10 Best Tennis Comebacks Of All Time
9. Federer Def Del Potro - 2012 French Open
Roger Federer - the greatest tennis player
to have ever lived? I think so and so do you - don’t question me!
Federer fought back from two sets to love down for only the seventh time in his illustrious career to defeat the huge serving, 6ft 5 Argentinian Juan Martin Del Porto to reach the semi-finals of the French Open back in 2012. Del Potro - who has recently returned to the game after a two year break from a wrist injury - was leading two sets to love on a surface that leaves many quacking in their tennis shoes - their heavy, clay clotted tennis shoes that is.
All signs pointed towards a quarter final exit for the now 17
time Grand Slam champion after an awful first set fraught with unforced errors.
The second set was far closer as the Argentine won it on a close tie break, but
the stats were pilled against the Swiss as he hadn’t come back from 2 sets down
since the first round match at Wimbledon 2010, a full 2 years prior to this
meeting. However, you don’t get nicknames like ‘King Roger’ or ‘The Greatest’
for nothing.
Roger Federer (SWI) Beats Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) 3-6, 6-7(4-7), 6-2, 6-0, 6-3.