Helene Elliott: Juan Martin del Potro reaches deep inside to advance in US Open
by By Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times
Sep 05, 2017
3 minutes
NEW YORK - His face was paler than the white stripe on the Argentine flag. Juan Martin del Potro, beset by a fever for two days, looked as if he belonged in bed and not on a tennis court to face No. 6 seed Dominic Thiem in the fourth round of the U.S. Open on Monday night. His performance in the first two sets was ghastlier than his appearance: He won only three games and seemed in danger of collapsing in a sweaty heap at
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