Roger Federer (Picture Credit score: Twitter)
Roger Federer who will flip 40 in August this 12 months reached the final 16 after a 3 hour thirty 5 minutes battler with Dominik Koepfer.
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- Final Up to date:June 06, 2021, 08:29 IST
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Roger Federer is contemplating withdrawing from the French Open regardless of reaching the final 16 after a tense four-set victory over Dominik Koepfer in a tie which completed simply earlier than 12:45 on Sunday morning.
“I don’t know if I’m going to play,” stated Federer, who’s simply two months shy of his 40th birthday and is because of play Italy’s Matteo Berrettini in Monday’s fourth spherical.
“I’ve to determine whether or not or to not proceed enjoying. Is it too dangerous to maintain placing stress on the knee? Is it a superb time to relaxation?”
The 20-time Grand Slam title winner, who underwent two knee surgical procedures in 2020, and is enjoying solely his third event since final 12 months’s Australian Open, has all the time stated Wimbledon is his precedence this 12 months.
He’s chasing a ninth title at Wimbledon which begins on June 28.
He’s additionally scheduled to play the warm-up grass courtroom event in Halle starting on June 14, the day after the French Open ends.
“Each match I’ve to reassess the state of affairs and see the following morning in what state I get up and the way my knee is doing,” added Federer after being on courtroom for three hours and 35 minutes.
“It could be much more true after a match so long as the one tonight.”
Saturday’s match, which spilled over into Sunday, was performed in an eerily-empty Courtroom Philippe Chatrier devoid of followers on account of a government-imposed Covid-19 curfew.
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