With the weekly update, the Swiss will lose the 600 units he added at Wimbledon 2021 and his name will no longer have a slot in the world list of professional tennis players. Another dark chapter in the final half for the 20-time Grand Slam winner, who is still struggling to recover from his knee injury. Of course, he hopes to return to the circuit soon.
The ATP ranking begins to say goodbye to Roger Federer. This Monday July 11, with the weekly update and the delivery of all Wimbledon 2021 points, the Swiss star will no longer have a number that qualifies him within the planet . A milestone that highlights the darkest moment in the career of the winner of 20 major tournaments and the complexity of his physical recovery after a rebellious knee injury.
And it is that after a year without seeing him on a tennis court, the Swiss is out of balance in the ATP ranking. The 600 points he added at Wimbledon 2021 , where he fell in the quarter-finals, were the last accounting units he had left, so this Monday he will lose all his units. A blow to the records of Rog, who at 40 begins to live the last chapter of his history as a professional tennis player.
Currently ranked 97th in the world Federer could not recover from an injury he suffered in August 2021 and for which had to enter the operating room three times since it must be remembered that this same malaise had prevented him from playing the 2020 season, only managing to play the Australian Open that year, where he fell in the semi-finals against Novak Djokovic.
Since then, Roger’s schedule has changed drastically, spending more time recuperating than on the tennis court. In reality in the last two and a half years he has only played six tournaments . After the Oceania Grand Slam, he was erased from the whole of 2020 and only reappeared at the ATP 500 in Doha ten months later. Next are Geneva, Roland Garros, Halle and Wimbledon, which so far is the last competition he has played.
A balance sheet that counts today in figures. The mysterious injury (he never specified what he is suffering from) tormented him for a long time and now he will disappear from the rankings for a time. And it is that despite the stormy recovery period, Federer says he is ready for his return to the circuit. It was a few months ago, during an interview with a Swiss magazine, he announced it. “I am ready to give it my all again. I feel like a racehorse looking for its place again, wanting to run. I hope to play again this summer, I miss coming home in the evening after a hard day of training, being completely exhausted “, he commented on this occasion to the delight of his fans.
A return that already has confirmed dates. The Laver Cup and the ATP 500 in Basel two of the most emblematic tournaments of his career and which for this 2022 appear as the beginning of Roger’s last journey into professionalism.
The first will play September 23-25 in London , being one of the great legacies left by the former tennis world number one. Promoted by itself, since 2017 the event has brought together the best players on the planet in a team competition, which pits European tennis players against those from the rest of the world. For this edition, Federer will be accompanied by the already confirmed Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray , at the same time as various sources claim that Djokovic and Alcaraz could also be part of the Old Continent squad. On the Rest of the World side, the first tennis players listed are Taylor Fritz, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Diego Schwartzman.
However, the return to the courts of his country will take place in October when the winner of eight Wimbledons takes part in the ATP 500 in Basel. A news that was confirmed a few months ago and that paralyzed the world. “After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Swiss Indoors Basel will return to the ATP Tour in the fall of 2022. Ten-time singles champion and local hero Roger Federer has announced his return to the St. Jakobshalle stadium. The greatest Swiss of all time has confirmed that his initial program will include the Laver Cup in London followed by the Swiss Indoors in Basel. confirmed the event on this occasion.
This will be the first opportunity (so far) that Roger will have again to add points for the ranking, since the Laver Cup, although it is recognized by the ATP, still does not issue units for world ranking . Thus, as confirmed today, the ranking will not carry the name of Federer in the next three months. Shocking news, but it was coming. Time does not pass in vain and even Roger cannot help it. His return to tennis will be without a locker, but with the illusion of being upright again.
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