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Patna : Top seed and nine-time champion Roger Federer, 38, Switzerland, beat 3rd seed and World No 7 Stefanos Tsitsipas, 21, Greece, in straight sets to enter the final of SWiss Indoors Basel, an ATP World Tour 500 points event, at Basel, Switzerland, on October 26, 2019, night.
World No 3 Federer beat Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-4 in just 78 minutes in the semi-finals winning 2 break points besides 3 games in a row. Tsitsipas had defeated World No 1 Novak Djokovic, Srerbia, in the QFs of ATP Shanghai Masters on October 11, 2019. Federer will face World No 28 Alex de Minaur, 20, Australia, in the final on October 27, 2019.
Minaur defeated World No 37 Reilly Opelka, 22, USA, 7-6, 6-7, 7-6 in a three-set thriller in the semi-finals.Opelka hammered 26 Aces in the match to 14 by Minaur. Both the players won 1 break point each in the match. Minaur won 2 tiebfreaks to 1 by Opelka.