Roger Federer returns to the place again?

How big or how small is his shimmer for his comeback, possibly only Roger Federer himself. A little emotionally touched the tennis world star when he announced his next knee operation in a video on Instagram and also this remarkable sentence said: I want to give me a spark hope to return to the tour.

The fact that this violent setback could mean the end of his exception career is apparently aware of him. Although he did not talk about the conclusion of his career in the one and a half minutes, but admitted: I am realistic, I do not understand me wrong, I know how difficult an operation is at this age.

The goal remains the return to the tour

Just a week after reaching many good wishes for his 40th birthday, Federer had to report on Sunday evening from his next long forced break. I'll go to crutches for several weeks and be 'out of the game several months, the Swiss made it clear. His knee had deteriorated in the rasse season and in Wimbledon. After various investigations, he realized that it does not go without surgery.

Which injury is exactly exactly, the 20-fold Grand Slam tournament winner did not say. He wants to be healthy, he wool can run around later. And he wanted to take the rehab with the goal of continuing to be active on the tour, he added.

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Of course, Federer not only misses the US Open, which start on August 30 in New York. The rest of the season 2021 should be over for him, so much seems clear. But will the long-term number one in the world ever again competitive? In a dimension, as it would be worthy of a star of his class? When is a return conceivable? Or was that now? The doubts as to whether it creates feather again into the world tip, get bigger and bigger. Apparently, the Swiss wants to torment. It should not dictate an injury when the conclusion is.

However, more and more crystallizes that Federer is likely to be denied a crowning conclusion of his shiny tennis decades. He possibly played the last chance of a Grand Slam title in 2019 when he poured two match balls against Novak Djokovic in the longest final's history of Wimbledon. Federer had everything aligned from his favorite tournament this season after giving a comeback in March after more than a year. At the same time he had operated at the knee 2020.

Only 13 games in 2021

Federer was just 13 games this year. Last, he failed on a sobering way in the Wimbledon quarterfinal. At the latest since the 0: 6 in the third set against Poland Hubert Hurkacz, it is clear that Federer passes through a difficult phase. Afterwards the fourfold father had to leave everything first. He said for the Olympic Games in Tokyo. He renounced the prelude of the hard space season in North America.

The Spanish Topstar Rafael Nadal is currently pausing injured. And Djokovic also takes a break. However, the Serbian world ranking learned already announced to attack the gold medal again at the 2024 Olympics in Paris and put his focus on the upcoming US Open. Even in New York, Djokovic could leave his rivals Nadal and Federer with the Grand Slam Title Number 21.

Federer's goal: determine yourself when it is over

Federer's goal should be to determine itself when he wants to close his tennis chapter. Already a long time ago he said he did not stop cheesy. But with an injury it should not come to an end. More than a tiny hope for such a miraculous comeback as in 2017 should not have his biggest fans. At that time Federer surprisingly won the Australian Open and Wimbledon.