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SWISS INDOORS BASEL: DAY 7 MEDIA NOTES Sunday, 28 October 2018 SWISS INDOORS BASEL: DAY 7 MEDIA NOTES Sunday, 28 October 2018 St. Jakobshalle | Basel, Switzerland | 22-28 October 2018 Draw: S-32, D-16 | Prize Money: €1,984,420 | Surface: Indoor Hard ATP World Tour Info Tournament Info ATP PR & Marketing ATPWorldTour.com SwissIndoorsBasel.ch Fabienne Benoit: [email protected] Facebook: @ATPWorldTour @SwissIndoorsBasel Press Officer: [email protected] Instagram: @ATPWorldTour @SwissIndoorsBasel_official TV & Radio: TennisTV.com FEDERER AIMS FOR 9TH BASEL TITLE, FACES QUALIFIER COPIL IN FINAL • Top seed Roger Federer will try to claim his ninth Swiss Indoors Basel title in his 14th appearance in the Basel final, meeting Marius Copil for the first time in the championship match. Having picked up his 70th match win at the event with his semi-final victory over No. 7 seed Daniil Medvedev (now 14-1 in Basel semi-final matches), Federer is currently riding a 19-match winning streak at the tournament. The Swiss star has reached the Basel final in each of his last 12 appearances (2006- 15, 2017-18), and now sets his sights on winning a 99th career ATP World Tour singles title. • Copil’s terrific week in Basel will continue with the biggest final of his career, as he seeks to become the 14th first-time singles titlist this season. The Romanian reached his first ATP World Tour semi- final and final at Sofia in February, and will now contest a second singles final after making it through the qualifying. Having gone 0-6 against Top 10 players prior to this week, Copil picked up his first Top 10 win over No. 6 Marin Cilic in the second round, and then garnered another in his semi-final upset of No. 5 Alexander Zverev. He is the first qualifier in the Basel final since Marcos Baghdatis in 2005, and the lowest-ranked Basel finalist since No. 100 Patrick McEnroe in 1994. • Alexander Zverev may have fallen to Copil in the singles semi-final, but he will still play for a Basel title on Sunday, as he will partner his older brother Mischa in the doubles championship final. Alexander won at Montpellier in 2017 and reached 4 other doubles finals in his career – all while teamed with his brother. He seeks his second doubles title, while Mischa goes for a fourth career doubles title. They’ll meet Dominic Inglot and Franko Skugor, who paired up for the first time at Budapest in April and promptly won the title. They won again at s-Hertogenbosch two months later. ATP RACE TO LONDON ATP RACE TO MILAN No. Player Points No. Player Points 1 Rafael Nadal 7,480 1 Alexander Zverev 4,950 2 Novak Djokovic 7,445 2 Stefanos Tsitsipas 2,175 3 Roger Federer 5,460* 3 Denis Shapovalov 1,450 4 Juan Martin del Potro 5,300 4 Alex de Minaur 1,308 5 Alexander Zverev 4,905 5 Frances Tiafoe 1,055 6 Kevin Anderson 4,020* 6 Taylor Fritz 974 7 Marin Cilic 3,870 7 Andrey Rublev 760 8 Dominic Thiem 3,535 8 Jaume Munar 661 9 Kei Nishikori 3,210* 9 Hubert Hurkacz 591^ 10 John Isner 3,065 10 Ugo Humbert 582 Race ends on 4 November Race ends on 28 October Top 8 qualify for Nitto ATP Finals Top 7 qualify for Next Gen ATP Finals + 1 WC Tournament held 11-18 November in London Tournament held 6-10 November in Milan Bold: Qualified Bold: Qualified * Add 200 points for Basel or Vienna title ^ Add 45 points for Brest, FRA Challenger title For the latest stats, facts and figures about the ATP World Tour, follow @ATPMediaInfo on Twitter. Swiss Indoors Basel Day 7 – Sunday, 28 October 2018 Page 2 of 4 www.ATPWorldTour.com Qualifiers are 8-3 in Finals in 2018: Copil’s run is the 12th time that a qualifier made a singles final this year: Daniil Medvedev Champion – Sydney (d. de Minaur) Roberto Carballes Baena Champion – Quito (d. Ramos-Vinolas) Mirza Basic Champion – Sofia (d. Copil) Nikoloz Basilashvili Champion – Hamburg (d. L. Mayer) Martin Klizan Champion – Kitzbuhel (d. Istomin) Bernard Tomic Champion – Chengdu (d. Fognini) Yoshihito Nishioka Champion – Shenzhen (d. Herbert) Daniil Medvedev Champion – Tokyo (d. Nishikori) Denis Istomin Finalist – Kitzbuhel (l. to Klizan) Matthias Bachinger Finalist – Metz (l. to Simon) Ernests Gulbis Finalist – Stockholm (l. to Tsitsipas) 13 First-Time ATP Champions in 2018: Players trying to win their first ATP World Tour title are 13-18 in 2018 finals. Marius Copil is attempting to join this list: Age Tournament Daniil Medvedev 21 Sydney Roberto Carballes Baena 24 Quito Mirza Basic 26 Sofia Frances Tiafoe 20 Delray Beach Marco Cecchinato 25 Budapest Taro Daniel 25 Istanbul Marton Fucsovics 26 Geneva Mischa Zverev 30 Eastbourne Matteo Berrettini 22 Gstaad Nikoloz Basilashvili 26 Hamburg Yoshihito Nishioka 23 Shenzhen Stefanos Tsitsipas 20 Stockholm Kyle Edmund 23 Antwerp INFOSYS ATP SCORES & STATS Swiss Indoors Basel [1] Roger Federer [Q] Marius Copil Aces 38 75 1st-Serve Percentage 54% (171 of 318) 56% (201 of 356) 1st-Serve Points Won 75% (128 of 171) 80% (162 of 201) 2nd-Serve Points Won 49% (72 of 147) 54% (84 of 155) Service Games Won 78% (39 of 50) 96% (48 of 50) Break Points Saved 61% (17 of 28) 90% (19 of 21) 1st-Serve Return Points Won 39% (67 of 171) 21% (36 of 172) 2nd-Serve Return Points Won 53% (79 of 149) 49% (73 of 149) Return Games Won 38% (18 of 48) 16% (8 of 49) Break Points Converted 50% (18 of 36) 53% (8 of 15) BOLD: Leads all players at Swiss Indoors Basel. For the latest stats, facts and figures about the ATP World Tour, follow @ATPMediaInfo on Twitter. Swiss Indoors Basel Day 7 – Sunday, 28 October 2018 Page 3 of 4 www.ATPWorldTour.com FEDEX ATP HEAD2HEADS: SINGLES AND DOUBLES FINALS [1] Roger Federer (SUI) vs [Q] Marius Copil (ROU) First Meeting Federer 2018 Summary: W (3): Australian Open (d Cilic); Rotterdam (d Dimitrov); Stuttgart (d Raonic); F (3): ATP Masters 1000 Indian Wells (l Del Potro); Halle (l Coric); ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati (l Djokovic); SF (1): ATP Masters 1000 Shanghai (l Coric); QF (1): Wimbledon (l Anderson) YTD W-L: 43-7 (31-5 on hard) YTD Titles: 3 / Career Titles: 98 Date of Birth: August 8, 1981 (37) ATP Ranking: 3 Basel W-L (Best Result): 70-9 (2006-08, 2010-11, 2014-15, 2017 Champion) • Tournament Note: Eight-time champion, 14-time finalist, 12 finals in last 12 appearances, 19-match winning streak. • Became oldest World No. 1 in 45-year history of ATP Rankings at age 36 on 19 February. • Owns records for most weeks at No. 1 (310), years since debut at No. 1 (14) and years between stints at No. 1 (5). • Secured No. 1 ranking with Rotterdam QF win (d. Haase). Went on to win 97th ATP World Tour title (d. Dimitrov). • Clinched No. 1 most recently with Stuttgart SF win (d. Kyrgios in 3rd-set TB). Went on to win 98th title (d. Raonic). • Ranked No. 1 for 6 weeks from 19 February-1 April, 1 week from 14-20 May and 1 week from 18-24 June. • Extended records with 20th Grand Slam title and 30th final at Australian Open (d. Cilic). Tied record with 6th AO title. • Tied his own record with 34 straight sets won at Wimbledon before squandering 1 MP vs. Anderson in QF. • Held in 100 straight service games at ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati (l. to Djokovic in final after being broken 3 times). • Saved 2 MPs vs. Paire en route to 12th Halle final (l. to Coric). • Enjoyed career-best 17-0 start before squandering 3 MPs vs. Del Potro in ATP Masters 1000 Indian Wells final. • Fell to Del Potro in 3rd-set TB. Now 1-8 in championship matches decided by final-set TB. • Also lost 3rd-set TB to No. 175 Kokkinakis in ATP Masters 1000 Miami 2R -- worst loss by World No. 1 since same tournament and round in 2003 (No. 178 Clavet d. No. 1 Hewitt). • Earned 40+ wins for 17th time in last 18 seasons (2001-15, 2017-18). • Skipped clay-court swing and has not played on surface since 12 May 2016 (l. to Thiem in Rome 3R). Copil 2018 Summary: F (1): Sofia (l Basic); QF (1): ’s-Hertogenbosch (l Ebden) YTD W-L: 19-20 (15-11 on hard) YTD Titles: 0 / Career Titles: 0 Date of Birth: October 17, 1990 (28) ATP Ranking: 93 Basel W-L (Best Result): 4-0 (2018 Finalist) • Tournament Note: Qualifier picked up the first two Top 10 wins of his career this week, over No. 6 Cilic in 2R and No. 5 A. Zverev in SF (previously 0-6 vs. Top 10). Lowest-ranked Basel finalist since No. 100 P. McEnroe in 1994. • Advanced to 1st ATP World Tour SF and final at Sofia (d. Kovalik, l. to Basic). • Achieved career-high No. 73 in ATP Rankings on 19 February (will reach a new career-high on Monday following Basel). Earned career-high 19 wins this season. • Snapped 5-match tour-level losing streak by saving 2 MPs vs. Bedene in ’s-Hertogenbosch 1R (l. to Ebden in QF). • Fell to Murray in Washington 3R after 3 hours and 2 minutes. Match ended at 3:01 am. • Qualified at ATP Masters 1000 events in Madrid (l. to Struff in 1R) and Toronto (l. to Cilic in 2R). • Squandered 2 MPs vs. Polansky in ATP Masters 1000 Indian Wells 1R, losing in 3 TBs. • Retired in US Open 1R vs.
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