Juan Martin Del Potro – Kevin Anderson

Kevin Anderson (ATP 75)

South African even he can not boast too many games played this season. Kevin has played one game in 2017 defeat in the first round of the Delray Beach 7-6 6-7 4-6 in front Dzumhur Damir (ATP 79)

Injuries have not protected Anderson in recent seasons, which is why the current South African ranked in the ATP rankings. A former top 10 player, Kevin has played 40 matches last season, recording 19 wins and 21 defeats, 27 of which were played on hard surface this and Delray Beach. This is the champion in this competition, managed to win the tournament in 2012 after a final Marinko Matosevic played in his company.

In 2017 Anderson failed to exceed the threshold sferturilot finals in tournaments attended. This result was obtained in Nottingham, Toronto, Chengdu and Stockholm.

Juan Martín del Potro (ATP 42)

Located on the first official match after winning the Davis Cup with Argentina in 2016 “Delpo” hopes to return with a win in the ATP circuit. At the end of the previous season, it brought victory in the duel played for his country against Croatia, with two wins against Ivo Karlovic’s Marin Cilic and his. That title was first won by Argentina in this competition.

In the previous season, Juan Martin has succeeded and other important performance, besides winning the Davis Cup. One of them is the silver medal, which he managed to win at the Olympics in Rio. During that tournament, Del Potro managed to beat opponents like Novak Djokovic or Rafael Nadal. Against Another result obtained in 2017 won the title of Stockholm, where he passed the last lap of Jack Sock (ATP 21), by a score of 7-5, 6-1.

Head to Head

The two players have met 5 times until now, all these parties being played on hard. The last meeting was held in 2013 in Washington, where Juan Martin was imposed by 7-6, 6-3. Moreover, Argentina has won all 5 matches played against South African player.