Peter Lundgren with Roger Federer at the Wimbledon 2003 celebrations (Getty Images)
Peter Lundgren shared with his followers the sad news about his condition and that after spending several weeks hospitalized, the doctors decided to amputate his foot and part of his left leg after an infection that was complicating his health. The Swede who knew how to accompany Roger Federer for years is already recovering.
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“Thought I would give an update on my foot, unfortunately I had to have my foot and the top amputated 10 days ago and due to the infection I had and my broken ankle which did not heal due to my type 2 diabetes, as I have poor circulation. But now I am well again and my rehabilitation will begin soon and it is just a matter of giving him the iron now,” he wrote on Sunday on his Facebook account, sharing an image of his lower extremities, lying on a stretcher.
Lundgren, 58, was a professional tennis player and in 1985 he reached 25th in the ATP ranking. As a professional he won three ATP Tour singles titles (Cologne, Rye Brook and San Francisco), but his rise to fame came after his retirement, when he began working alongside Roger Federer, in addition to having been a coach for figures such as Marcelo Ríos, Marat Safin, Stan Wawrinka and Grigor Dimitrov.
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Together with the Swiss, former world number 1, he was between 2000 and 2003, at the beginning of the legend. “Roger was a very talented young man, perhaps a little lazy, he had some concentration problems, in addition to not being physically ready yet. Things started happening very quickly because he always wanted to be the best and saw that he had the potential to achieve it. The truth is that he was a difficult person to work with, but he has a big heart and is a good guy, he grew very quickly to become the great ambassador of tennis that he is today. “I am very proud of everything he has achieved,” he declared in 2020 in dialogue with Tennis Brasil.
He was with him when he won his first Grand Slam, Wimbledon 2003. “That title was what everyone expected of him, the truth is that it was even a relief,” he recalled in that interview about the title in the United Kingdom. So far there has been no public message from Federer about the amputation.
2023-10-18 00:59:19
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