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Juan Martin del Potro, the 2009 U.S. Open males’s singles champion, heads the record of participant nominees for the 2027 International Tennis Hall of Fame class.
del Potro, of Argentina, was joined on the poll by former WTA stars Ash Barty of Australia and Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia, the Hall introduced Monday.
del Potro received 22 instances on the ATP Tour, along with his most notable triumph coming 17 years in the past in Flushing Meadows. He took down Rafael Nadal within the semifinals after which Roger Federer within the last for his lone Grand Slam title. Against Federer, del Potro rallied from two units to 1 right down to dethrone the five-time defending champion.
The Argentine skilled worldwide glory in 2016 when he led his nation to its first Davis Cup championship. He additionally earned a silver medal in singles on the Rio Olympics that yr.
Barty received three majors and stood atop the WTA rankings for 121 weeks in her profession. She received the French Open girls’s singles title in 2019, the Wimbledon singles title in 2021 and the Australian Open girls’s title in 2022. Her worldwide resume included a bronze medal in blended doubles on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Kuznetsova received two majors every in singles (2004 U.S. Open, 2009 French Open) and doubles (2005 and 2012 Australian Open). She received 18 singles titles and 16 doubles titles on tour. She was ranked as excessive as No. 2 in singles and No. 3 in doubles.
Fans can vote on the nominees by means of Oct. 25. The outcomes might be utilized as bonus factors to the voting percentages produced by the Hall’s Official Voting Group, a panel composed of tennis journalists, historians and Hall of Famers. A candidate should obtain no less than 75 p.c of the mixed vote from the followers and Official Voting Group for induction.
–Field Level Media