Roger Federer has been forced to pull out of next week's Dubai Tennis Championship due to a chest infection.
Roger Federer has been forced to pull out of next week's Dubai Tennis Championship due to a chest infection.
Federer was due to play in the Barclays-sponsored event, which gets underway on Monday, but he has failed to recover from an infection he picked up last week.
The world number one will rest for two weeks before his expected return to action at the BNP Paribas Open, an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament in Indian Wells, in March.
Five of the World’s Top 10, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Nikolay Davydenko, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Marin Cilic, are competing at The Aviation Club in Dubai this week.