Federer says return date ‘uncertain’

Roger Federer has said the timing of his return to the courts was still uncertain, just weeks ahead of the US Open.

Federer, who has only played 13 matches in 2021, having been out for more than a year with two knee surgeries, pulled out of the Tokyo Olympics and subsequent tournaments to rest his knee.

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The US Open gets underway on August 30 but Federer did not say whether he would be taking part in the last of the year’s four majors.

“I’m fine. I was on holiday. I haven’t done anything for a while because of my knee. I had to stop everything after Wimbledon,” he told Blick newspaper.