| Switzerland’s Roger Federer kisses the trophy after winning the Swiss Indoors ATP 500 tennis tournament. |
Roger Federer has claimed his eighth Swiss Indoors title on Sunday with a 6-7 (5/7), 6-4, 6-3 final defeat of Juan Martin del Potro.
This is the 18th win for the Swiss star, who lost the finals here to Delpo in 2012 and 2013.The 19-time Grand Slam champion has now won a Tour-leading seven titles this season after beating Nadal in the Shanghai Masters final a fortnight ago.
“Congratulations to Juan Martin,” Federer said. “You’ve had a great run since the US Open (when he beat Federer in the quarter-finals) and before.
“I wish that I was able to play every week like you have, it’s going to be difficult for me in the future to do that.”
Meanwhile,the 36-year-old also kept alive the battle for the year-end No. 1 Emirates ATP Ranking, pulling to within 1,460 points of Rafael Nadal with the final ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event of the year in Paris and the Nitto ATP Finals still to go.
Federer can capture a combined 2,500 points at those two events, reports the ATP website.
Federer extended his lead in the pair’s FedEx ATP Head2Head rivalry to 18-6, capturing his fifth win in their past six matches.