‘I remain in constant contact with Roger Federer’, says top coach

5 March، 2022

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Although he has been seen on the pitch (shortly) in 2021, Roger Federer has long since slipped into the shadows due to his knee problems. Just five tournaments, that’s the balance of the Swiss champion’s activity over the past year, with the quarter-finals at Wimbledon on 7 July representing his last appearance in official matches – clearly lost to Hubert Hurkacz.

At the umpteenth stop, caused by the new surgery in August 2021, the hint of insiders and was not oriented on the fact that “The Swiss Maestro” had come to an end, also given the advanced age. Ideas that have never been reflected in the story of Federer himself, who made it clear that he wanted to end his glorious career on the pitch and not as a spectator.

Meanwhile, however, his re-entry into the circuit remains a mystery. What is certain, according to his friend and compatriot Stan Wawrinka, is that he will not be able to return to the levels of a few years ago. Like Roger Federer, three-time Slam champion Stan Wawrinka has long been involved in an ordeal that has kept him in the pits for over a year and which will only end at Roland Garros, as he himself announced.

Guest of the podcast “Air Open”, curated by L’Équipe, Wawrinka however replied about his illustrious colleague and compatriot, expressing his doubts both on the date of his return and on Federer’s level at the time of his return to the field: “I think that it is simply impossible to know right now because from what it says, what it shows and what it does or does not do now and in recent months, it is too far away to know exactly where it will go.

He said it, until he gets back to his physical condition more intensely, he won’t know. Especially with his age and with this type of big injury, until we are in the concrete of physical preparation and tennis, we do not know when we will be back and how.”