But when will we see Roger Federer on the courts of the ATP circuit?

At the moment, he himself does not know.

The Swiss, who has just celebrated his 40th birthday, still has a knee injury.

If he doesn't worry more than that, he'll still have to take his pain patiently.

Asked in an interview published on Friday by the newspaper

Blick

 about his physical condition, Federer said he was “fine”.

" I was on holiday.

I haven't done anything for a while because of my knee.

I had to stop everything after Wimbledon, ”he explains.

“This week, I have to meet my doctors and my team, and then we will see what happens next.

For now, everything is still a little uncertain, ”he adds.

Shifts to Wim and then nothing

The former world number 1 played only 13 games in 2021, after a 2020 season disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and marked by two knee operations, during which he only played six times.

After retiring before the round of 16 at Roland Garros in order to prepare for Wimbledon, he was eliminated in the quarterfinals of his favorite tournament by the Polish Hubert Hurkacz.

Since then, the signals have not prompted optimism: he has given up on the Olympic Games in Tokyo, and forfeited the Masters 1000 in Toronto and Cincinnati, raising doubts about his participation in the US Open which begins on August 30.

“It was different before.

The questions were simple: what is my place in the ranking?

What will my next tournament be?

Today, it's more difficult: how do I feel when I start training again?

What are my goals?

How to reconcile all this with the family?

What does the rest of the team say?

», Confides the Swiss champion to the newspaper Blick.

Still "beautiful things to come"

“Before, if my back was blocked, it lasted two days and everything was fine.

Today it may take two weeks.

It is about being more patient with the pain, with oneself, with the return to the field, ”he continues.

He also looks back on his 40 years, which he spent with family and friends.

“I just turned forty and I'm still active.

Who would have believed it ?

Surely not me.

I'm totally in tune with myself and I'm sure there is still a lot of great things to come.

"

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