Falant at the 16th PATI ranking place, Switzerland has played thirteen games this year after a year of interruption related to a double-intervention on the right knee.
Le Monde with AFP
Launched in a delicate rehabilitation of a knee, Roger Federer aims for a return to the competition at “the summer of 2022”, thus excluding to participate in the Open of Australia, in an interview, Wednesday, November 17, at The Genève Tribune
“The truth is that I would be incredibly surprised to play Wimbledon; suggest that Australia does not even come into play,” the Swiss tennis icon.
Fall on Monday at 16 E Place of the ATP ranking, Roger Federer, 40 years, which has played thirteen games this year after a year of interruption related to a double knee intervention right, “said [his] return to the competition for the summer of 2022”, but “warns that the next four or five months will be decisive”.
Catching up by the pain during the grass season, he had been eliminated in Wimbledon’s quarterfinals and then stated for the Tokyo Olympics, undergoing two operations to “suture” his right internal meniscus and “process” his] cartilage “.
” Still some big games “
“This operation, I was going anyway to do it for my long-term well-being (…) to ski with my children, play football or tennis with my friends in the coming decades . My first motivation was to get in shape for my life as a man, “also explained the native of Basel.
While Federer can not “start running quietly” only from January 2022, before starting in March-April “a training that looks like tennis”, he was very careful about his ambitions : “I want to go see one last time what I am capable of as a professional tennis player.”
“We all would like I can say goodbye in my own way and on a tennis court (…). And if we push the reasoning, replay in 2022 or 2023 does not make a big difference: 40 or 41 years, It’s equal, “says the winner of twenty Grand Slam tournaments. “The question is rather: do I get to hurt my day after day? Today, my heart answers yes. So, I take things step by step (…). And even if I know what I know The end is near, I want to try to play a few big games, “he added.