'It took somebody extraordinary like Roger Federer to...', says top coach

Roger Federer was also protagonist in the last slam in which he participated (not only in Australia), last year in Melbourne. At 38 the Swiss canceled seven match points to be right in the quarter-finals of American Tenny Sandgren, bent 6-3, 2-6, 2-6, 7-6 (8) 6-3 after a marathon of three hours and a half. In the semifinal, in the 50th match against Novak Djokovic, Federer then had to give way to the Serbian number 1 in the world: after taking the lead in the first set, the Swiss was however defeated in three sets by 7-6, 6- 4, 6-3. The Swiss champion took the field despite an adductor injury in his right leg that clearly affected his movements. At almost 40 years old (he will turn them on August 8, 2021) Federer does not seem to want to give up as he ages and continues to announce his imminent return to the field despite having played a few games in 2020 because he had to undergo two knee operations . On November 6 she posted a photo and a message for her fans on social media, "Back to work". Roger Federer has thus announced that he has started working again to return to play, as he has already announced, in 2021. And he will do it in his way. In June, in fact, he had already explained what his schedule will be to return to the fields: "Now, just as I did until the 2017 season, I plan to take the time to get back to 100% ready to play my I will miss the fans and the circuit but I look forward to seeing you all again at the start of the 2021 season." While speaking on Alistair McCaw’s podcast, Ivan Ljubicic marveled at how Roger Federer broke new ground in tennis by surpassing Pete Sampras' record.

Ljubicic talks about Roger Federer

"So this I admire incredibly these athletes, (they) were able to do something that has never been done before," Ivan Ljubicic said. "This is something, it's like the inventors, you know, like Einstein. How do you think of something that nobody has thought about before?" Ljubicic went on to stress that Roger Federer, Messi and Ronaldo possess an incredible amount of self-belief, which helps them scale new heights consistently. "I mean, what does make them extraordinary?" Ljubicic said. "It has to be the mindset, you know. You have to be really believing that you can do something that has never been done before and you don't make a big fuss about it." Ljubicic also claimed that players like Roger Federer, Cristiano Ronaldo and Ivo Karlovic have set an example for posterity with their ageless achievements. "Again, now people see Ronaldos and Rogers and Karlovics of the world, and they see they're doing it," the Croat continued. "So they say - 'Okay, well, I can do that too.' You know, back in the day nobody played at 35, nobody! You would play senior tour at 35, yeah. So it took somebody extraordinary like Roger to kind of go through it and say, Okay, why not?"

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