Operated mid-February on the right knee, Roger Federer has not yet found the courts due to confinement following the coronavirus epidemic. On a video he published on social networks earlier this week, we see the Swiss hitting a few balls on his training wall despite the cold and snow.
Making sure I still remember how to hit trick shots # TennisAtHomepic.twitter.com / DKDKQTaluY
- Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) March 30, 2020Forehand, backhand, tweener, racket in the back ... What is certain is that Roger has not lost his technique and that his knee seems to be better. “Roger's rehabilitation is going very well and I hope to be back on the court with him soon. Roger is my first, second and third priority, I am at his disposal 52 weeks a year and it will remain like that as long as he intends to play, "confided his trainer Ivan Ljubicic to the Swiss media at the beginning of March .
Tennis suspended until June 7
ATP and WTA have decided that no official tournament will be held until June 7, due to the coronavirus epidemic. Thus, the whole clay court season was canceled (Rome, Munich, Estoril, Geneva, Lyon, Strasbourg and Rabat), and the organizers of Roland-Garros decided to postpone the tournament in September. In addition, the ATP and WTA rankings are frozen until the competition resumes.
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