The Serbian, who is registered to reappear in Dubai from February 21, is a year younger and has the best balance in the last courses, but it depends on his temperament. The Swiss only played 12 games in 2021.
At the end of last November, Roger Federer confessed in Sky Sports that he saw it difficult to reappear in the next Wimbledon tournament, but that in April or May he would have a more concrete perspective on his return to the courts. The Swiss, who on Sunday elegantly congratulated RafaelNadal via Instagram, just like you did Novak Djokovic on his Twitter account, he underwent his third operation on his right knee in August, after the two operations carried out throughout 2020. He is 40 years old, in 2021 he played 12 games, the last of them in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon, losing to Hubert Hurkacz 6-3, 7-6 (4) and 6-0, and this week he appears as number 30 in the world, a place to which he has not descended for almost two decades. He won his 20th major in Melbourne in 2018. His last title, the 103rd, in Basel in the fall of 2019.
After the false start of the Australian Open and the outcome of the tournament detrimental to his aspirations, Djokovic could compete again at the ATP 500 in Dubai, where he is registered, the week of February 21. The Serbian played his last individual match in the Davis Cup, against Marin Cilic, in Madrid, on December 3. He won his 20th major at Wimbledon last summer and his most recent title at Paris-Bercy, his 37th Masters 1000, in late 2021.
with his second major in Melbourne and twenty-first in his career, Nadal, already the sole leader of that classification, is for the first time ahead of the Swiss, whom he came to glimpse at a considerable distance. Djokovic joined the dispute later, but he is the one who has won the most titles in this category since 2018, a total of eight, three of them last year, compared to the five of the Spaniard, who went blank in 2021. latest of Nadal’s greatest successes before the admirable performance against Daniil Medvedev, had achieved it in October 2020, at Roland Garros moved from its usual dates due to the pandemic.
Federer’s uncertain future
The news about Federer, who can be seen on social networks at events with his foundation or vacations in Boston enjoying the NBA with the former player Andy RoddickThey are not at all hopeful. It could almost be ensured that those two match points that he had to win the twenty-first major at Wimbledon, in 2019, were his last attempt to compete in a fight for which he will never be ready again. His intention may be to close his brilliant career with a result more in keeping with his category than the one he suffered at the All England Club against Hurkacz.
Still to know the emotional effects after the lost pulse against the Australian Government, Djokovic represents a very different case. Despite losing the final of the US Open against Medvedev, which would have catapulted him to 21st, his course was colossal, with victory in the other three majors. The victory at Roland Garros, where he beat Nadal in the semifinals and lifted two adverse sets to Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final it was a qualitative leap.
Almost a year younger than Nadal and with a much less punished physique, Nole it does represent a threat to the southpaw in his desire to defend the idyllic position exclusively acquired on Sunday. His volcanic temperament, which played tricks on him such as disqualification at the 2020 US Open, and his stubbornness in not getting vaccinated against Covid, weaken the Balkan’s candidacy.
The emergence of Medvedev, winner of the US Open and finalist in the last two editions of the Australian Open, is an exogenous factor, to which perhaps at some point men like Tsitsipas and Alexander Zverev.
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