The legendary Swiss tennis player Roger Federer will miss the remainder of the Olympic season.
The decision on early completion of the season Federer was accepted in connection with necessity of rehabilitation procedures on the operated at the knee. Ex-first racket of the world due to injury will miss the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, and will not play in US Open and other major tournaments, the final part of the season.
“I am extremely disappointed to announce that I will not be able to represent Switzerland at the Olympic games in Rio and will miss the rest of the season..
I’m motivated as ever and plan to focus all my energy on the return of a strong, healthy and in good shape to play attacking tennis in 2017,” wrote Federer in “Facebook”.
Roger Federer became the fourth representative of the Top 10 of the ATP rankings, refused to participate in the Olympic games. Due to a virus zika tournament in Rio de Janeiro decided to ignore Milos Raonic (Canada), Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) and Dominique Tim (Austria).
We will remind, the 31st summer Olympiad will be held in Rio de Janeiro from the fifth until August 21. Two weeks in Brazil, their owners will find 306 sets of medals in 28 sports.
