The one that lost to Novak Djokovic in the semifinals of the Australian Open in January; Roger Federer has not been seen on the tennis court since then. The US Open, the French Open, the ATP tennis tournament is going on here and there, but Federer is sitting at home. Swiss tennis legend that knee injury! After overcoming the stress of two surgeries, he has returned to practice these days.
The impact of the long break on his 39-year-old body, his tennis, will be felt when Federer returns to the court. However, the push is right in Federer's tennis rankings.
He has not been at the top of the rankings for a long time, at this age it is wrong to expect to see Federer at the top after fighting Djokovic-Nadal. Federer has been at the top of the rankings for two or three years, or a couple of years. But Danil Medvedev is going to remove him from number four in the rankings to be published next Monday.
Russia's Medvedev has confirmed that he will overtake Federer after beating Argentina's Diego Schwartzman 6-3, 6-1 in the quarter-finals of the Paris Masters. Federer is not in the top four of the rankings after 1 year and 6 months. He is having such an experience after 800 days.
Federer was last out of the top four in the rankings published on March 17 last year. And this is the first time since 2016 that Federer has the experience to finish the season out of the top four.
But not only is Alexander Zverev, who is in seventh place, now threatening to drop Federer to six. Zverev also advanced to the semifinals of the Paris Masters after losing to Stanislas Vavrinka yesterday. The 23-year-old German will play Rafael Nadal in the semifinals today. After the tournament, Zverev will also play at the Otu Arena in London on November 15-22. There is a chance to get more points and overtake Sittipas in front of him, Federer can also go to the top.
If the fall in Federer's rankings is bad news for tennis-fans, then next Monday's ranking will bring a message of joy for Novak Djokovic's fans. The Serbian tennis star is going to end the year from the top of the rankings, in which he is also going to touch a record.
After 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016, the ‘Joker’ is going to end the year from the top of the ranking six times with 2020 — a feat that Federer-Nadal does not have. Earlier, Djokovic's childhood hero Pete Sampras was the only one to finish six years in boys' tennis from the top of the rankings. Federer and Nadal have finished the year five times.
This is the news of ending the year from the top of the rankings. Djokovic is also a threat to Federer when the reckoning takes place this week. Federer holds the record for most consecutive weeks at the top of the rankings, but the record of 310 consecutive weeks at the top of the rankings is now tight. Djokovic will surpass Federer's record if he stays at the top of the rankings until March 6.
However, Federer is still unique in terms of the record of being in the top twenty in the rankings. With this, Federer is in the top twenty of the 1000 week rankings, a record that no one else has in boys' tennis. Federer has 132 more weeks in the first 20 of the rankings than Andre Agassi, who is in the top two. And if you calculate to be in the top ten, 1000 weeks is in the top ten and Federer has 61 weeks left.
Will Federer play until then? Questions about his retirement arise regularly. But two days ago, the Swiss legend said, "I will not retire now. I also practiced last week, hoping to be on the court in early January. I still feel like I still have some tennis left in me. '
FedEx posted a picture on social media yesterday. He is practicing on a green and beautiful tennis court in Switzerland. In the caption, Federer writes, ‘Back to work!’ Record goal? The Australian Open is scheduled to start on January 18. Rafael Nadal broke Federer's record of 20 Grand Slams by winning the French Open a few days ago, Federer must have wanted to go a little further by winning the Australian Open.