Swiss Indoors Basel 2019, Switzerland, ATP 500

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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

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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.

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should be good a event strong field Federer always at least makes the final here.
 

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All Swiss QF looms large. Stan is rounding up to form recently.
 

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Roger already in action tomorrow v. Gojo.
 

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Roger already in action tomorrow v. Gojo.

I think he chooses to do so nowadays. That way he gets Tuesday off. He will then again choose to play on Wednesday and get Thursday off. But, he would need to play the last three rounds on consecutive days, Fri, Sat and Sun.
 
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I think he chooses to do so nowadays. That way he gets Tuesday off. He will then again choose to play on Wednesday and get Thursday off.
But, he would need to play the last three rounds on consecutive days, Fri, Sat and Sun.
That's what I figured. Seems smart.
 

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Fed won easily, 6-2, 6-1. Didn't see the match. I was just score-watching at work.

Next up - Lajovic, most probably.
 
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Zverev in deep trouble with Fritz serving for the match.
 

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Zverev seemed smitten by Fritz today who is a younger cuter version of himself. :rose: 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:
 

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Who is this P. Andujar-Alba? Is he a new player or some old player with a name change.
 

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Who is this P. Andujar-Alba? Is he a new player or some old player with a name change.
Pablo Andújar Alba is his full name, in the "Spanish-naming tradition," (as they always like to say on Wikipedia.) But where did you see him listed that way? It would be like listing Rafa as Rafael Nadal Perera, which is his full name. Some use both last names and some don't. Albert Ramos Viñolas does, for example, and he didn't always, IIRC. (I think he used to just go by Albert Ramos.)
 

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Pablo Andújar Alba is his full name, in the "Spanish-naming tradition," (as they always like to say on Wikipedia.) But where did you see him listed that way? It would be like listing Rafa as Rafael Nadal Perera, which is his full name. Some use both last names and some don't. Albert Ramos Viñolas does, for example, and he didn't always, IIRC. (I think he used to just go by Albert Ramos.)

He is in the draw in Basel. His name is listed like that in "live tennis scores" site.
 

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He is in the draw in Basel. His name is listed like that in "live tennis scores" site.
I looked there and didn't see it. It's just a choice of how to name him. Same guy.