Federer on his final career match
“Maybe I can play doubles with Rafa, that would be an absolute dream”
Roger Federer, a winner of 20 Grand Slam titles and one of the best players of all time, sparked a global outpouring of emotional reactions when he announced he would retire after this week’s Laver Cup.
Federer said Wednesday that he would close out his glittering tennis career with one final match of doubles on Friday at the Laver Cup in London, and he hinted he would like to do so in a pairing with his longtime friend and rival Rafael Nadal.
Federer announced his retirement last week in a video posted on his social media accounts, saying that his age (41) and his fitness had finally convinced him the “the time had come” to end a career in which he won 20 Grand Slam singles titles and more than 100 tournaments over all. Federer has not played a competitive match in 14 months, and he said this week that he had “stopped believing” he could rehabilitate his latest knee injury enough to continue at an elite level.
