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Federer leads Basel winners

BASEL, Switzerland (UPI) -- Basel native Roger Federer led Wednesday's winners at the men's Swiss Indoors tennis tournament at Basel, Switzerland.

Federer, the reigning three-time champion and the tournament's top seed, was an easy 6-3, 6-3 second-round winner over unseeded Andreas Seppi of Italy.

"I had to save break points today, which I didn't have to do in the first round, so I thought it was a bit tougher," Federer, also a former Basel ball boy, said while referring to a 6-3, 6-4 first-round victory against Belgium's Olivier Rochus.

Federer is playing for the first time since losing 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 to Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro at the U.S. Open final in New York in September.

Also winning Wednesday were fifth-seeded Czech Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic, sixth-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland, No. 4 seed Marin Cilic of Croatia, and Frenchmen Richard Gasquet and Jeremy Chardy.

Copyright 2009 by United Press International

This news arrived on: 11/04/2009

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