: Breaking news: Juan Martin del Potro surgery will sideline him for rest of season

Hope he wins one of them.
 

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RE: Breaking news: Juan Martin del Potro surgery will sideline him for rest of season

A slightly different bit of news comes from canchallena.com to say that JMDP will say next week what his next plans are.
 

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RE: Breaking news: Juan Martin del Potro surgery will sideline him for rest of season

He either wears long johns like a grandad or he has a dodgy leg as well going by this photo.

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RE: Breaking news: Juan Martin del Potro surgery will sideline him for rest of season

GameSetAndMath said:
But, JMDP's name is not there in the list of player for any of the tournaments: Moscow,
Stockholm, Vienna, Basel or Valencia. Of course, he can always easily get a wild card into
any of them, if he is ready.

He's on Basel's entry list but nobody seems to know if he'll really show up
 

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RE: Breaking news: Juan Martin del Potro surgery will sideline him for rest of season

I don't see JMDP's name yet in any of the three ATP 250 indoor events to be played
next week. Anyone know whether he plans to play a 250 next week.

But, his name is certainly there in Basel.
 

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RE: Breaking news: Juan Martin del Potro surgery will sideline him for rest of season

^^maybe tandil's grooviest tower is settling for basel atp500 and paris1000 for this year.

I was thinking maybe a atp250 tourney as well to give him 3 tourneys to get a few matches in, but looks like no atp250 for del potro this time..if he is still in argentina and the 250s start on Monday/Tuesday he would be there now if he were going to [play.
 

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RE: Breaking news: Juan Martin del Potro surgery will sideline him for rest of season

Apparently, the tower of Tandil is busy romancing to play in tournaments.
 

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All wild cards in all three atp 250 indoor tourneys of next week have been awarded already.
So, it is now official that JMDP is not playing next week.
 

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RE: Breaking news: Juan Martin del Potro surgery will sideline him for rest of season

Will he play Basel ? Or skip the whole season ? wait and see : for the moment, his name is still on Basel's entry list
 

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Will he play Basel ? Or skip the whole season ? wait and see : for the moment, his name is still on Basel's entry list

He is currently ranked 29th. He defends 500 points in Basel (he was the winner last
year) and 180 points in Bercy (he reached QF last year). These two together account
for more than half of the points he holds. If you drop these points without any replacement,
his rankings drop all the way to 90s.

Even if he shows up at both Basel and Bercy, it is almost impossible for him to
be a seeded player at AO>
 

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RE: Breaking news: Juan Martin del Potro surgery will sideline him for rest of season

Thought he'd applied for protected ranking in which case he's most likely written the year off?
 

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RE: Breaking news: Juan Martin del Potro surgery will sideline him for rest of season

Front242 said:
Thought he'd applied for protected ranking in which case he's most likely written the year off?

He is certainly eligible to apply for protected rankings as he meets the requirement of
being out of action for more than six months.

While I am not sure, I think he did not apply. This is because I see his name going down
the charts week after week. He is ranked 29 as of today.