Fede Delbonis has had his ‘last dance’ in professional tennis and will have a touching tribute at the Argentina Open

The last active hero of Argentina’s historic consecration of the 2016 Davis Cup has hung up his racket. Federico Delbonis retires. And he did it in front of his people, on the clay of Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis and next to a friend.

The 33-year-old from Azulejo, invited to play the doubles draw at the Argentina Open, found himself alongside Facundo Bagnis 6-4 and 6-2 against the Spaniards Roberto Carballes Baena AND Jaume Munar. He thus put an end to a career that lasted more than fifteen years.

After the last point, aware of the moment he was experiencing, he hugged his partner tightly and then began to feel the warmth of the audience gathered on the night in Buenos Aires: applause and shouts that chanted ‘Faith, Faith’, while some fans exclaimed , reminding him of his success at Davis.

In the subsequent press conference, ‘Delbo’ stated that this was a “healthy” and “correct” decision, since his “daily and unbearable pain” They prevented him from training at the highest levels.

“Being here makes you want to keep playing, but the reality is I don’t have the physical tools to keep doing that in a calendar year.”he acknowledged.

This Wednesday, starting at 8:00 pm at the Guillermo Vilas court, the central court of Lawn Tennis, there will be a well-deserved tribute from the organization and the public, as happened in the Davis Cup series against Kazakhstan, in grains of rosary.