Days after falling decisively in the Wimbledon quarterfinals against the Pole
Hubert Hurkacz
,
Roger Federer
announced that he will not play the Olympics.
"During the grass season, unfortunately I suffered a setback with my knee and I have to accept that I have to give up the Games," the Swiss explained in a statement, wishing the Swiss delegation the best.
The winner of 20 Grand Slam titles, a record that he shares since last Sunday, in addition to
Rafael Nadal
, with
Novak Djokovic
, underwent two knee operations in 2020 from which he has not yet fully recovered. Federer, who turns 40 on August 8, commented after the painful defeat at Wimbledon, a tournament he has won eight times, that he would reflect on the future with his entire team. At the moment, in the statement on Tuesday, he says that he has already started rehabilitation with the idea of playing again later in the summer, from which it is understood that his intention is to play the United States Open.
While waiting for what Djokovic decides, who, after winning Wimbledon said that the chances of going to Tokyo were 50%, the loss of the Swiss joins that of Nadal.
Federer was individual silver at the London 2012 Games and won gold four years earlier, in Beijing, in the doubles specialty, alongside
Stan Wawrinka
.
With his discharge, he definitively renounces one of the few unfulfilled challenges in his career: to climb to the top of the drawer in the individual event.
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