Roger Federer Injury: Updates on Tennis Star’s Knee and Recovery

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Published: July 26, 2016

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Roger Federer announced Tuesday via his Facebook page he will miss the remainder of the tennis season—including the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the U.S. Open—to rehabilitate his knee: 



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Federer Still Recovering from Torn Meniscus  Tuesday, July 26 Federer had arthroscopic surgery on a torn meniscus in his left knee on Feb. 3, forcing him to miss tournaments in Rotterdam, Dubai and Indian Wells while he initially recovered. He suffered the injury running a bath for his daughters, as he described to ATPWorldTour.com before the Miami Open in March:

I remember I turned, I felt my knee was funny, I turned back. That's when I heard a click. I did feel that something was strange in my knee. Very simple movement, probably a movement I've done a million times in my life for sure. When I got the news that I had to have the operation I saw the pictures and talked to my doctor and knew that it was the only way out of this one. 

His knee issues resurfaced at Wimbledon, as Chris Fowler of ESPN noted:



Federer now joins a long list of top players that won't be participating in the Rio Games. Dominic Thiem, John Isner, Nick Kyrgios, Bernard Tomic, Feliciano Lopez and Kevin Anderson are all skipping the Games, per the CBC, though Andy Murray will be participating, and Rafael Nadal is confident he will be fit in time for the competition, per Nadeem Badshah of Sky Sports.

Federer won the silver medal in singles at the 2012 London Olympics and the gold in doubles at the 2008 Beijing Games.

But the injury also calls into question just how much the 34-year-old Federer has left to give going forward. He did reach the semifinals of both the Australian Open and Wimbledon this season, but he missed the French Open with back issues—the first Grand Slam...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Tennis

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