ATP Basel: key stats to know prior to the Swiss ATP 500 tournament
ATP Basel: not a great place to be the number one seed these days!
The Basel ATP 500 tournament is one of the last events of the season in the middle of autumn, with a very strong line-up. However, in recent years, the number 1 seed has not been very successful, as we have to go back to Roger Federer in 2019 to see the tournament favourite win the title.
Canada's Félix Auger-Aliassime in 2022 and 2023 and France's Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard in 2024 defied the odds by winning in Basel, with the Frenchman not even seeded last season. Taylor Fritz, who will have the honour of being the number one seed starting this Monday, will try to prove this statistic wrong!
Focus on two-set matches
Although the world's best players regularly compete in the Basel tournament, this does not mean that the matches are necessarily long!
At the 2024 edition of the Swiss tournament, only 29% of matches went to a deciding set, while 71% were decided in two sets. This is data to consider before when following any of this week's matches in Switzerland, so you can make tennis predictions with as much information as possible.
Matches are often very close
We have just pointed out that in the last edition, only 29% of matches went to three sets. While this statistic might suggest that the matches were not close, this was not actually the case.
Last season, the Swiss tournament offered an average of nearly 24 games per match. So don't hesitate to look at the number of games played when making your predictions.
Put aside one-sided sets
In line with the close matches played on average at nearly 24 games, the last edition gave us a large number of matches where tie-breaks were needed to decide the outcome. In 2024, 23 tie-breaks were played in 31 matches. With long matches in terms of games and tie-breaks, you may find the right prediction to make every day this week in Basel.
It is also worth noting that in 2024, there were no 6-0 scores throughout the week in Switzerland. With the surface becoming faster in recent years, servers have had the advantage and breaking serve has become difficult, resulting in suspenseful set finishes almost every day!
