Roger Federer undergoes knee surgery, set to miss tournaments up to French Open this season

Tennis legend Roger Federer announced on Thursday that he has undergone a knee surgery and will be out of action till the end of the French Open in June.

The 38-year-old took to Twitter to put out a statement on Thursday, talking about why he decided to go ahead and have a surgery. Federer has undergone another knee surgery is early 2016, which was also an Olympic year.

“My right knee has been bothering me for a little while,” he wrote. “I hoped it would go away, but after an examination, and discussion with my team, I decided to have arthroscopic surgery in Switzerland yesterday.