Back on the lawns of south-west London, Federer, who hasn’t won a title in his chair pads for sale six tournaments in 2016, is desperately hoping to emerge from his struggles and emulate his run to Wimbledon final 12 months ago. I don’t want to say ‘start from zero’, but just reset from there and make another push for Wimble-don. Federer, tied with Pete Sampras on seven Wimbledon men’s singles titles, is preparing to make his 18th successive appearance at the grass-court Grand Slam, but there is now a genuine sense of vulnerability about the 34-year-old as the ravages of time take their toll on his body."I just had to stop everything by not playing Paris, reset basically, essentially. I got into a tough spell there. His semi-final loss to Germany’s Alexander Zverev in Halle was his first defeat to a teenager in 10 years.For the first time in 15 years, Federer arrives at the All England Club with few pundits expecting the world number three to leave with the trophy after one of the most troubled seasons of his glittering career.

Federer, who faces Argentine Guido Pella in the Wimbledon first round next week, is trying to stay positive, saying: "Look, this back has won me 88 titles, so I’m okay with that.From the moment he suffered a torn meniscus in his left knee while turning awkwardly to run a bath for his children shortly after the Australian Open in January, this has been a year to forget for Federer.The 17-time Grand Slam champion had surgery on the knee in February but, when he recovered from that, a back problem kept him out of the recent French Open, which ended his record run of 65 consecutive appearances in Grand Slam tournaments.”Federer played grass-court events in Stuttgart and Halle earlier this month in a bid to prove his fitness, but although he was happy with how his body responded, the results were a further dent to his morale.”.Roger Federer admits Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray are clear favourites for the Wimbledon title as the Swiss star tries to salvage an injury-plagued year by winning his favourite tournament for a record eighth time."I was very, very sad, just because I thought I was going to be lucky not having to do surgery in my career,” Federer told reporters on Saturday."I just got really disappointed about it because that’s when I really understood what the road was going to look like. "I felt like I got unlucky throughout the process with hurting my back again before Madrid, getting sick in Miami

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The main reason being stated by the doctors for the postponement is the prevalence of winter ailments, which the infants are prone to.With minimum temperature dropping to 12 degrees Celsius this week, newborn infants requiring surgery have been worst hit. Dr Gerkar also added that the postoperative care becomes difficult on a newly operated baby as contracting winter ailments could deteriorate their health. We had to be very cautious while operating him as his lungs were affected which might have disturbed his heart,” he added. "Warm the baby’s bed with hot water bag or heating pad, always keep them fully covered with socks, mittens, caps and sweaters, put them in blankets always, keep them moisturised, bath them in warm water and keep on giving them hot water,” said Dr Avasthi, listing out safety tips..

The cases in which operation could not be averted were difficult as we had to take care of the baby’s winter ailments also which had weakened them,” said Dr Avasthi. Dr Bhupendra Avasthi, paediatrician from Surya Health care, Santa Cruz, also said that the cases, which are in need of urgent surgery, were getting difficult. "For a three-month and five-month old baby, winter is a tough time. Paediatric cardio-surgeon and the paediatric surgeon in the city have been postponing some five to seven surgeries every day in the past two weeks.Cases like hermeneutic hernia, which involve respiratory issues and can be operated by the surgeon after a few weeks of birth, are also being put China Jacquard Rugs manufacturer on hold.Doctors said babies with cough and cold cannot be put in the bypass machine because it would exacerbate pneumonia. Babies with hole in their heart cannot tolerate it due to which we are postponing the cases of surgery,” said Dr Swati Gerkar, paediatric cardiologist, Fortis Hospital. Rains are expected in the city between Tuesday and Thursday and could can lead to further fall in temperature. Pointing out to a case, Dr Avasthi said: "An infant had developed pneumonia which had ruined his condition.The temperature in the city in next few weeks will remain low fluctuating between 13 to 15 degrees Celsius

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