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Delpo's ad: Landing a blow for Argentina

By Gustavo Goitia
ESPNdeportes.com

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

BUENOS AIRES -- It was big history, written by a giant: On Monday, Argentinean Juan Martin del Potro became the new U.S. Open champion and first Latin American winner of the men's tournament since countryman Guillermo Vilas in 1977. How many sensations and memories must be going through the head of the "Tower of Tandil," a skinny, 6-foot-6, good-natured kid who doesn't turn 21 until Sept. 23. He has become the fourth Argentinean to win a Grand Slam and the first to win one on a fast court sin ...

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