 What's going on everybody welcome back to a breaking news story and Roger Federer has confirmed what events he's gonna be playing before the French open Yes, he is playing the French open this year, but he's not playing the events that you would probably expect from a top 10 guy Let's go look at his tweet so over on Twitter Federer came out and said hi everyone Happy to let you know that I will play Geneva and Paris until then I will use the time to train can't wait to play in Switzerland again, so let's go have a look at the tournaments that Federer is playing and the ones that he is not playing Over the clay court season so he's already put out of Monte Carlo didn't play that tournament last week He's pulled out of Madrid which is happening in a couple of weeks also put out of Rome Which happens straight after Madrid, but he's gonna play in Geneva Which is happening the week after Rome so he isn't gonna play any of those tournaments that all the big guys are gonna play Then he's gonna play Geneva have a week off And then he's gonna be playing the French open and of course he's gonna go play Wimbledon straight after that So that is probably why he's not gonna play an extended clay court season There it is confirmation that he's gonna be playing in the Geneva open Which is an ATP 250 event instead of playing in the Masters 1000 events in Rome and Madrid Very interesting to see that he's going for this sort of strategy that he rather play in his home country in a smaller event Probably be the favorite to win that event you would expect but it's very interesting because all the big guns Rafa Djokovic city pass it's very have Medvedev They're all gonna be playing in Rome and Madrid before the French open but Federer is going down a different road So let me know down in the comments below. What do you expect from Federer during this clay court season? So Roger Federer who'll be back on the clay in Geneva