The newly-crowned US Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro waves at people gathered to see him from a fire engine on September 17, 2009, following his arrival in his hometown Tandil, a city of 120,000 inhabitants in Buenos Aires province. Del Potro, who defeated tennis world number one Roger Federer in the final of the US Open, has enjoyed a meteoric rise through the ranks over since he emerged in 2006 from the tennis centre of Tandil, which also produced Mariano Zabaleta and Juan Monaco. AFP PHOTO/DANIEL GARCIA (Photo credit should read DANIEL GARCIA/AFP/Getty Images)
