He played in the Hacoaj JCC club in Buenos Aires, a social club “ founded by and for Jews who were barred from the other sports facilities in Bueno Aires in the early 20th century.”ħ. He often plays in a tie-dye kit, like this pink tie dye at the 2021 French Open:Ī post shared by Diego Schwartzman rainbow tie-dye in 2020.Ħ. And he had flair he’d boast to us about beating players who were a lot taller than him.”ĥ. He played soccer as a child as well, but the things he was capable of doing in tennis were out of the ordinary. Still, he never wanted to play with a junior racquet it always had to be a big racquet. He wasn’t even as tall as the height of the net at the time. I’d play in the long corridors of the local tennis club and Diego would spend hours with my husband on the court. “He had incredible timing, even at a young age. Okay, one more quote from Silvana, Diego’s amazing mom: I pushed him to keep fighting,” she said. I told Diego he was wrong and his height shouldn’t have an influence on his dreams because since the day he was born, I knew he would become something special. “He told me he wasn’t going to do anything well in life if the doctor was right.

When, at age 13, a doctor told him he wouldn’t grow beyond 5’7″, he came home and told his parents, “I’m not going to play tennis anymore.” His mom, in classic Jewish mom fashion, refused to let him give up. He attended Hebrew school but said, “I did not have time for Hebrew school because of tennis.” He still had a bar mitzvah.Ĥ. A post shared by Diego Schwartzman He was named after the Argentinian soccer star Diego Maradona.

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