Roger Federer will not participate in the Masters 1000 in Toronto and Cincinnati, as announced by the ATP, and this choice also leaves doubts about the presence of the Swiss number 9 in the world at the US Open starting on August 30th.
Federer, who turns 40 on Sunday, was knocked out in three sets in the quarter-finals at Wimbledon in July by Pole Hubert Hurkacz and then forfeited the Tokyo 2020 Olympic tournament due to a knee injury.
He has only participated in five tournaments this season, returning in March after undergoing two operations on his right knee following the 2020 Australian Open.
German Alexander Zverev, who just won Olympic gold in singles in Tokyo, will not be playing in Toronto either, and explained that he "needs to recover" after these "two intense weeks" in order to "be at his best" for the game. rest of the summer calendar in the United States. In Toronto there will not even be Matteo Berrettini, the Canadian Milos Raonic and the Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta.