This year’s Swiss Indoors Basel is one of 11 ATP World Tour 500 level tournaments. The top seed is three-time defending champion and World No. 1 Roger Federer, who takes on Belgian qualifier Olivier Rochus on Monday. The No. 2 seed is Novak Djokovic, who is making his tournament debut. Other seeds are: No. 3 Fernando Gonzalez, who won the title in 2005 and has a 15-4 career mark in Basel, No. 4 Marin Cilic of Croatia, No. 5 Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic, No. 6 Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland, No. 7 James Blake of the U.S. and No. 8 Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany. In the opening match Monday, ATP World Tour aces leader Ivo Karlovic takes on Frenchman Florent Serra followed by Italian Andreas Seppi against Swiss wild card Stephane Bohli. In the evening session, Federer brings a 6-0 mark against Rochus and No. 5 Stepanek is 5-2 lifetime against German Rainer Schuettler.

TOURNAMENT QUICK FACTS
CITY:   Basel, Switzerland
VENUE:  St. Jakobshalle Basel
DATE:   November 2-8, 2009
CATEGORY:  ATP World Tour 500
PRIZE MONEY:  € 1,755,000
DRAW:   32 singles / 16 doubles
SURFACE:  Hard
SINGLES FINAL:  Sunday, November 8, not before 3:30 p.m.
DOUBLES FINAL: Sunday, November 8, at 1 p.m.
FIRST HELD:  1970

2008 FINALS
Singles – (1) Roger Federer (SUI) d. (2) David Nalbandian (ARG) 6-3, 6-4
Doubles – (2) Bhupathi-Knowles d. Kas-Kohlschreiber 6-3, 6-3

RECENT CHAMPIONS/FINALISTS (since 2000)
2008 Roger Federer/David Nalbandian 
2007 Roger Federer/Jarkko Nieminen 
2006 Roger Federer/Fernando Gonzalez 
2005 Fernando Gonzalez/Marcos Baghdatis
2004 Jiri Novak/David Nalbandian 
2003 Guillermo Coria/David Nalbandian 
2002 David Nalbandian/Fernando Gonzalez
2001 Tim Henman/Roger Federer
2000 Thomas Enqvist/Roger Federer

* Bold denotes past champion/finalist in 2009 draw

A LOOK AT THE DRAW
Seeded Players (Tournament record, best finish – year)  
1 Roger Federer (SUI)   29-6 W-'08,07,06
2 Novak Djokovic (SRB)  Debut  
3 Fernando Gonzalez (CHI)  15-4 W-'05
4 Marin Cilic (CRO)  Debut 
5 Radek Stepanek (CZE)  Debut
6 Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI)  4-6 SF-'06
7 James Blake (USA)   4-4 QF-'08
8 Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER)  2-2 R16-'08,06

Wildcards: Stephane Bohli, Marco Chiudinelli, Marin Cilic
Qualifiers: Evgeny Korolev, Michael Lammer, Peter Luczak, Olivier Rochus
Youngest: Marin Cilic (21 years, 1 month)
Oldest:  Rainer Schuettler (33 years, 6 months) 
Top Country Breakdown: Germany (5), Switzerland (5), Croatia (3), France (3), Five countries with 2
Former Champions in Draw (2): Roger Federer (2006-08), Fernando Gonzalez (2005)  
Former Finalists in Draw (3):Jarkko Nieminen (2007), Fernando Gonzalez (2006, ‘02), Roger Federer (2000-01)

Seeded Doubles Teams: (Team Record, best finish – year)
1 Nestor / Zimonjic  2-2 SF-‘01
2 Bryan / Bryan      14-2 W-’07, ’04, ‘02
3 Soares / Ullyett   Debut 
4 Aspelin / Hanley   Debut

RECENT CHAMPIONS (since 2000)
2008 Mahesh Bhupathi / Mark Knowles
2007 Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan
2006 Mark Knowles / Daniel Nestor
2005 Agustin Calleri / Fernando Gonzalez
2004 Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan
2003 Mark Knowles / Daniel Nestor
2002 Bob Bryan / Mike Bryan
2001 Ellis Ferreira / Rick Leach
2000 Donald Johnson / Piet Norval  

* Bold denotes past champion in 2009 draw

ABOUT THE ATP WORLD TOUR
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MONDAY FIRST ROUND  HEAD-TO-HEADS – In Order of Play

Centre Court

Ivo Karlovic (CRO) vs  (LL) Florent Serra (FRA) Karlovic Leads 2-0
08 US Open (U.S.A.) Hard R64 Ivo Karlovic 7-6(5)6-4 6-2
09 ATP Masters 1000 Monte Carlo Clay R64 Ivo Karlovic 6-4 6-4
Other Meetings:
01 France F17 (Plaisir) Hard QF Florent Serra 6-4 6-2

Karlovic FastFacts:
2009 Highlights:
SF: Belgrade (l Kubot); QF: Chennai (l Devvarman); London / Queen's Club (l Roddick); Wimbledon (l Federer); Washington (l Roddick)
YTD W-L: 22-21
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 4
Date of Birth: February 28, 1979
South African Airways 2009 ATP Ranking: 38

• Karlovic, 30, is appearing in Basel for the third time (3-2 record) and his best result was the semi-finals two years ago
• The towering Croat leads the ATP World Tour in aces (827) this season and he comes into the tournament with a 22-21 match record on the year (9-13 on hard)…He fired an all-time record 78 aces in a 16-14 fifth set loss to Radek Stepanek in a Davis Cup semi-final tie last month
• His best result came on clay in Belgrade in May when he reached the semi-finals (l. to Kubot)…Also a quarter-finalist in four other tournaments, including Wimbledon (l. to Federer)

Serra FastFacts:
2009 Highlights:
F: Casablanca (l Ferrero); QF: Brisbane (l Verdasco); Delray Beach (l Fish); Estoril (l Blake); Gstaad (l Daniel); New Haven (l Acasuso); Lyon (l Ljubicic)
YTD W-L: 23-28
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 2
Date of Birth: February 28, 1981
South African Airways 2009 ATP Ranking: 71

• Serra, 28, is a lucky loser into the main draw after Austrian Jurgen Melzer withdrew due to a heel injury
• The Frenchman is coming off his seventh ATP World Tour quarter-final or better of the season in Lyon last Friday (l. to Ljubicic)
• He enters with a 23-28 match record on the season (13-15 on hard)…His best result came in April when he reached his third career ATP World Tour final at Casablanca (l. to Ferrero)
• He started the year by reaching the quarter-finals at Brisbane (l. Verdasco), then advanced to the same round in Delray Beach (l. Fish) in February…He also reached the quarter-finals at Estoril (l. to Blake) and Gstaad (l. to Daniel), both on clay
• He has won two ATP World Tour titles – Bucharest in September 2005 (d. Andreev) and Adelaide in January 2006 (d. Hrbaty) for his first hard court title
• He reached a career-high No. 36 on June 26, 2006

Andreas Seppi (ITA) vs (WC) Stephane Bohli (SUI)  First Meeting

Seppi FastFacts:
2009 Highlights:
SF: Belgrade (l Djokovic); Umag (l Ferrero)
YTD W-L: 22-29
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 0
Date of Birth: February 21, 1984
South African Airways 2009 ATP Ranking: 51

• Seppi, 25, the top Italian in the South African Airways 2009 ATP Rankings at No. 51, is playing in Basel for the first time in four years when he lost in the first round
• He enters the with a 22-29 match record on the season (8-14 on hard)
• His best results have come on clay with a semi-final showing at Belgrade in May, losing to No. 4 Djokovic in three sets and also in Umag (l. to Ferrero) in August
• At Wimbledon, he defeated American James Blake and Frenchman Marc Gicquel before falling in the third round (l. Andreev)
• He won the title at the San Marino Challenger (d. Starace) in August

Bohli FastFacts:
2009 Highlights:
YTD W-L: 0-3
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 0
Date of Birth: July 25, 1983
South African Airways 2009 ATP Ranking: 148

• Bohli, 26, is looking for his first ATP World Tour match win of the season (0-3)...He's lost in the first round in Rotterdam (l. to Monfils), Munich (l. to Bolelli) and Gstaad (l. to Benneteau)
• In his Basel main draw debut last year he lost in the second round (d. Acasuso, l. to del Potro)
• His best results have come in Challenger competition, compiling a 20-12 match record with one title, in Recanati, Italy in July (d. Golubev)
• He reached a career-high No. 126 on Sept. 8, 2008 and comes in this week ranked No. 148

(1) Roger Federer (SUI) vs (Q) Olivier Rochus (BEL) Federer Leads 6-0
05 ATP Masters Series Miami (U.S.A.) Hard R64 Roger Federer 6-3 6-1
05 ATP Masters Series Cincinnati (USA) Hard R16 Roger Federer 6-3 6-4
05 US Open (U.S.A.) Hard R32 Roger Federer 6-3 7-6(6)6-2
06 ATP Masters Series Indian Wells  Hard R32 Roger Federer 3-6 6-2 7-5
06 Halle (Germany) Grass QF Roger Federer 6-7(2)7-6(9)7-6(5)
08 Estoril (Portugal) Clay R32 Roger Federer 4-6 6-3 6-2

Federer FastFacts:
2009 Highlights:
W: ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Madrid (d Nadal); Roland Garros (d Soderling); Wimbledon (d Roddick); ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Cincinnati (d Djokovic); F: Australian Open (l Nadal); US Open (l Del Potro); SF: Doha (l Murray); ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Indian Wells (l Murray); ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Miami (l Djokovic); ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Rome (l Djokovic); QF: ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Canada (l Tsonga)
YTD W-L: 55-8
YTD Titles: 4
Career Titles: 61
Date of Birth: August 8, 1981
South African Airways 2009 ATP Ranking: 1

• Federer, 28, the three-time defending champion in Basel, has a 29-6 career record in his birthplace tournament…He also was runner-up in 2000-01
• The No. 1 player on the ATP World Tour enters with a 55-8 match record on the season, including 30-6 on hard courts…He has won 34 of his past 36 matches…He is 4-2 in finals and this is his first tournament since reaching the US Open final for the sixth straight year on Sept. 14 (l. to del Potro in five sets)
• From mid-May to July, he won three straight titles at ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Madrid (d. Nadal), Roland Garros (d. Soderling) and Wimbledon (d. Roddick), setting the Grand Slam record with 15 titles…Then in August he captured his third title at ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Cincinnati (d. Djokovic)…Has won at least one title for nine straight years (since 2001)
• This is his 255th week at No. 1 in the South African Airways ATP Rankings (since 1973), which is fourth all-time behind Pete Sampras (286), Ivan Lendl (270) and Jimmy Connors (268)
• The Swiss superstar became the sixth man in history to complete a career Grand Slam at Roland Garros in his 11th attempt by defeating Swede Robin Soderling in straight sets in the final…Lost six sets en route to the title, the most of any Grand Slam title run and was pushed to five sets by Tommy Haas in the fourth and Juan Martin del Potro in the semi-finals                                                           
• Four weeks later he won a record-breaking 15th Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, where he collected his sixth crown at the All England Club...Only dropped one set (against Kohlschreiber) en route to a record seventh straight Wimbledon final, where he defeated Andy Roddick 16-14 in the fifth set, breaking the American for the first time in the final game of the match after he held 37 straight service games…Fired a personal-best 50 aces in the epic battle…By clinching his 60th tour-level title – the most among active players, he reclaimed No. 1 ranking on July 6 after Nadal held the top spot for 46 weeks earlier
• He opened the first month with a SF in Doha (l. to Murray) and followed with runner-up at the Australian Open, falling to rival Nadal in five sets...It was his first loss in a Grand Slam hard court final (8-1)...He then withdrew from Dubai and first round Davis Cup tie vs. the U.S. with a back injury…Returned from a six-week layoff due and advanced to the SF in Indian Wells, defeating No. 17 Fernando Gonzalez and No. 10 Fernando Verdasco before losing to No. 4 Andy Murray for the fourth straight time

Rochus FastFacts:
2009 Highlights:
F: Stockholm (l Baghdatis); SF: Halle (l Djokovic); Newport (l Ram)
YTD W-L: 14-8
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 2
Date of Birth: January 18, 1981
South African Airways 2009 ATP Ranking: 61

• Rochus, 28, qualified into the main draw and he’s making his first appearance in Basel since 2003 when he reached the quarter-finals (l. to Roddick)
• A week ago Sunday he advanced to his seventh career ATP World Tour final in Stockholm where he lost to Marcos Baghdatis
• The top Belgian at No. 61 also turned in semi-final showings on grass in Halle (l. to Djokovic) in June and Newport in July (l. to R Ram)
• He has an 11-34 career record vs. Top 10 opponents, losing his last eight since beating No. 4 Nikolay Davydenko in the second round of Dubai in 2007
• He is 14-8 on the season in ATP World Tour level play and 26-13 in Challengers with one title
• He reached a career-high No. 24 on Oct. 17, 2005

(5) Radek Stepanek (CZE) vs Rainer Schuettler (GER) Stepanek Leads 5-2 
02 Munich (Germany) Clay SF Rainer Schuettler 6-4 6-3
03 ATP Masters Series Miami (U.S.A.) Hard R32 Radek Stepanek 6-4 6-4
03 Halle (Germany) Grass R16 Radek Stepanek 6-4 6-7(6) 6-3
03 Gstaad (Switzerland) Clay QF Radek Stepanek 6-4 6-2
04 Rotterdam (The Netherlands) Hard R16 Rainer Schuettler 6-3 6-4
04 Stuttgart (Germany) Clay R32 Radek Stepanek 6-7(6)6-3 6-2
05 Milan (Italy) Carpet QF Radek Stepanek 7-6(4)4-6 6-3

Stepanek FastFacts:
2009 Highlights:
W: Brisbane (d Verdasco); San Jose (d Fish); F: Memphis (l Roddick); QF: Barcelona (l Davydenko); ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Shanghai (l Davydenko); Vienna (l Melzer)
YTD W-L: 41-18
YTD Titles: 2
Career Titles: 4
Date of Birth: November 27, 1978
South African Airways 2009 ATP Ranking: 14

• Stepanek, 30, the top player from the Czech Republic, is making his main draw debut in Basel
• Last week he reached his sixth ATP World Tour quarter-final or better in Vienna where he lost to eventual champion Jurgen Melzer in the quarters
• He has compiled a 41-18 match record, including 29-11 on hard courts
• His five previous QF or better results were winning third and fourth ATP World Tour titles of his career at Brisbane (d. Verdasco) and San Jose (d. Fish), runner-up finish at Memphis (l. to Roddick) and QF on clay at Barcelona (l. to Davydenko) and at ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Shanghai three weeks ago (l. to Davydenko)
• Has also helped his country to its first Davis Cup final since 1980 (will play Spain in December)…Has a 3-1 singles mark…In first round tie vs. France, lost to No. 11 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in second rubber before clinching tie with straight-sets win over No. 8 Gilles Simon in fourth rubber…In July, beat Argentina’s Juan Monaco in fifth and decisive rubber in quarter-finals…Last month, survived a record 78 aces by Ivo Karlovic in opening rubber to win 16-14 in fifth set in 5:59 marathon
• In Grand Slam play play reached 3rd Rd. or better each time…At Australian Open (l. to Verdasco in 3rd Rd.), Roland Garros (l. to Cilic in 3rd Rd.), Wimbledon (won back-to-back five-setters vs. Starace in 2nd Rd. and Ferrer in 3rd Rd. before falling to Hewitt in 4th Rd., also in five sets) and US Open (l. to Djokovic in 4th Rd.)
• Captured his first two ATP World Tour titles in a span of 152 tournaments, then won his two in '09 in four events

Schuettler FastFacts:
2009 Highlights:
SF: Chennai (W/O vs Devvarman); s-Hertogenbosch (l Becker)
YTD W-L: 16-27
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 4
Date of Birth: April 25, 1976
South African Airways 2009 ATP Ranking: 85

• Schuettler, 33, the oldest player in the singles draw, is making his third appearance in Basel (2-2 mark)…His best result was the quarter-finals in 2004
• He enters with a 16-27 match record on the season (9-14 on hard) and his best result is the semi-finals in Chennai in January and ‘s-Hertogenbosch in June
• Three weeks ago he reached the third round at ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Shanghai (l. to Djokovic)
• In May, helped his country to the final at the ATP World Team Championship in Duesseldorf,  highlighted by a win over No. 7 Gilles Simon 64 64…Also posted his 300th career win that week
• In the first week of the year in Chennai he reached the semi-finals but withdrew due to a left wrist injury against Indian wild card Somdev Devvarman

OTHER FIRST ROUND MATCHES – To be played Tuesday or Wednesday

Jeremy Chardy (FRA) vs James Blake (USA)       First Meeting

Fernando Gonzalez (CHI) vs John Isner (USA)      First Meeting

Horacio Zeballos (ARG) vs Richard Gasquet (FRA)       First Meeting

Daniel Koellerer (AUT) vs Michael Lammer (SUI)       First Meeting

Marco Chiudinelli (SUI) vs Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) Kohlschreiber Leads 1-0
09 Doha (Qatar) Hard R32 Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-4 6-3

Viktor Troicki (SRB) vs Benjamin Becker (GER)   First ATP Meeting
Other Meetings:
06 Dnepropetrovsk CH (Ukraine) Hard QF Benjamin Becker 3-6 7-5 6-4

Philipp Petzschner (GER) vs Marin Cilic (CRO)   Cilic Leads 1-0
08 Munich (Germany) Clay R16 Marin Cilic 6-4 7-6(7)

Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) vs Ivan Ljubicic (CRO)  Ljubicic Leads 3-1
05 Doha (Qatar) Hard R32 Ivan Ljubicic 6-3 6-4
06 Vienna (Austria) Hard QF Ivan Ljubicic 6-3 6-2
07 Roland Garros (France) Clay R64 Ivan Ljubicic 6-4 6-3 6-7(3) 6-3
08 Doha (Qatar) Hard SF Stanislas Wawrinka 7-6(1) 6-4

Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) vs Julien Benneteau (FRA)  Nieminen Leads 2-0
07 Marseille (France) Hard QF Jarkko Nieminen 6-2 1-6 6-3
07 ATP Masters Series Montreal (Canada)Hard R64 Jarkko Nieminen 6-3 6-4

Andreas Beck (GER) vs Novak Djokovic (SRB)     First Meeting