Davidoff Swiss Indoors Basel 2011: Preview Day 3 – Part Three
Evening session at the Davidoff Swiss Indoors Basel on Wednesday, 2nd November includes two singles matches including Roger Federer and Andy Roddick coupled two doubles clashes. An ATP 500 event, Basel event is currently
underway at St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland.
Continuing his bid for the fifth title here, Federer plays Finn Jarkko Nieminen in the second round. Previously the Swiss maestro had done away with Potito Starace in the first round while the Finn had met and defeated the top
ranked Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci.
A titlist here in 2006-08 and then in 2010 along with the local crowd support and the skillset of being the former world number and sixteen times Grand Slam champion, Federer is expected to whitewash the Finn.
The pair had last met in the first round of the Halle event in 2010 where the Swiss had enjoyed a straight sets victory over the Finn. This was the maestro’s eleventh straight victory over Nieminen in their eleven meetings. Not
only does the Swiss hold an eleven match winning streak, he also holds a 22-0 set win loss against the Finn. Expected to increase his winning run against the Finn, the Swiss is very likely to sail into the quarterfinal of the event here.
Following Federer is another former world number one, Andy Roddick of the United States of America. In his fifth appearance here, Roddick holds a 10-4 career win loss mark for the event with two semi-final appearances, in 2003
and then in 2010.
Roddick opens his debut title bid here against German Tommy Haas. Both players in addition to holding similar runs in their last ten, stand at a level seven matches win each. While Roddick was a quarterfinalist at Shanghai, Haas
was one at Vienna.
Both players are equally matched with Roddick enjoying the only advantage of ranking higher than the German. The American is ranked 15th while Haas, a former top ten-er, is ranked outside the top 200 currently. A-Rod
is expected sail past the German is straight, though perhaps not simple, sets.
Also taking to the courts will be Belgians, Xavier Malisse and d**k Norman, as they take on the first time pairing of Mahesh Bhupathi and Michael Mertinak. Wrapping up the doubles action for the day will be the German Austrian
tandem of Christopher Kas and Alexander Peya as they play the American Mexican duo of Scott Lipsky and Santiago Gonzalez.
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