Roger Federer, a 20-time Grand Slam singles champion, will retire from top-level tennis after the Laver Cup in London later this month.
Swiss Federer, 41, has not performed since Wimbledon 2021, after which he had a 3rd knee operation.
“My physique’s message to me currently has been clear,” Federer mentioned.
“I’ve performed greater than 1,500 matches over 24 years. Now I have to recognise when it’s time to finish my aggressive profession.”
He added: “To the sport of tennis, I like you and can by no means depart you.”
Federer has struggled with a knee drawback for the previous three years that has restricted him to solely three of the 11 Grand Slams staged because the begin of 2020.
He has not performed a aggressive match since dropping to Hubert Hurkacz within the quarter-finals at Wimbledon final summer time.
He subsequently introduced he wanted extra surgical procedure on his knee having beforehand had two operations in 2020.
Solely Spain’s Rafael Nadal, with 22 majors, and Serbia’s Novak Djokovic, with 21, have extra males’s Grand Slam singles titles than Federer.
Federer made his skilled debut aged 16 in 1998 and gained his first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon in 2003.
He ends his profession with a document whole of eight males’s singles victories on the All England Membership.
Federer’s remaining Grand Slam triumph got here on the 2018 Australian Open when, aged 36, he turned the second-oldest man to win a significant singles title within the Open period.
After rising to world primary for the primary time in 2004, he spent 310 weeks because the main participant on the ATP Tour throughout his profession – a document till he was surpassed by Djokovic in February 2021.
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