Roger Federer of Switzerland celebrates after defeating Damir Dzumhur of Bosnia within the singles first spherical match on the All England Garden Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Tuesday June 30, 2015. Tim Eire, Related Press
Lower than one month after Serena Williams performed what's going to probably be her ultimate skilled tennis match on the U.S. Open, the tennis world is shedding one other star.
Roger Federer, a 20-time grand slam winner who dominated the boys’s tour for a lot of the previous twenty years, introduced Thursday that the Laver Cup, going down in London subsequent week, will probably be his ultimate ATP tour occasion.
“Tennis has handled me extra generously than I ever would have dreamt, and now I need to acknowledge when it's time to finish my aggressive profession,” he mentioned in a letter shared on Twitter.
To my tennis household and past,
— Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) September 15, 2022
With Love,
Roger pic.twitter.com/1UISwK1NIN
Federer, who's Swiss, acknowledged within the letter that he’s spent a lot of the previous three years working his method again from accidents, and mentioned that he has been unable to return to “full aggressive kind.”
“I additionally know my physique’s capacities and limits, and its message to me these days has been clear. I'm 41 years outdated. I've performed greater than 1500 matches over 24 years,” he wrote.
He continued, “This can be a bittersweet resolution, as a result of I'll miss the whole lot the tour has given me. However on the similar time, there may be a lot to have fun. I think about myself one of the vital lucky folks on Earth. I used to be given a particular expertise to play tennis, and I did it at a degree that I by no means imagined, for for much longer than I ever thought potential.”
Federer went on to thank his household, his present and former coaches, his staff, his sponsors his opponents, his followers and the sport of tennis.
“The final 24 years on tour have been an unimaginable journey. Whereas it generally feels prefer it glided by in 24 hours, it has additionally been so deep and magical that it appears as if I’ve already lived a full lifetime. I've had the immense fortune to play in entrance of you in over 40 completely different nations. I've laughed and cried, felt pleasure and ache, and most of all I've felt extremely alive,” he wrote.