DATE: October 21-27, 2019
SURFACE: Hard
PRIZE MONEY: €2,082,655
FIELD SIZE: 32
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Roger Federer
Seeds:
1. Roger Federer
2. Alexander Zverev
3. Stefanos Tsitsipas
4. Roberto Bautista Agut
5. Fabio Fognini
6. David Goffin
7. Stan Wawrinka
8. Benoit Paire
The Tournament:
The Swiss Indoors is a professional men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland.
The tournament was created in 1970 by Roger Brennwald and originally featured mainly Swiss top players. It became an event on the Grand Prix tennis circuit in 1977, when Björn Borg won the title, and stayed until 1989. Since 2009 it has been part of the World Tour 500 Series of the ATP Tour. Before 2009, it was part of the ATP World Series from 1990 until 1999 which became the ATP International Series in 2000. It has been held annually at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, in October, since 1995.
Basel native Roger Federer holds the record for most singles titles, having won the tournament nine times, in 2006–2008, 2010–2011, 2014–2015 and 2017–2018. Federer has reached the final a record fourteen times (2000–2001, 2006–2015, 2017–2018), which is also an Open Era record for most finals reached at a single ATP event.
About Basel:
Basel is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zürich and Geneva) with about 180,000 inhabitants.
Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany. As of 2016, the Swiss Basel agglomeration was the third-largest in Switzerland, with a population of 541,000 in 74 municipalities in Switzerland (municipal count as of 2018). The initiative Trinational Eurodistrict Basel (TEB) of 62 suburban communes including municipalities in neighboring countries, counted 829,000 inhabitants in 2007.
Tourism Guide:
SURFACE: Hard
PRIZE MONEY: €2,082,655
FIELD SIZE: 32
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Roger Federer
Seeds:
1. Roger Federer
2. Alexander Zverev
3. Stefanos Tsitsipas
4. Roberto Bautista Agut
5. Fabio Fognini
6. David Goffin
7. Stan Wawrinka
8. Benoit Paire
The Tournament:
The Swiss Indoors is a professional men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland.
The tournament was created in 1970 by Roger Brennwald and originally featured mainly Swiss top players. It became an event on the Grand Prix tennis circuit in 1977, when Björn Borg won the title, and stayed until 1989. Since 2009 it has been part of the World Tour 500 Series of the ATP Tour. Before 2009, it was part of the ATP World Series from 1990 until 1999 which became the ATP International Series in 2000. It has been held annually at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, in October, since 1995.
Basel native Roger Federer holds the record for most singles titles, having won the tournament nine times, in 2006–2008, 2010–2011, 2014–2015 and 2017–2018. Federer has reached the final a record fourteen times (2000–2001, 2006–2015, 2017–2018), which is also an Open Era record for most finals reached at a single ATP event.
About Basel:
Basel is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zürich and Geneva) with about 180,000 inhabitants.
Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany. As of 2016, the Swiss Basel agglomeration was the third-largest in Switzerland, with a population of 541,000 in 74 municipalities in Switzerland (municipal count as of 2018). The initiative Trinational Eurodistrict Basel (TEB) of 62 suburban communes including municipalities in neighboring countries, counted 829,000 inhabitants in 2007.
Tourism Guide:
He obviously couldn’t keep his concentration. Zverev probably made his move in the locker room, we’ll see but I wouldn’t be surprised if they play doubles together next year. :whistle:
