Roger Federer announced on Thursday that he was ending his professional career and that the Laver Cup next week will be his last ATP tournament which is caused reactions numerous tennis players and athletes who were joined by Lionel Messi.
“A genius, unique in the history of tennis and an example for every athlete.” All the best in your new phase, we will miss watching you on the field and enjoying it,” Messi said on social networks.
A member of the “Big Three” of tennis, along with Rafal Nadal and Novak Djokovic, he has not played since last year’s Wimbledon, and he has behind him a rich collection of victories with which he wrote the history of tennis.
With 20 Grand Slam titles won, he is third on the list of champions, Djokovic is second with 21, and Nadal is first with 22 trophies.
Roger Federer also won 103 ATP singles titles, which is second in the Open era, and during his career he achieved 1,251 victories and suffered 275 defeats, with a success rate of 82 percent.
He won the silver Olympic medal in London in 2012 and the gold medal in doubles four years earlier in Beijing. Federer was number one on the ATP list for 310 weeks, including 237 consecutive weeks.
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