Roger Federer: 'If you ignore your weaknesses, you will be punished'

The clock is ticking for 38-year-old Roger Federer. Despite his status as Grand Slam master, ATP prince with over 100 titles (still behind Jimmy Connors), member of the prestigious Big Three and alternatively Big Four, current World No. 3 and former World No. 1 (also widely known as the GOAT), the tennis legend has managed to defy age's implicit rules this far.

But while a big part of his fans surely do their best to live in denial, the Swiss’ career is getting closer to its conclusion than it is to its start.

Does Federer himself try to run away from this thought while he is still on the tour?

“I don't want to chase it away,” Federer earnestly told the Tribune de Geneve. “This thought is part of the process, of my present life. It is real. It also has the function of arousing other feelings. Thanks to it, I feel, for example, gratitude for everything I have experienced. It also motivates me, pushes me to imagine how to save myself or reinvent myself to stay even longer on the circuit. And then it’s good for me to move on with my fears. A tennis player must know his strengths and weaknesses. If you ignore your weaknesses, if you take yourself for the best, you will be punished. It’s very important to develop a healthy self-confidence. Confidence is based on good self-knowledge. As a player and as a person. Weaknesses are part of the picture.

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