{"id":285797,"date":"2025-10-08T06:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/285797\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:11:10","slug":"juan-martin-del-potro-told-why-he-should-not-be-put-in-the-tennis-hall-of-fame-by-former-top-30-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/285797\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Martin del Potro told why he should not be put in the tennis Hall of Fame by former top 30 player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a class=\"fw\" href=\"https:\/\/profile.google.com\/cp\/Cg0vZy8xMXlnMTNoeXE4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/wp-content\/themes\/grv-media\/img\/google-discover.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> Follow us on Google Discover <\/a>  <\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2026 nominees for the International Tennis Hall of Fame have been confirmed, with Roger Federer and Juan Martin del Potro making the cut.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/roger-federer-confirms-how-often-hes-now-playing-tennis-after-retiring-from-the-sport-three-years-ago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federer is playing tennis regularly<\/a> after his retirement in 2022, having won 20 Grand Slam titles during his stunning professional career.<\/p>\n<p>He won 103 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/atp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ATP<\/a> titles in total and reached number one in the world rankings, while fellow legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/juan-martin-del-potro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Del Potro<\/a> reached as high as number three.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine won 22 ATP titles during his fantastic career, including the 2009 US Open, where he beat Federer in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Del Potro also reached the final of the hard-court Grand Slam in 2018, but lost out to Novak Djokovic in New York.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-90753128-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Roger Federer and Juan Martin Del Potro hold their US Open trophies.\" class=\"wp-image-113508\" \/>Photo by Al Bello\/Getty ImagesJuan Martin del Potro told why he shouldn\u2019t be in the tennis Hall of Fame<\/p>\n<p>But his nomination for the International Tennis Hall of Fame has drawn criticism from former world number 21 and four-time ATP champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/steve-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Johnson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing if Del Potro should be included, Johnson said on the Nothing Major Show: \u201cI don\u2019t think so. He has got one Slam. He was never number one in the world. The longevity was not there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/throwbacks\/what-roger-federer-said-was-the-reason-he-lost-the-us-open-final-in-2009-it-cost-him-the-match\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What Roger Federer said was the reason he lost the US Open final in 2009, it \u2018cost him the match\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be in the Hall of Fame you better be one of the best in the world of all time and I just don\u2019t think he had long enough success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot taking anything away from his career but to be in the Hall of Fame, you better be pretty damn good and have a long, successful career. I just don\u2019t think he did it long enough and only one Slam should not get you in I don\u2019t think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Juan Martin del Potro\u2019s career stats after tennis Hall of Fame nomination<\/p>\n<p>Federer\u2019s inclusion alongside Del Potro certainly does the Argentine no favours, with the Swiss icon representing one of the greatest tennis players ever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/roger-federer-selects-who-he-thinks-are-the-five-greatest-tennis-players-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federer knows his five greatest players<\/a>, but he undoubtedly deserves a spot on that list after his remarkable career.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/juan-martin-del-potro-makes-promise-to-supporters-after-he-officially-retires-from-tennis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Del Potro finished his career happy<\/a> at the end of last year with a 439-174 win-loss record, while his feats also include two Olympic medals.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed silver at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, four years after taking bronze at the tournament in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover The 2026 nominees for the International Tennis Hall of Fame have been confirmed,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":285798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1479,35117,62,12334,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-285797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-juan-martin-del-potro","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-steve-johnson","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115337067643206004","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}