Federer will be absent from Dubai and Monte Carlo in 2012

Roger Federer will culminate in the 2011 season contesting the Masters Cup in London, where defending champion and third place world ranking. However, this Friday has been released by the Swiss calendar for next year, which highlights the absence of Dubai and Monte Carlo.

After playing the Abu Dhabi exhibition with Rafael Nadal or Novak Djokovic among others, Roger Federer will kick the official season in Doha, the only warm-up tournament before the Open de Australia. After playing in Melbourne, Federer play in Dubai dispensed, an event he has played so often since 2002-with the exception of the editions of 2009 and 2010 - and city has scheduled a second home. UAE reschedule the Rotterdam tournament, a tournament that has not played since 2005, in anticipation of the first 1,000 of the season Masters in Indian Wells and Miami.

Federer reduced to a minimum your calendar on clay, surface that is absent from only playing in Monte Carlo Masters 1000-not required-to participate in Madrid, Rome and Roland Garros. Then will jump to the grass, being seen again in Halle and Wimbledon, besides the addition of the Olympic Games in 2012 will be held in the premises of the All England Club.

In the last third of the season, Roger played the Masters 1000 in Toronto and Cincinnati before playing at the U.S. Open Grand Slam last season. Then, Shanghai, Basel, Paris and London Masters Cup will culminate the season.