Open de Australia 2022 The Swiss tennis player wants to continue fighting on the circuit at the age of 40
Ehe future of Roger Federer, for many the best tennis player in history, is a mystery. At 40, he struggles to return to the slopes for a ‘last dance’ although today no one can guarantee that the Helvetian will compete again. It is not for nothing that he has undergone three knee operations in the last two years.
What does seem certain is that although it continues to be a first-rate media focus, his prominence on the slopes will be testimonial except for a miraculous recovery. Because his future undoubtedly passes through a close withdrawal.
Interestingly, the arrival of the pandemic and the ‘freezing’ of the ATP ranking made it possible for Federer to remain in the Top 10 for many months despite playing very few games in the last two years (13 in 2021 and 6 in 2020).
the swiss wanders right now by the position 17 but after this Australian Open will drop to 30th, his lowest ranking since January 8, 2001. The winner of 20 majors, let’s not forget, has been the number 1 in the world 310 weeks, in a statistic in which only Novak Djokovic surpasses them (357).
Federer could hang up his racket and pursue his business and family but the Swiss is a competitive animal and wants to retire on the court. Recently, the press in his country revealed that he was training in Dubai although We are obviously talking about very soft sessions because his knee operation still does not allow him great efforts.
Roger’s confessed dream is to play the Wimbledon tournament next summer, curiously his last appearance before going under the knife, when he lost in the quarterfinals against the Polish Hubert Hurkacz.
“It will be very difficult for me, but there is a lot of time left, maybe there is still a small chance. But I don’t want to create too many expectations, this year (for 2021) I had some problems with my knee on grass. I think I will have the clearest ideas in April or May and at that time I will give newsNow it’s hard to say,” Federer said in an interview on Italian television Sky Sport in November last year.
If you don’t arrive in time to play in the cathedral of tennis, the second option would be to reappear at the US Open, a tournament that Federer has won as many as five times between 2004 and 2008.
