Del Potro Has Difficulty Making a Comeback

Written by: Staff on 29th September 2010

Del Potro Has Difficulty Making a Comeback |

More often than not, returned to a competitive court for the first time since January in Bangkok.

The 22 year-old Argentine, whose world ranking has slipped from four to 36 during his absence enforced by a wrist injury that had been troubling him since his U.S. Open triumph more than a year ago, viewed things in a pragmatic fashion in the belief he now needs to rehabilitate himself to the demands of the ATP World Tour.

“I’m just happy to be back on the circuit and I hope I get better and better,” said Del Potro whose first match since losing in the fourth round of January’s Australian Open saw him lose out 7-6, 6-4 to Olivier Rochus of Belgium in the first round of the Thailand Open. “I need to work hard to get back into the Top 10.

“Of course I would love to be back there soon. The most important thing for today is my wrist – and it’s perfect. I hope to play five or six more tournaments between now and the end of the season. We will see how it goes.”

Most pleasingly for Del Potro, who was forced to accept defeat in his bid to defend his initial Grand Slam title at New York’s Flushing Meadows a month ago, was the fact his forceful and widely respected serving action immediately started to fire the big deliveries with 16 aces to his name.

“I played a good match, I had my chances in the first set tie-break and he played some great points,” reported Del Potro who apart from a little expected first-match-back stiffness reported a clean bill of health from his 1 hour, 44 minutes work out and now heads for next week’s Rakuten Japan Open in Tokyo.

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