The sentence was dropped after battling for more than three and a half hours to qualify.
“I don't know if I'm going to play” in the round of 16 at Roland Garros against Matteo Berrettini, said Roger Federer during the night from Saturday to Sunday.
“I have to decide whether to continue playing or not.
Isn't it too risky to keep shooting (on the knee), isn't it a good time to rest?
“, He asked at a press conference, referring to the Halle tournament which begins on June 14 and will launch its season on grass.
"In each match, I have to reassess the situation"
Returning to competition in March, after two right knee operations in 2020, the Swiss who will celebrate his 40th birthday in August has made Wimbledon his priority objective.
“With each game, I have to reassess the situation and see the next morning in what state I wake up and how my knee is.
It is perhaps even more true after a match as long as that of today ”, specified the ex-N.1 world today 8th.
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Roger Federer, who has played his first Grand Slam in sixteen months, qualified for the knockout stages after a standoff of more than three and a half hours with the German Dominik Koepfer (59th), beaten 7- 6 (7/5), 6-7 (3/7), 7-6 (7/4), 7-5, in the camera of the Parisian night on Sunday.
The Swiss with twenty Grand Slam trophies, who had never played a game behind closed doors, will surely remember this first so much Koepfer gave him a hard time.