Novak Djokovicthe former world number one and holder of the record for titles Grand Slamwill face the local tennis player Juan Martín del Potro in an exhibition match at the end of the year, after the arrival of Juan Martín del Potro was confirmed this Thursday. Argentina of the Serbian player.
‘Nole’, currently in fourth place in the league table, will participate in “El Último Desafío”, a day that will take place on Sunday, December 1 at the Parque Roca stadium, with capacity for 15,500 spectators.
The organizers of the event announced that Djokovic will arrive in Buenos Aires on November 29 and will participate in an official dinner with Del Potro, on Saturday he will give a conference for guests in which he will tell his life story and on Sunday he will play against the Argentine, former number three in the ranking.
Djokovic has won 24 Grand Slam titles and is coming off a gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics, as well as holding the record for being the player who spent the longest period at number one in the ATP rankings, with a total of 428 weeks.
Del Potro and Djokovic have met 20 times on the professional circuit, with a balance of 16 wins for the Serbian and 4 for the Argentine, who played his last match in February 2022 in Buenos Aires, but never officially announced his retirement.
In this context, Djokovic’s triumphs in the 2018 US Open final and the 2013 Wimbledon semi-final stand out, while Del Potro beat him at the 2012 London Olympics, when he won the bronze medal against ‘Nole’, and in the first round of Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
“Since I played my last match in Buenos Aires, I always felt that this was not going to be the end of my career. I feel like I still have something in store. This will be the last challenge that I have been looking for so long,” said ‘Delpo’.
This will be the second time that Djokovic has been to Argentina, after a visit in 2013, when he went with Rafael Nadal to pay tribute to David Nalbandian.
