In a press conference at the Australian Open, commented on how getting older adds to the recovery time. The 37-year-old said: I think what happens with age maybe the most is that certain things take longer to recover from.
Lets just say, whereas in the past, I dont want to say 27, because 27 youre already like 15 years or 10 years into your career, but when youre, like, young, lets just say you have, I dont know, a pain in lets just say the elbow, sort of next day you can play with it, two days later its like you never had it.
All of a sudden at maybe 30, 35, 40, depending on who you are, what problems youve had, you will just feel it for two weeks. You can still play, but now youre playing with pain. It just takes longer to get rid of.
Again, everybody is very different. Everybody takes the pain differently. I think then thats also where you have to be very wise what kind of schedule youre playing with, what problem youre dealing with. Federer also talked about the differences in each players physique contributing to their recovery time.
He said, I think everybody is a bit different, you know, how they react to recovery or how they react to a hard match. Probably every player has some sort of weak spot in their body. For some its the foot. For some its the hip.
For some its the knee. For some its the back. For some its the elbow. For some its the shoulder. Whatever it may be, thats then their ongoing problem probably for a long period of time. Once you have that, that part of the body probably takes the longest time to heal or recover.
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