Roger Federer calls for complete drugs crackdown in tennis

ROGER FEDERER wants tennis chiefs to launch a total crackdown on drug cheats.

The Swiss legend was rocked after Maria Sharapova admitted she tested positive for a banned substance at the Australian Open in January.

Fed, 34, revealed he has been tested just ONCE in ten years in Dubai where he spends about two months a year.

Although he is regularly visited by doping officials in Europe, the 17-time Grand Slam champ said: “I definitely think tennis is doing a lot better than we have in the past.

Federer called for more testing to be done on the circuit Getty Images

“You could always do more testing. You could ask someone in fifty years and he’ll say we could still do more.

“You could test four times per day.

“What is the right amount and what’s not?

“Clearly I was very surprised about Sharapova but it also shows the famous players can get caught in the system. It seems to be working.

“I believe we should keep blood samples for ten years, so tennis players know you could get punished retrospectively.

Sharapova tested positive for banned drug meldonium at the Australian Open AP:Associated Press

Maria Sharapova: Press conference Q&A

“I’m a big believer in that. I’ve been in Dubai for ten years now and I’ve been tested once — that’s not OK for me.

“I get tested more in Switzerland because a tester lives in my village.

“Maybe I am naive as I believe athletes and trust what they’re doing.

“I don’t think there’s a major problem. I quadruple check anything I take.”

Injured myself while preparing bath for daughters: Federer

Miami, March 25: Swiss tennis ace Roger Federer has said he suffered a knee injury in January while preparing a bath for his twin daughters.

The 17-time Grand Slam winner needed arthroscopic surgery and has made a return at the Miami Open this week.

"I was going to run a bath for the girls. I made a very simple movement, turned back, heard a click in my knee. I went to the zoo. My leg was swollen," Federer was quoted as saying by BBC on Thursday.

The 34-year-old said he was disappointed that he had to undergo an operation.

"I thought I was going to get through my career without any. It was a big shock and, yeah, disappointing," said the Swiss, who is set to lock horns against Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro in Round 2 here.