A week after his 40th birthday,
Roger Federer
announced that he will undergo his third knee operation in the past 18 months and will be absent from the slopes for a long time.
Not for expected, once he had resigned from the Olympic Games and had been expressing his concern about how things were going after the serious physical mishap that has only allowed him to play 13 games this season, the message does not lose an iota of its impact.
We are before the prologue of the goodbye of the winner of 20 Grand Slam titles.
Federer
will try to recover as best he can, with the limitations of his age, to organize a farewell in accordance with the extraordinary card acquired over more than two decades playing tennis as no one ever did. Beyond the advertising commitments acquired, he does not want the defeat suffered in the Wimbledon quarterfinals against the Pole
Hubert Hurkacz
: 6-3, 7-6 (4) and 6-0
to remain as his last game
.
After his recent anniversary, which he celebrated in Ibiza accompanied by his wife and four children, Federer gave some interviews to the media in his country.
In them he naturally assumes that the end is near.
He says that when he drops the red leaf he would like to see the cherry trees bloom in Tokyo, go back to skiing and learn to play the saxophone.
His figure is seen only in light of his immense legacy.
"In the past I used to look at 40 people and they were very old to me; now all of a sudden I'm one of them too," he said.
Nadak's chronic injury
Federer disappears sine die as
Nadal
faces uncertain moments due to the injury to the scaphoid in his left foot. He has only played two games since losing to
Djokovic
in the Roland Garros semifinals and his
loss
in Toronto and Cincinnati raises considerable doubts regarding his participation in the US Open, which begins on the 30th. It is not a mishap minor, but of the chronic ailment that was about to compromise his professional career more than three decades ago. Nadal's case is not comparable to Federer's. At 35, and after a season in which, although without the authority of yesteryear, he has returned to be competitive, particularly on clay, he has better arguments to fight in that race by adding the 21st
major
, already turned into a melee with Djokovic.
The Serbian, who is still the favorite to square the big four in New York in one year and thus rise to 21, has not kept up the martial pace with which he walked to lift the cup in Paris.
His unfortunate time at the Games takes away his credit.
Zverev
won gold in Tokyo.
Medvedev
won in Toronto.
On Sunday we will have a champion in Cincinnati.
An open US Open looms.
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