Swiss tennis maestro Roger Federer on Thursday introduced that he can be retiring from skilled sport after the upcoming Laver Cup. Ever since his announcement, tributes have been pouring in on social media. Federer’s long-time rival Andre Agassi additionally took to Twitter to pay his tribute, saying: “Your sport and spirit taught us how lovely tennis might be performed, @RogerFederer. Each second you shared has left us all higher off. Thanks, RF.”

To this tweet, Federer replied: “Means so much Andre, cherished our matches and miss you.”

Means so much Andre, cherished our matches and miss you https://t.co/tvoloGOs7I

— Roger Federer (@rogerfederer) September 16, 2022

Federer and Andre Agassi performed towards one another 11 occasions, and Federer leads their head-to-head 8–3. Federer and Agassi had first met in solely the third match of Federer’s profession on the 1998 Swiss Indoors.

Agassi additionally defeated Federer on the 2001 US Open and the finals of the Miami Masters in 2002.

The duo had performed a memorable quarterfinal match on the 2004 US Open that spanned over two days, with Federer ultimately prevailing in 5 units. In addition they performed within the finals of 2005 US Open. Federer was victorious in 4 units, claiming the sixth Grand Slam match of his profession.

Federer, the primary males’s participant to win 20 grand slam titles, introduced his resolution to retire from the game after Laver Cup 2022. Federer knowledgeable of his resolution with a publish on his Twitter deal with. Federer gained his first grand slam within the yr 2003 when he gained the Wimbledon title. He has since gone on to win 6 Australian Open, 1 French Open, 8 Wimbledon and 5 US Open titles. He has been fighting a knee harm for a very long time.

“The Laver Cup subsequent week in London can be my last ATP occasion,” he mentioned in an announcement posted on his Twitter account.

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The 41-year-old winner of 20 Grand Slam titles has been out of motion since a quarter-final loss at Wimbledon in 2021 earlier than present process one other bout of knee surgical procedure.

Federer’s announcement comes on the heels of the retirement of Serena Williams. Serena retired with the second most grand slam titles to her identify within the girls’s sport (23).