Go ahead Get comfortable Stare at the ceiling

He had won four titles in 2008 and needed to take the same next step as Andy Murray winning his first major.He started 2009 by winning the Heineken Open in Auckland, New Zealand. At the Australian Open the Argentine advanced to the quarterfinals, where he was summarily dismissed by Federer, 6-3, 6-0, 6-0 It was an embarrassing defeat for the No. But he managed to defeat Nadal the next week, at the Sony Ericsson tournament in Miami, during the quarterfinals. The Argentine came back from a double break down in the third set to defeat Nadal for the first time in five meetings His ranking moved up to No 5. Del Potro was finding his footing on the European clay and did well advancing through many rounds, invariably losing to higher ranked players in later stages of tournaments. He met and lost to Federer again in Madrid, this time in the semifinals after defeating Murray in the quarterfinals. It was the first time the lanky Argentine had ever taken a set off the Swiss. He was learning what it took to defeat Federer.The Argentine went out quickly on the grass still a surface he had not mastered.

He made it to the finals of Montreal by defeating Nadal, who was making a return to action after a long layoff. He lost in the finals to Murray and withdrew from Cincinnati because of fatigue.It was at the U.S. Open where del Potro accomplished his impossible dream, by defeating Federer for the first time in his career by coming back in the fifth set and winning his first major. It was an amazing two-week run for the Argentine, who defeated both the No 1 and No. 2 seeds to take the championship.The win seemed to take the wind out of the Argentine’s sails for a time. But he came back in the World Tour Finals in London to defeat Federer again and make it to the finals, when he met defeat at the hands of a red-hot Nikolay Davydenko He ended the year ranked No 5 with his first Grand Slam victory under his belt.

His improvement on the year was the greatest because he learned how to defeat the top-ranked players in the world and he took his first major at the tender age of 20. 3) Taylor Dent, nominated by Claudia Celestial GirlLay back.Go ahead Get comfortable Stare at the ceiling. You’ve been playing qualifying tournaments all year, trying to get back to where you were, but it’s tough when you’ve been out for two years You won the occasional wild card for major tournaments. You were beaten in the first round of both the AO and Wimbledon, but at Wimbledon it was a five-setter. A five-setter.Hopefully that is a harbinger of things to come You’ve got a pretty fast serve in your arsenal The fourth-fastest. Only Andy Roddick, Ivo Karlovic, and Joachim Johansson have been clocked faster than you.In the first round of the USO 2009, you go against that good-looking Spanish guy, Lopez, and beat him, 4-6, 7-6, 6-3, 7-5. In the second round, you go against another one of those Spanish guys, the one with the weird Russian name: Ivan Navarro. Following the match you take a victory lap around the stadium.