The world of tennis is in all its states at the start of 2022.
While the Djokovic case is still in full swing in Australia after the announcement by the Minister of Immigration of the new suspension of the Serbian player’s visa, bad news has reached us from Argentina concerning the financial situation of Juan Martin Del Potro.
The Argentinian, who is due to make his comeback to competition on January 31 at the Cordoba tournament after four knee operations, had the very bad surprise to learn after the death of his father that he had lost 30 million dollars of his fortune because of bad investments made by his father who died a year ago to the day, on January 14, 2021.
According to the Argentinian site Chronicle, Daniel Del Potro, who managed the fortune of his son since the beginning of his career in 2005, would have lost 90% of the earnings of Juan Martin who would have “only” 3 million dollars in the bank. Which is really not a big deal compared to his earnings on the circuit (nearly 26 million) and the revenue linked to his various sponsors.
We also learn that the Argentinian tennis player’s father squandered his son’s fortune in bad investments placed in various fields such as soybeans, farms, real estate and other loans that he never repaid when his businesses collapsed. collapsed. Also according to the investigation, Daniel, the father, was probably jealous of his son’s fortune, going so far as to assign detectives to his girlfriends to verify that they were not taking advantage of him through his financial situation. A very sad story…
Posted on Friday, January 14, 2022 at 5:17 PM
