Roger Federer has withdrawn from the tournament in Dubai next week after a comeback in Doha. The 39-year-old Swiss tennis player returned to the ATP Tour in Qatar after 13 months and two knee surgeries and was eliminated in the quarterfinals with the Georgian Nikolaos Basilashvili.
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Roger Federer greets fans.
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“It was great to be back on the ATP Tour, I enjoyed every minute in Doha. I decided it would be best to go back to training, so I checked out of Dubai,” Federer said on social media a few hours after a three-hundredth defeat with Basilashvili. . On Wednesday, in the first match, after a long break, the 20-time Grand Slam winner, Daniel Evans, defeated.
Federer has been doing well in Dubai for a long time. He won the tournament eight times and in 2019 won his jubilee 100th title on the circuit. His longtime rival Rafael Nadal from Spain will not start in Dubai due to a sore back.
Federer was nervous before returning and forgot some rules
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Federer is facing a tournament break due to withdrawing from Dubai, as he has previously decided not to defend the 2019 title in Miami at the turn of March and April.
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