Roger Federer has opened up on his life in retirement and has admitted he is still playing tennis two years after calling time on his career. The blockbuster star retired from the sport following the 2022 Laver Cup after winning 20 Grand Slam titles.
Federer is regarded as one of the greatest players to ever play the game and tantalised crowds for more than two decades after breaking through as a teenager in the late 1990s.
The 43-year-old ended his career with eight Wimbledon titles and six Australian Open titles, with the ace also triumphing at the US Open on five occasions as well as lifting one French Open trophy.
Federer is currently in Berlin ahead of this year’s Laver Cup, which is due to get underway on Friday.
And ahead of the contest between Team Europe and Team World, he told the Laver Cup’s official website: “I just told the guys here this court looks so ready to be played on – I wish I was them.
“I’m still playing some [tennis] – I’ve actually played quite a bit, especially since I launched the Wilson racket, the RF 01. I’m really enjoying hitting. I play with my family, I play with my friends, and it’s been good fun.”
Federer helped to create the Laver Cup, with the first edition of the tournament taking place in 2017.
And before this year’s event, the Swiss said: “I think that Team Europe is very strong this year – it’s stacked. Altitude is low which is in my mind going to make the best players win.
“I think we are – I always talk as we, because I’m Europe – in the singles matches, we are heavy favourites even though I know that Team World has great players right now that are red hot and playing super well. I still think most of the matches in singles are going to go Team Europe’s way and then the doubles, I feel like most are going to go Team World’s way.”
Federer, who is said to be worth over £400million, revealed he “missed everything” about tennis as he was interviewed by Jim Courier following his farewell match.
And discussing his retirement during an interview with El Pais in the summer, the former player explained: “Look, it’s an incredible feeling, as if you were at a kind of funeral of your own life.
“It’s a very strange feeling, to be honest. You’re completely alert and you experience a big slow-motion blur of everything that’s going on.”
