Juan Martín del Potro

Argentine tennis player (born 1988)

Juan Martín del Potro made a career in sport at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.

The record lists Juan Martín del Potro as Argentine tennis player (born 1988).

Juan Martín del Potro was born at Tandil in 1988. His recorded nationality is Argentina.

Modern careers are conducted in public and at speed, with reputations formed and revised far faster than the work itself changes.

The record gives his occupations as tennis player.

Athletic careers are short and pitilessly measured, which is what makes the great ones legible.

Working from Argentina shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.

Juan Martín del Potro is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.

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