Federer

Three knee surgeries have prevented him from making a full-blown comeback on the ATP Tour, and so the 41-year-old has decided to retire after the Laver Cup and ...

I think it’s a perfect moment for me to then spend time with [wife] Mirka.” So I still have to think about it a little bit but give myself time.” “I have been around the game for too long, have fallen in love with too many things. “I talked about Bjorn Borg, I don’t think he returned to Wimbledon for 25 years. Now what it could be, in what capacity, I don’t know. Commentary stints are possible, so too exhibitions, but for now that is a distant thought, although he was keen to stress that he will not disappear entirely. I sort of ignored it for a little bit, because I went on vacation and just said, ‘Okay, this is it’. I was not willing to go into the direction of let’s risk it all. Then on vacation, funnily enough, I didn’t speak to anybody about it other than my team, my parents, Mirka. “This moment came shortly after I was at Wimbledon where I still truly actually believed there was going to be a chance for me to come back the next year. Then I also got a scan back which wasn’t what I wanted it to be. So obviously I knew any hiccup was going to be the one potentially,” he added.