Final farewell?: Roger Federer waves to fans as he walks across the players bridge after losing in the Wimbledon quarter-finals last month.
PARIS: Roger Federer turns 40 on Sunday with his storied career, which has yielded 20 Grand Slams, a multi-million-dollar fortune and an army of fans who treat the Swiss star with saintly reverence, at a crossroads.
Federer has only played 13 matches in 2021 and managed just six in the pandemic-hit 2020 campaign when he underwent two knee surgeries.
He withdrew from this year’s French Open after reaching the fourth round and was knocked out in the quarter-finals of Wimbledon, a tame 6-3, 7-6 (7/4), 6-0 loss to Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz.
That defeat was only Federer’s 14th at the All England Club in 119 matches, and the first time he had been beaten in the tournament in…
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