Roger Federer plans to play his first tennis tournament since January 2020 and two right knee surgeries at a lower-level ATP event in Doha in March.
“I wanted to make my comeback at a smaller tournament so that I wasn’t fully in focus and where the stress is also a little less,” according to a Tennis.com translation of a Federer video interview with SRF in Switzerland. “I want to celebrate great victories again. And for that I am ready to go the long, hard road.”
Federer, 39 and the male record holder with 20 Grand Slam singles titles, announced in December that he would miss the Australian Open as he builds back up from right knee surgeries last winter and spring.