[情報] Tandil城歡慶Del Potro奪冠

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http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis/2009/09/US-Open-Tandil-Celebrates-With- del-Potro.aspx City Erupts After 'The Tower Of Tandil' Triumphs The town of Tandil, populated by just 110.000 people and located 360 kilometres from Buenos Aires, does not have a big tennis tradition. Apart from Guillermo Perez-Roldan, there have been few noteworthy players from this largely agricultural region, famous for its salami, cheese and beef. The glory years began in the late 1990s, when Mariano Zabaleta burst through as junior World No. 1. Inspired by their countryman's success, the floodgates opened for a wealth of talent from the farming area - with Juan Martin del Potro the jewel in the crown. Del Potro's introduction to tennis came about by sheer chance. Despite his stature of 6' 6", the right-hander has never played basketball or volleyball. It was football where his sporting pedigree was first harnessed and while waiting for training to begin one day he whiled away the time by picking up a racquet and starting to play tennis against the wall of Club Independiente in Tandil. He was instantly taken with the game and began tennis lessons with Marcelo Gomez, former coach to Zabaleta, Juan Monaco, Diego Junqueira and Maximo Gonzalez. Gomez began his stewardship of Del Potro when he was just five years old. By age eight, he was playing national tournaments with boys two years older than him and by the time he turned nine, he was competing in the South American Championships. Football was long forgotten. Sport runs in the del Potro blood - Juan Martin's father, Daniel, is an avid follower of rugby and football, also a great passion of the 20 year old who pledges his allegiance to the famed Boca Juniors. His mother, Patricia, is a teacher and he has a younger sister, Julieta, to whom he gave the Mercedes Benz sports car that he won with his first ATP World Tour title at the MercedesCup in Stuttgart. If he had not made it is a professional sportsman in either tennis or football, del Potro would have studied architecture – a subject he plans to take up again in the future. For now though, his tennis career continues to go from strength to strength at a startling rate and his hometown cheered his every winner as he contested his first major final – just nine days shy of his 21st birthday. All the players and coaches at Club Independiente gathered together to follow the US Open final on a big screen. With Marcelo Gomez in the first row, they celebrated jubilantly as “The Tower of Tandil” backed up his stunning semi-final win over Rafael Nadal by edging five-time defending champion Roger Federer in five pulsating sets to become just the second South American winner of the US Open trophy. “Juan Martin has just made history in Argentine tennis," declared an emotional Gomez. “At the age of 20, he beats No. 1-ranked Federer to win the US Open. I don't think he understands the magnitude of what he's just accomplished. We have a work method in Tandil. People here celebrated in the streets as if we had just won the soccer World Cup.” Delighted, the whole town came out waving Argentine flags in celebration and causing traffic jams as they danced on top of their cars. Coach Gomez was hoisted aloft by friends of Del Potro as chants of "Ole, olé, Delpo, Delpo" rang through the streets. While Tandil was the epicentre of the delirious celebrations, the rest of the country came to a stand still to follow the fortunes of the nation’s greatest tennis player. During the four hours of the match, the streets were deserted as bars in Buenos Aires were full to bursting with locals cheering every point del Potro won before erupting in a final roar and spilling onto the streets as the 20 year old ended Federer’s five-year reign at Flushing Meadows. Tandil is already preparing to welcome back del Potro, who will return from New York on Wednesday morning. The town’s mayor, Miguel Lunghi, has announced that del Potro will be named Ambassador for Sports. “We will welcome him back with every honour possible, just as he deserves,” declared Lunghi on various radio stations Tuesday. The parade will pass through the streets of Tandil, going past the Club Independiente before finishing with a party in the town centre. The next goal for the locals of Tandil is to celebrate the first Argentine to reach the No. 1 spot in the South African Airways ATP Rankings. Nobody can take away their right to dream. Tandil那晚的氣氛大概跟贏了世界盃差不多 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UHJ9z_1-7M