The Swiss tennis player Roger Federer, who has spent much of this season off the slopes due to a knee injury, and with two arthroscopies to solve it, has indicated that he could return to competition in the Australian Open, which will be played from February 8 to 21.
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In an interview with your country’s magazine Swiss Illustratede, the Basel champion reviewed the difficult season 2020 and he left that possibility open, although his environment indicates that he will only do so if he is fully fit to compete at the highest level.
“I have yet to fully test how my knee is doing on the court, but I hope to be able to play in Australia,” said Federer, who also said that he would spend Christmas in Dubai and was already making preparations to travel to Melbourne later, because the climate of the Arab Emirates it is better to start workouts with your knee operated.
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Australian Open director Craig Tiley also recently announced that Federer had pledged to be “with the best” at the Melbourne tournament, which has been a month behind its usual dates due to the pandemic.
Australia is the last tournament where Federer has played, since in the edition of the beginning of this year, after losing the semifinal against Novak Djokovic, had surgery arthroscopic on his right knee that has kept him off the slopes throughout 2020, and then another afterwards, after verifying that the results were not as expected.
Despite this, the one from Basel still occupies fifth place in the ATP rankings this year, where the number one is Djokovic and the second position is occupied by the Spanish Rafael Nadal.
In the interview, the 39-year-old compared his current situation with that of 2016, another year in which he was also separated from the competition due to injury, although then he already showed that he is capable of fully recovering and continuing to win after that.
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He also mentioned his friend and rival Rafa Nadal: “I spoke a lot with him during this break, we are in the Players Council and we were wondering what is best for the sport or how we can move this forward,” he said in reference to the impact that the coronavirus it has also had in the world of tennis.
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