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Roger Federer will not return to the tour until the end of February. Why it makes sense that in his current form he should focus on Wimbledon rather than Melbourne.
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Did Roger Federer say goodbye to the Australian Open for the last time in January 2020?
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Roger Federer has the gift of adding a ray of hope to bad news. When he gave the pass for the rest of the season after Wimbledon 2016, he linked this to the message that this break would allow him to continue playing for a few more years without injury. A promise he kept: in 2017 and 2018 he returned to his great form and won three more Grand Slam tournaments.
When, in February 2020, after his return from the “Party in Africa” in Cape Town, he surprised everyone with the message that he had now had surgery on his right knee, he also said: “I can do it. barely wait back. I … isin front of you on the lawn! “Due to the corona pandemic, the turf season was canceled, but Federer would not have been able to play anyway, as in June meit was necessary in a second operation on the right knee.
