Roger Federer of Switzerland poses with the trophy after winning the men's singles final match against Gilles Simon of France at the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament in Shanghai October 12, 2014. Federer claimed one of the few titles to have previo
Roger Federer of Switzerland poses with the trophy after winning the men's singles final match against Gilles Simon of France at the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament in Shanghai October 12, 2014. Federer claimed one of the few titles to have previously eluded him after he overcame a sluggish start to beat injured Frenchman Simon in the final of the Shanghai Masters on Sunday. Reuters

Roger Federer recently climbed back to the world no. 2 ranking after beating Giles Simon 7-6, (6), 7-6 (2) in the Shanghai Masters, and thus far his next goal is to win the Davis Cup for his homeland Switzerland. International Business Times previously reported that the Swiss Maestro insists that he will not go out of his way to achieve the year-end world no. 1 ranking and might go for the Davis cup instead, which is arguably the biggest omission from his record thus far.

Next week, the 17-time Grand Slam champion is set to return to Basel. However, instead of practicing indoors to prepare for the upcoming home event, he is already looking forward to the Davis Cup finals in November on the red clay in Lille, France, according to his tweet with a photo of dirty shoes on clay captioned, "Claycourt practice #dirtysocks #sliding #grinding."

Roger Federer's longtime agent, Tony Godsick, believes that there a lot of possibilities in store for Federer this season. "Lots of candy to put in the trick-or-treat basket near the end of the year," he said, as quoted by The New York Times. "He will try to do as much as he can, but I don't think anyone questions his scheduling. He's a master of that, so we'll see. It'll be a lot."

Since Wimbledon 2012, Roger Federer remains without a Grand Slam title, but his chances of having the year-end world no. 1 ranking seems feasible, The New York Times claims. Just after his recent victory at the Shanghai Masters, Federer displaced his Spaniard rival, Rafael Nadal, and became the world no. 2.

Meanwhile, the 33-year-old will play next at Paris, Basel and culminate the season at the ATP World Tour Finals in London, which gives him a total of 3000 points. At this point, in the event that Federer snags the year-end world no. 1 ranking, he will be the oldest recipient of the title, according to the The New York Times.

Roger Federer claimed that he will think and discuss his schedule with his team when he comes back to Switzerland. He reiterated, however, that nothing will change in his schedule.

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