Roger Federer hopes to return to court in ‘late summer or early fall’

A hope of a comeback. Roger Federer, sidelined for eight months by knee problems, hopes to return at the end of the summer and should therefore not be present this year at Wimbledon, he said on Saturday March 5. in an interview on Swiss television.

“I’m doing much, much better. For two months, I moved around with crutches, it was long and I had to start from scratch. But it was the right thing to do. The knee was not well after Wimbledon“, explained the Swiss to the public channel SRF, in Lenzerheide, where he had come to attend a stage of the Ski World Cup.

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Federer clarified that he spent a few weeks ago “a very good MRI“who makes it”very positive“.”Now I’m slowly coming to a phase where I can think of a comeback“, said the former world No. 1, adding that he would need a little more time to consider returning “at the end of summer, beginning of autumn”.

Federer, who will turn 41 on August 8, therefore no longer hopes to be delivered in time for Wimbledon, his favorite tournament, at the end of June. The winner of twenty Grand Slam tournaments has not played since his defeat in the quarter-finals of the British Grand Slam last July against the Pole Hubert Hurkacz.

Suffering from a knee for two years and operated on several times, the Swiss only played thirteen games in 2021 and six in 2020. He is in 27th place in the world rankings.