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Patna : Top seed and nine time champion Roger Federer, 38, Switzerland, will clash with 3rd seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, 21, Greece, in the semi-finals of Swiss Indoors Basel, an ATP World Tour 500 points event, at Basel, Switzerland, on October 26, 2019, night.
World No 3 Federer entered the SFs after his quarter-finals opponent and World No 17 Stan Wawrinka, 34, Switzerland, retired due to injury before the match. World No 7 Tsitsipas defeated World No 46 Filip Krajinovic, 27, Serbia, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 in 1hr 53 minutes battling back from a set down in QFs. The Greek fired 12 Aces in the match to just 2 by the Serbian. Both the players won 3 break points each in the match. Both of them also won 3 games each in a row in the match.
In the first semi-finals, World No 37 Reilly Opelka, 22, USA, will clash with World No 28 Alex de Minaur, 20, Australia. Opelka defeated 4th seed and World No 10 Roberto Bautista Agut, 31, Spain, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in the QFs. Opelka won 3 break points in the match to 2 by Agut.
Minaur beat World No 41 Jan-Lennard Struff, 29, Germany, 6-4, 7-6 in QFs. Struff fired 12 Aces in the match to to 2 by the German. But, Minaur won 2 break points to 1 by the German,