Juan Martín del Potro

Who is Juan Martín del Potro?

Juan Martín del Potro, often nicknamed Delpo, is an Argentine professional tennis player who is currently ranked World No. 4 and is the highest-ranked Argentine. Del Potro achieved a top-10 ranking by the Association of Tennis Professionals for the first time on 6 October 2008. In January 2010, he reached a then-career-high ranking of World No. 4, after which del Potro had to withdraw from most of the tournaments in 2010 due to a wrist injury. He is coached by Franco Davín.

Having started playing tennis at the age of seven, del Potro won his first senior match in 2004 at the age of 15. In 2008, he became the first player in ATP history to win his first four career titles in as many tournaments. He also completed the second-longest winning streak in 2008, and the second longest by a teenager in the Open Era, behind Rafael Nadal—with his winning sequence spanning 23 matches over five tournaments.

Del Potro captured his first Grand Slam title at the 2009 US Open, defeating Nadal in the semifinal and Roger Federer in the final—the first man to defeat them both in the same Grand Slam tournament. Del Potro is one of only two players other than the Big Four to have won a men's Grand Slam singles title since 2005, the other being Stanislas Wawrinka. He became the second Argentine and the fifth-youngest man to win the US Open title in the Open Era. Del Potro also won the bronze medal in men's singles at the London Olympics in 2012.