When Federer returns to the circuit in January 2017, six months have passed since his knee surgery. The caravan did not wait for him. He thus attacks the Australian Open with the status of seeded No. 17. He is therefore only half-protected. In his luggage, in all and for all, three singles at the Hopman Cup, a mixed team exhibition. Which is to say, not much. But an innovation immediately strikes observers: the Swiss has bought a new backhand.
