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Roger Federer who will flip 40 in August this yr reached the final 16 after a 3 hour thirty 5 minutes battler with Dominik Koepfer.
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- Last Updated:June 06, 2021, 08:52 IST
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Roger Federer is contemplating withdrawing from the French Open regardless of reaching the final 16 after a tense four-set victory over Dominik Koepfer in a tie which completed simply earlier than 12:45 on Sunday morning.
“I don’t know if I’m going to play,” said Federer, who is just two months shy of his 40th birthday and is due to play Italy’s Matteo Berrettini in Monday’s fourth round.
“I have to decide whether or not to continue playing. Is it too risky to keep putting pressure on the knee? Is it a good time to rest?”
The 20-time Grand Slam title winner, who underwent two knee surgical procedures in 2020, and is enjoying solely his third match since final yr’s Australian Open, has all the time mentioned Wimbledon is his precedence this yr.
He is chasing a ninth title at Wimbledon which begins on June 28.
He can be scheduled to play the warm-up grass courtroom match in Halle starting on June 14, the day after the French Open ends.
“Every match I’ve to reassess the scenario and see the subsequent morning in what state I get up and the way my knee is doing,” added Federer after being on court for 3 hours and 35 minutes.
“It may be even more true after a match as long as the one tonight.”
Saturday’s match, which spilled over into Sunday, was performed in an eerily-empty Court Philippe Chatrier devoid of followers attributable to a government-imposed Covid-19 curfew.
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