Simon Graf: 'We know nothing about Roger Federer's retirement'

The 20-time Major champion Roger Federer hasn't played since the last year's Australian Open, struggling with a knee injury and undergoing two surgeries in February and May.

Roger is doing everything to recover and start all over from March, unable to recover in time for the season's first Major in Melbourne. Since December, Federer has been training in Dubai, testing his game and hoping to return injury-free and fight for the big titles again. On the other side, there are many stories and speculations about Roger's eventual retirement, with many predicting it will happen at some point in 2021.

Roger's biographer Simon Graf denies those stories, saying that no one knows anything about that yet, probably not even Federer, who is ready to give his everything and remain on the Tour for a year or two.

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"We don't know when Roger Federer will retire. I don't think Roger knows himself. I know he's far from where he would love to be right now. In terms of form, tennis-wise, only he knows the grip, go-back, get-back to the court when he feels he can play at a certain level. I don't think it's important where he steps away from the game. I interviewed him after he won the 2017 Australian Open.

I met him up in the mountains in Lenzerheide, where he has his second home. And he said: 'My career has been so corny, like, everything has been so amazing. I don't need a corny finish, or like, it doesn't matter how it will happen.' I don't think it's essential for him to where he steps away," Simon Graf said.

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"We don't know when Roger Federer will retire. I don't think Roger knows himself. I know he's far from where he would love to be right now. In terms of form, tennis-wise, only he knows the grip, go-back, get-back to the court when he feels he can play at a certain level. I don't think it's important where he steps away from the game. I interviewed him after he won the 2017 Australian Open.

I met him up in the mountains in Lenzerheide, where he has his second home. And he said: 'My career has been so corny, like, everything has been so amazing. I don't need a corny finish, or like, it doesn't matter how it will happen.' I don't think it's essential for him to where he steps away," Simon Graf said.