Peter Lundgren He shared with his followers the sad news about his condition and after spending several weeks hospitalized, the doctors They decided to amputate his leg and part of his left leg after an infection that complicated his health. The player from Sweden who knows how to accompany Roger Federer for many years is starting to recover.

“I thought I would give an update on my leg, unfortunately my leg and upper body had to be amputated 10 days ago and because of the infection I suffered and my ankle was broken which doesn’t get better because of my type 2 diabetes, because my circulation is bad. But now I am healthy again and my rehabilitation will start soon and just give it some iron now,” he wrote on Sunday on his Facebook account, sharing a picture of his lower extremities, lying on a stretcher.

Lundgren, 58 years old, is a professional tennis player and in 1985 he reached 25th ATP ranking. As a professional he won three ATP Tour singles titles (Cologne, Rye Brook and San Francisco), but his fame came after retirement, when he started working with Roger Federer, in addition to being a coach for figures such as Marcelo Ríos, Marat Safin, Stan Wawrinka and Grigor Dimitrov.

With the Swiss, former world No. 1, he was between 2000 and 2003, at the beginning of the legend. “Roger is a very talented young man, maybe a little lazy, he has some concentration problems, as well as not being physically ready. Things started happening very quickly because he always wanted to be the best and saw that he had the potential to achieve it. Actually he was a difficult person to work with, but he had a big heart and was a good person, he grew very quickly into the great tennis ambassador he is today. “I am very proud of everything he has achieved,” he said in 2020 in a dialogue with Brazilian Tennis.

He was with her when she won her first Grand Slam, Wimbledon 2003. “That title was what everyone expected from her, in fact it was a relief,” he recalled in an interview about the title in England. So far there has been no public message from Federer regarding the amputation.