Argentina’s Juan Del Potro at the ATP tournament in Basel, Switzerland ... on Sunday.
Top
seed Juan Martin Del Potro retained his Swiss Indoors title with a 7-6
(7-3) 2-6 6-4 victory against home favourite Roger Federer in Basel on
Sunday BBC Sport reports.
A sixth Swiss title for world number six
Federer would have sealed his place at next month’s ATP World Tour
Finals in London for a 12th successive year.
“It’s always a pleasure to play Roger. He’s the hero here and for me my biggest inspiration,” said Del Potro.
Federer said, “I lifted my level and in the end wasn’t playing too badly.”
Federer, who has won only one title in
2013, produced some vintage moments but could not deny Del Potro his
fourth ATP Tour 500 title in a calendar year.
The Swiss now has to beat Kevin Anderson
or Mikhail Youzhny in his second-round match at the final qualifying
event in Paris next week to ensure one of the eight places at the 02
Arena for the World Tour Finals, which would equal Ivan Lendl for the
most successive appearances at the season finale.
Del Potro, already safely through to the
Tour Finals, broke in the eighth game of the opening set but to the
delight of the crowd Federer broke back immediately to love.
The home favourite saved two break
points to take the set to a tie-break but quickly found himself 3-0 down
and Del Potro went on to take the set.
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