Another knee surgery forces 20-time major champion Roger Federer to rule out a return to tennis in 2020, but the rest of the season is up in the air due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Roger Federer will miss the rest of the 2020 tennis season after undergoing a second knee surgery a few weeks ago, but the 38-year-old wants fans to know this will not be the end of his career.The last time Federer played competitively was at the Australian Open, where he was hampered by injuryThe winner of 20 major singles titles struggled with injury at the 2020 Australian Open, where he made a semi-final exit to eventual champion Novak Djokovic, and has not played competitively since.
"I will be missing my fans and the tour dearly, but I will look forward to see everyone back on tour at the start of the 2021 season." The second major of the year, the French Open was supposed to have just finished, but was instead shifted to September 20 by the French Tennis Federation .The FFT's announcement reportedly came without consultation with other major stakeholders, which include the International Tennis Federation, the Association of Tennis Professionals governing the men's game and the Women's Tennis Association, as well as the national federations responsible for Wimbledon and the US Open.
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