Roger Federer remains to be unsure whether or not he’ll compete on the Tokyo Olympics, saying Saturday that he and his group plan to “reassess the situation after Wimbledon.”
Speaking to reporters in a video convention from the All England Club earlier than the grass-court Grand Slam match begins Monday, Federer stated that how issues go over the approaching fortnight will have an effect on his plans for the subsequent couple of months.
“Obviously, if I play really good here or really bad, I think it has an impact on how everything might look for the summer,” he stated. “Still, my feeling is I would like to go to the Olympics. I would like to play as many tournaments as possible. But I think we decided now let’s just get through Wimbledon, sit down as a team, and then decide where we go from there.”
Wimbledon ends July 11. The Tokyo Games — which had been postponed a 12 months due to the coronavirus pandemic — are scheduled to open on July 23.
At least two high males’s tennis gamers won’t be at Wimbledon or in Japan: Rafael Nadal, who stated his physique must relaxation and get better, and Dominic Thiem, who not too long ago injured his proper wrist.
Federer, who shares the lads’s file of 20 Grand Slam titles with Nadal, has received two Olympic medals for Switzerland: a silver in singles on the 2012 London Games, which held the tennis competitors on the All England Club, and a gold in doubles with Stan Wawrinka on the 2008 Beijing Games.
Federer sat out the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics due to a left knee harm.
He missed most of final season whereas having two operations on his proper knee and heads into Wimbledon, the place he has received eight championships, having performed a complete of merely eight matches in 2021.
His fortieth birthday is approaching on Aug. 8, and Federer stated that modifications the calculus relating to determining a schedule, too.
“In previous years, it was definitely easier,” Federer stated. “At the moment, things are not as simple as in the past. With age, you have to be more selective. You can’t play it all.”