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March Madness #6: Del Potro plays role of lob monster

Lob + tweener + winner = crowd roars.

ByJonathan Scott

Published Apr 07, 2017

It's madness, I tell you! Fuzzy yellow ball style. Follow along this week for our Top 17 takeaways and outtakes from the 2017 Sunshine Double in California and Florida.

Check out No. 7 here.

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Juan Martin del Potro. Remember the name. This guy's going to be somebody.

The 2009 US Open singles champ put on a quick-thinking display against Federico Delbonis in his second-round match at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.

One might have thought Delpo was in quite a temporary quandary after initially high-balling his forehand return—a shot that Caroline Wozniacki is more given to than is this fearsome-forehanding Argentine—but he made the most.

Lob + tweener + winner = crowd roars.

Del Potro knows how to ball with the stars, though he's still getting brutal draws with his ranking of No. 35 (he fell to Novak Djokovic early in Indian Wells, and then to Roger Federer in Miami).