2020 showed us what the tennis tour would be like without its greatest player. The hole that Federer will leave is big enough to swallow the whole sport.
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Roger Federer, pictured at the Australian Open, said recently at the Sports Awards ceremony: “I hope there is still something to see from me in the new year. But if that’s what it was supposed to be from me, who knows, then it would be an incredible end for me. “
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Who knows what was going on in him at that moment. Handicapped by pain in the groin, presented by an opponent who had mostly been a bit better lately anyway, possibly also plagued by self-doubt: What will the future bring? Is there still such a thing for me on the tennis tour?
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