ROGER FEDERER ceased to be number one in Switzerland in a national rankingthe position he held for 21 years: he first took it in 2001, before he was the international star which it later became. For now, on the 44th step, he continues as the Swiss number one in the ATP ranking.
The champion of 20 Grand Slams, inactive since July of last yeardisappeared from the national ranking that is updated every six months and gave way to Henri Laaksonen, actual 87º of the ATP ranking. In that sense also disappeared Stanislas Wawrinka, who returned last week in Marbella after a year of inactivity. Both will return to the list once they add ATP points in some tournament.
Federer played his last match at Wimbledonin the defeat in the quarterfinals against the Pole Hubert Hurkacz, and already He has been out of court for eight months. after you’ve been operated three times on the right knee.
The Swiss had returned to the circuit in March 2021, in Doha, after undergoing two arthroscopies on his right knee in 2020, during the stoppage due to the pandemic. He only played a handful of games in the last two seasons: 19 matches, with 14 wins and 5 losses. In 2021 he only acted in thirteen games, with a record of 9 wins and 4 falls.
They are the thirteen total commitments faced in the last 23 monthsgiven that in 2020 underwent both surgeries on the knee and, until his return last year in Qatar, in March, he had not played since the 2020 Australian Open. Now he is recovering from the third operation, already 40 years old, and the long-awaited return It will take place sometime during this 2022.
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