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Vreemd verhaal. Federer had een polsblessure in de periode Halle-US Open..?

Roger Federer blasted by experts for wrist injury confession

Roger Federer dealt with a wrist injury for three months from Stuttgart to the US Open, but the Swiss player only revealed it last week ahead of the Swiss Indoors in Basel. Federer kept playing despite the pain but did not deliver great performances over the last month.

Speaking on the Tennis Podcast, the expert Catherine Whitaker did not back Federer: 'A Swiss journalist has had some time with Roger Federer this week - they talked about all sorts of things. Federer told him that he had a hand injury, he injured his hand before Wimbledon and that was affecting him for a three-month period afterwards, including during the defeat to Kevin Anderson.

A lot of people are pointing out this isn't the first time that after the fact, Federer has said 'oh actually, I was a little bit injured'. Given how much time, rightly I believe, we spend singing Federer's praises because he's marvellous, should we just highlight the fact that technically it's all sort of against the sporting code?' During his press conferences, Federer never spoke about his wrist issues and he was saying that everything was okay.

'We want players to be honest but we rip them if they are not', David Law noted. 'He made quite a big thing of the fact he came into the US Open this year and this time he was fit and ready to go whereas last year he wasn't.

This is the first we've heard of it really. I’m not too keen on it but I have to say at the same time, it kind of would add up a bit. His forehand was all over the place. Against Kevin Anderson at Wimbledon and various other places, he couldn't put it into the court.

Rommelige zege voor Federer. The Fog zijn laatste game was symptomatisch met 2 gehaaste dubbele fouten op het eind.

Federer net niet goed genoeg helaas.