LONDON (UNITED KINGDOM), 3 Jul. (PA Media/dpa/ EP) –
Swiss tennis player Roger Federer will be honored this Tuesday on the center court of Wimbledon, at the All England Club in London (United Kingdom), a venue that he will visit to commemorate and celebrate his greatest triumphs on London grass.
“I am pleased to say that Roger will be with us tomorrow and that we will have a special moment of celebration on Center Court before the start of the matches to honor him as the man who has won the most men’s singles titles here at Wimbledon,” announced the Executive Director. of the tournament, Sally Bolton.
Federer is the tennis player who has won Wimbledon the most times (8) and his last match in the East ‘Grand Slam’ was in 2021, before announcing his retirement in September last year, when his appearances were already very irregular.
The Swiss, who already received a similar tribute on the grass in Halle (Germany) last month, will feel the support of the main track of his fetish tournament starting at 2:15 p.m., when he will celebrate “his achievements”. “We will thank you for all the memories of her,” Bolton added, revealing that American Serena Williams had also been invited to star in a similar event, but she was unable to travel.
“We invited Serena in a similar way this year, but as you know she is pregnant and understandably unable to travel. We of course wish her the best of luck with the rest of her pregnancy and hope to see her next year,” Bolton concluded. .