Roger Federer announced he’s done for the season and will miss the upcoming Rio Summer Olympics. The tennis player is extremely disappointed that he won’t be representing Switzerland in the next coming weeks.
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“Considering all options after consulting my doctors and my team, I have made the very difficult decision to call an end to my 2016 season as I need more extensive rehabilitation following my knee surgery earlier this year,” Federer wrote. “The doctors advised that if I want to play on the ATP World Tour injury free for another few years, as I intend to do, I must give both my knee and body the proper time to fully recover. It is tough to miss the rest of the year,” he said in a statement.
“However, the silver lining is that this experience has made me realize how lucky I have been throughout my career with very few injuries. The love I have for tennis, the competition, and tournaments and of course you, the fans remains intact. I am as motivated as ever and plan to put all my energy towards coming back strong, healthy and in shape to play attacking tennis in 2017.”
Back in March, the 34-year-old revealed that he had knee surgery due to an injury sustained while preparing a bath for his twin daughters. He had to undergo an arthroscopic surgery to repair a torn meniscus.
“I woke up, I don’t know exactly remember what happened. I think I was going to run a bath for the girls. I made a very simple movement, turned back, heard a click in my knee. I went to the zoo. My leg was swollen,” said Federer to the UK Telegraph. He came back and had an MRI done in Switzerland, then saw a doctor right after the MRI who told him he needed surgery.
These would have been his 5th Olympics. In 2008 he won 2 gold medals in Beijing and in 2012 he received a silver medal in the London Olympics.
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