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

Roger Federer has been recovering from a torn meniscus that will keep him out for the remainder of the tennis season. It is uncertain when he will return to the court. 

Continue for updates.

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Federer Comments on Recovery

Monday, Aug. 22

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Federer Pulls Out of 2016 Olympics

Tuesday, July 26

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Federer Recovering from Surgery on Troublesome Knee

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:

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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. 

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

Federer is among a long list of top players who did not participate in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Dominic Thiem, John Isner, Nick Kyrgios, Bernard Tomic, Feliciano Lopez and Kevin Anderson all skipped the Games, per the CBC, though Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal both took part, winning gold in the men's singles and doubles events, respectively.

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 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 he hasn't taken part in since 1999—and he didn't win a tournament in 2016. 

When he returns next season, he'll have an uphill climb on his hands, as Carl Bialik of FiveThirtyEight pointed out:

A healthy Federer is still a threat. But Federer isn't getting any younger and hasn't won a Grand Slam event since Wimbledon 2012. Few players in the world are currently better than Federer, of course. But in the age of Novak Djokovic's dominance and Murray's continued ascension, Federer's time among the game's elite appears to be drawing to a close.

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