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Well he was lucky in the Cilic match. Cilic really should have closed it out in the third set and definitely in the fourth set, but choked. Then Federer himself choked against Raonic. Had he made it to the final, he would have had a chance against Murray. Can't really judge his year as he hasn't played that much due to the knee surgery. Knee surgery and wrist surgeries are two of the worst injuries in tennis. Some players don't recover from those that fast, if ever fully, even when they are younger, and Federer's 35 in two weeks. Knee injury at his age is tough. Only he knows how he's feeling. Unless it really worsened since Wimbledon, he should have tried to give it a go at the Olympics. Though you only have a couple weeks in between Rio and New York. So even if healthy, it would have been tough. He should have chosen one or the other, play Basel and the two other Masters in the Fall and then call it quits. Though he obviously knows his body and his mind better than us at the forums.
Red Rick said:He wasn't playing very well at Wimbly. Aussie open were some of the last very good matches he's played. In tough matches you can just see how far his ground game has detoriated. That comeback vs Cilic might just be the last huge match he'll ever win. He'll likely drop from #3 to about #16 before the end of the year. That means a lot tougher draws at the big tournies as well, which is a huge thing considering the quality of players he's been losing to.
I don't know to which end Federer believes he can still challenge for big titles, and to which degree he could be happy being far over your peak and basically just existing on Tour. It's not like he's a man for whom tennis is the only thing he has.
Well he was lucky in the Cilic match. Cilic really should have closed it out in the third set and definitely in the fourth set, but choked. Then Federer himself choked against Raonic. Had he made it to the final, he would have had a chance against Murray. Can't really judge his year as he hasn't played that much due to the knee surgery. Knee surgery and wrist surgeries are two of the worst injuries in tennis. Some players don't recover from those that fast, if ever fully, even when they are younger, and Federer's 35 in two weeks. Knee injury at his age is tough. Only he knows how he's feeling. Unless it really worsened since Wimbledon, he should have tried to give it a go at the Olympics. Though you only have a couple weeks in between Rio and New York. So even if healthy, it would have been tough. He should have chosen one or the other, play Basel and the two other Masters in the Fall and then call it quits. Though he obviously knows his body and his mind better than us at the forums.