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- Roger Federer has been removed from the current month’s Toronto and Cincinnati Masters occasions with a knee injury – putting his US Open interest in question.
After being taken out of the Wimbledon quarter-finals, the 39-year-old missed the Tokyo Olympics due to a “difficulty to his knee” after being taken out of the Wimbledon quarter-finals. Federer, a 20-time Grand Slam champion, had a twofold knee medical procedure last year. The Toronto Masters begins on 9 August, Cincinnati is seven days after the fact, and the US Open starts on 30 August in New York.
Federer – who turns 40 on Sunday – has played 13 matches in 2021 get-togethers, six games in the pandemic-hit 2020 season. The Swiss won the remainder of his five US Opens in 2008, and his latest major was the 2018 Australian Open.
Novak Djokovic has asserted eight additional majors from that point forward, and Rafael Nadal has gotten four. As a result, every individual of the three extraordinary adversaries currently stands level on 20 Grand Slams. Federer, positioned 10th on the planet, has 103 vocation titles from his 23 years on a visit, with a joined 310 weeks at number one.
Tokyo men’s singles gold medallist Alexander Zverev will likewise avoid the competition in Toronto to get some additional rest. In the interim, Nadal, 35, was taken out of the Citi Open in Washington in the third round by South Africa’s Lloyd Harris – his rebound occasion following a two-month lay-off with a foot injury.