Roger Federer – The Swiss still absent 7 months? “I would be incredibly surprised if I could play Wimbledon”

Roger Federer dropped a mini-bomb at La Tribune de Genève this Wednesday morning. Absent from the courts since his elimination against Hubert Hurkacz (6-3, 7-6, 6-0) in the quarter-finals of the last Wimbledon tournament, the 40-year-old Swiss could still miss seven months of competition. “The truth is, I would be incredibly surprised if I could play Wimbledon. Suffice to say that Australia is not even taken into account and this is not a surprise“, said the winner of 20 Grand Slam tournaments, confirming the words of Ivan Ljubicic.

Despite this new long absence to come, Roger Federer, operated on his right knee last summer for the third time, does not want to hang up. “My ambition is to see what I’m capable of one last time, he added. My life is not going to collapse if I don’t play a Grand Slam final again, but it would be the ultimate dream to go back. And in fact, I still believe in it“Currently sixteenth in the ATP ranking, the Swiss risk falling in the world hierarchy in view of this new long absence.

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