Severin Lüthi on Roger Federer: "Rehabilitation is going according to plan"
Roger Federer's longtime coach, Severin Lüthi , commented on the fitness status of his protégé on Swiss television . After the involuntary second operation, Federer is now on the mend.
by Michael Rothschädl
last edit: Jul 05, 2020, 10:53 am
Roger Federer will not be returning to the ATP tour in 2020, that's a fact. The Swiss announced during the interruption of the tour due to COVID-19 that he would have to undergo a second operation after the recovery process after the first intervention had not gone as desired. "I will take the time to get 100% fit again," said the 20-time Grand Slam champion at the time on social networks.
Now there is again positive news from the Swiss environment, according to long-term coach Severin Lüthi, the "second" recovery process is now going much better than the first: "Roger is doing well. The rehabilitation went according to plan after the second operation. No great intensity "Until now, he will shortly start a physical fitness block with Pierre Paganini," Lüthi told the SRF.
"We are focusing on the next season"
So it will be pretty much a year in which there was no Roger Federer on the ATP tour, because the Swiss played its last tournament at the Australian Open in January, which will also open the 2021 tennis season to a certain extent. The Swiss had reached the semi-finals in Melbourne, but had some problems in his duels with John Milmann and Tennys Sandgren.
A few weeks after the Grand Slam in Down Under, the fourth in the world rankings shocked his fans when he announced that he wanted to undergo the same knee operation and had to take a correspondingly long break. At that time, the comeback date of the Swiss was still scheduled with the lawn tournaments in summer.
An appointment that, as is known, could not be kept. According to Lüthi, however, this is a necessary evil, because: "The top priority is that Roger is 100 percent healthy again. The nice thing is that with Roger you still feel like you are on the pitch with a young player and not with a player who is more at the end of his career - these are perfect conditions. We are concentrating on the next season. "