Federer on the chest, Nadal on the nurse and Djokovic on the couch

One week after turning 40, Roger Federer He announced that he will undergo his third knee operation in the last 18 months and will be a long time away from the slopes. Not for expected, once he had resigned from the Olympic Games and came expressing his concern about how things were going after the serious physical mishap that has only allowed him to play 13 games this season, the message does not lose an iota of its impact.

We are before the prologue of the goodbye of the winner of 20 Grand Slam titles. Federer try to recover as well as possible, with the limitations of his age, to organize a farewell according to the extraordinary card acquired over more than two decades playing tennis as no one ever did. Beyond the advertising commitments acquired, he does not want the defeat suffered in the Wimbledon quarterfinals against the Pole to remain as his last game Hubert Hurkacz: 6-3, 7-6 (4) and 6-0.

After his recent anniversary, which he celebrated in Ibiza accompanied by his wife and four children, Federer gave some interviews to the media in his country. In them he naturally assumes that the end is near. He says that when he drops the red leaf he would like to see the cherry trees blossom in Tokyo, go back to skiing and learn to play the saxophone. His figure is seen only in light of his immense legacy. “In the past I used to look at 40 people and they looked very old to me; now all of a sudden I’m one of them too,” he commented.

Nadak’s Chronic Injury

Federer disappears sine die while Nadal He faces uncertain times due to the injury to the scaphoid of the left foot. He has only played two games since losing to Djokovic in the semifinals of Roland Garros and his loss in Toronto and Cincinnati raises considerable doubts regarding his participation in the United States Open, which begins on the 30th. about to compromise his professional career more than three decades ago. Nadal’s case is not comparable to Federer’s. At 35, and after a season in which, although without the authority of the past, he has returned to be competitive, particularly on clay, he has better arguments to fight in that race by adding the 21st major, already turned into a melee with Djokovic.

The Serbian, who is still the favorite to square the Big Four in one year in New York and rise to 21, has not kept up the martial pace with which he walked to raise the cup in Paris. His unfortunate time at the Games takes away his credit. Zverev won gold in Tokyo. Medvedev I won in Toronto. On Sunday we will have a champion in Cincinnati. An open US Open looms.