One of the greatest tennis players of all time, Roger Federer has announced his plans to retire from professional tennis.
The Swiss released an official statement on Thursday to announce that he will retire from top-level tennis after the Laver Cup in London later this month.
The 20-time Grand Slam champion has not played since Wimbledon 2021, after which he had a third knee operation.
Federer has struggled with a knee problem for the past three years that has restricted him to only three of the 11 Grand Slams staged since the start of 2020.
He has not played any competitive match since losing to Hubert Hurkacz in the quarter-finals at Wimbledon last summer.
He subsequently announced he needed more surgery on his knee having previously had two operations in 2020.
Only Spain’s Rafael Nadal, with 22 majors, and Serbia’s Novak Djokovic, with 21, have more men’s Grand Slam singles titles than Federer.