It was a big day in the Emirates ATP Race To London for Juan Martin del Potro. After fellow Race contender Pablo Carreno Busta lost at the Erste Bank Open 500 in Vienna, del Potro defeated Julien Benneteau 6-4, 6-4 at the Swiss Indoors Basel in one hour, 29 minutes to advance to the quarter-finals. With the Spaniard’s loss and the Argentine’s victory, del Potro can now move into the final qualifying spot for the Nitto ATP Finals if he goes on to win the title this week in Basel. While he can only gain a total of 480 points for the week, that would move him 10 points ahead of Carreno Busta’s total of 2,605. "I'm not thinking too...
Watch highlights of Nitto ATP Finals hopefuls Juan Martin del Potro and David Goffin advancing Wednesday at the Swiss Indoors Basel. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com. PPR/Kurt Schorrer photo.
Follow all the latest off-court action on MyATP! Download the app for iPhone or Android and visit MyATP.com. Swiss Indoors Basel – Basel, Switzerland Benoit Paire took some time off ahead of his second-round clash against Roger Federer at the Swiss Indoors Basel. The Frenchman visited the “Läckerli House” in Basel’s old town and prepared the famous cookie specialty. The Basler Läckerli is a traditional hard, spice biscuit made of honey, hazelnuts, almonds, candied peel and Kirsch. After a nice walk through the old town, Paire arrived at the shop and helped bake some Läckerli. “This is a very nice experience. The biscuits are very tasty and it was fun to prepare them. It’s not easy, almost more difficult than...
Two-time champion Juan Martin del Potro won his fifth consecutive match on Wednesday at the Swiss Indoors Basel, beating Portugal's Joao Sousa 6-1, 4-6, 6-1. The Intrum Stockholm Open champion (d. Dimitrov) won 83 per cent of his first-serve points and saved both break points faced in the third set. “I think I dominated most of the match but in the second set I played worse than in the first and the third sets. He broke me at 4-all and then he closed the set. But in the end I started to play better as I did in the first one and I'm looking forward to playing better the whole match tomorrow,” del Potro said. “I need to improve my...
