Six-time Australian Open champion Roger Federer will return to the land down beneath in January, participating in a brand new exhibition in Melbourne.
The “Battle of the World No.1s” will probably be part of the match’s inaugural opening ceremony, the day earlier than principal draw play kicks off. Former top-ranked icons Andre Agassi, Patrick Rafter and Lleyton Hewitt are pencilled in to hitch the 2026 Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame inductee inside Rod Laver Enviornment for a extremely anticipated night time of tennis.
“I’ve been pondering it’s actually chilly right here in Switzerland. I have to make a visit once more and head again,“ Federer revealed on Instagram earlier than rotating his video to finish the sentence with, “Down Below.”
“It appears like a lifetime in the past that I coined the phrase the ‘Blissful Slam’ for the Australian Open, and it nonetheless makes me smile after I take into consideration all of the moments I’ve had right here” Federer mentioned in a press release posted on the Australian Open’s web site.
“I’ve skilled so many feelings on Rod Laver Enviornment … the enjoyment of lifting ‘Norman’ six instances, the honour of taking part in in entrance of Rod Laver himself, the problem of competing in opposition to my largest rivals, and all the time the overwhelming love and help of the Australian followers.”
Federer, now 44, famously captured his nineteenth and twentieth main titles on the match in 2017 and 2018, at 35 and 36 years of age.
