He lost $ 30 million due to his father’s ineptitude. Suddenly he realized the catastrophe

In recent years, life has not spared. The 33-year-old Argentine has been absent from rank tournaments for almost 2.5 years due to a knee injury. It turns out that the titled tennis player also has serious financial problems that he did not even know about …

Juan Martin del Potro’s huge debts. His lost father could have lost $ 30 million

For years, del Potro’s father, Daniel, who was a former rugby coach and veterinarian, was in charge of del Potro’s finances. Juan trusted him blindly and did not control his father’s activities. After his death in January 2021, however, unsuccessful business and unpaid loans came to light, and bailiffs knocked on the tennis player. According to the journalists of the TV show “A la tarte” del Potro senior, he could lose up to $ 30 million. The unsuccessful investments include the lease of 9,000 hectares of land and the purchase of equipment necessary to create a soybean plantation.

– He has no more than three million dollars in his account. Of course, this is not a small amount of money, but he probably thought that he would never have to work again until he realized this disaster – journalist Karina Mazzocco said during the show.

The difficult financial situation does not help the tennis player to return to the sport as planned. According to his announcements, he wants to play in the ATP 250 tournaments in Buenos Aires and the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro. Both will take place in February 2022. For now, the fight against time is on.

Del Potro was the third tennis player in the world in the past. He has won in 2009, as well as a silver medal at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in London. For the last time in ATP tournaments he won in Indian Wells in 2018. The last match was played in June 2019 in London.