For the last ATP event, Federer arrived in London to prepare for the Laval Cup.
Beijing, September 19 (Xinhua) according to media reports, Swiss king Federer, who announced that he would retire after the Laval Cup this week, has arrived in London to fully prepare for the last ATP event in his career.
On the evening of 15th Beijing time, 41-year-old Federer announced his retirement on his personal social platform. The Laval Cup will be his last ATP (Professional Tennis Federation) event.
Federer was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1981. In the men’s singles final of Wimbledon in 2003, the 22-year-old Federer won the first Grand Slam singles championship in his career. After Australian Open won the championship in 2004, Federer ascended the world’s first throne, which lasted for four years.
According to statistics, Federer’s 20 Grand Slam champions include 8 Wimbledon, 6 Australian Open, 5 beautiful grenadine and 1 French Open, which is the first to win 20 Grand Slam champions, and the only man who won the championship at least five times in three Grand Slam. He was the first in the world of men’s singles for a total of 310 weeks.
After Wimbledon in 2012, Federer faced the Grand Slam famine for nearly five years, which made countless people think that he had stepped down from the altar and no longer had the edge of that year.
But when he was close to 36 years old, he snatched the champion of Australian Open from Nadal, and won two Grand Slam trophy in the season and found himself again.
However, in recent years, Federer has been suffering from injuries. In 2020, after losing to Djokovic in the semi-finals of the Australian Open, Federer underwent knee surgery and was absent for a long time.
He originally planned to return to the grassland season in June 202020, but affected by the epidemic, Federer’s return plan was not implemented, and he announced in advance that the 2020 season was over, after that, his knee underwent a second operation.
After the return of the 2021 season, Federer’s status is far from the peak. In the season Wimbledon men’s singles 1/4 final, Federer, as the No. 6 seed of the competition, was eliminated by No. 14 seed Huer Kagi, and his career stopped for the fourth time in Wimbledon men’s singles 8.
Then, Federer also announced his withdrawal from the Tokyo Olympics due to injuries. In August, Federer announced that he would undergo knee surgery again, which was only five months after his last recovery. On July this year, Federer ATP ranking points were cleared. (Finished)