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🎩 Swiss Indoors Basel Main Contenders

🎩 Swiss Indoors Basel Main Contenders

October 25, 2022

Hey, Tennis Pro! It is Tuesday!

Alcaraz is back! The Spaniard of the moment is back at the Swiss Indoors Basel showing new momentum in his matchup against Britain's Jack Draper. Really, Alcaraz came back after his first Grand Slam title in Astana, but it seems that this appearance was made by mere compromise when he fell back just in the first round of the tournament. This time in Basel, he looks as solid as it gets and committed to reaching more advanced stages of the tournament. Alcaraz is back for the end of the year and I hope that the Swiss Open will be the ideal show for the beginning of the end of a great year for the Spaniard.

Today's opening comment is backed up in numbers by this chart. Alcaraz meets again in Switzerland with the antagonist of his personal story during the last year with the Danish Casper Ruud. Although history has favored the Spaniard in most encounters, I have no doubt that Alcaraz trembles to consider someone the size of Ruud on the other side of the draw to counterweight him in the tournament.

For his part, we also recognize Felix who is coming off a run of two championships in a row in Firenze and Antwerp, making it kind off odd to see him with such low odds after the forcefulness he has shown recently. The setup is ideal for excellent level matches from quarter-finals onwards and what better setting than indoor Basel for this type of match.

Felix Fever in Europe

The Canadian has been in charge of making Europe fall in love with him after the ATP Tour's visit through America. Auger Aliassime tied the longest winning streak of his career with 8 wins to his name since his start at the Firenze tournament, appearing relentless in the final stages thereafter with 6 of those wins coming in straight sets.

Just on Sunday he secured his title in Antwerp against Sebastian Korda in straight sets and arrives in Basel as the third seed in the draw. Felix is one of those who have been closing the tour year better off and with his place assured in the Turin finals, he becomes a serious contender for the last tournament of the year, where surprises usually turn up.