Roger Federer: ‘If I will keep feeling like this, I will not play Roland Garros’

Roger Federer lost 7/6 6/4 to Dominic Thiem, but for the Swiss and for many people, considering his physical condition, the result was the last thing to think about. Federer too confirmed this in his press conference, ‘It doesn’t matter how I played. Important is that I didn’t have any setbacks and I was able to step on the tennis court and that I tried what I could with what I had. It was not really a tactical match for me, to be honest.’

About his chances of playing the French Open, he said, ‘I’m a positive thinker and I believe that I’m going to recover well from Madrid and here now (and) that hopefully the next 10 days are going to be easier and I can practice really well sort of starting next week. I’m going to have a meeting with the team this afternoon, just talk about the options we have: Do we stay in Rome, do we go to Paris, do we go back to Switzerland? You know, these are three options there. Should I rest, should I train, what can I do with physiotherapy? All that stuff. Now I can, how do you say, pace myself. In a match you cannot really pace yourself. That’s …

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