50th Anniversary of Swiss Open Features No Federer, Wawrinka; ATP Preview
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J.Safra Sarasin Swiss Open Gstaad
GSTAAD, Switzerland; surface: clay
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Seeds: David Goffin, Roberto Bautista Agut, Feliciano Lopez, Fabio Fognini, Paolo Lorenzi, Robin Haase, Dusan Lajovic, Joao Sousa
Floaters: Ernests Gulbis, Mikhail Youzhny, Dustin Brown
Notes: The 50th edition of the tournament features the No. 14 Goffin as the top seed, and no Swiss players among the seeds…
Apparently no appearance money to attract Swiss legends Roger Federer or Stan Wawrinka, so the best local fans get is No. 100-ranked Finn-turned-Swiss Henri Laaksonen…
(7) Lajovic starts against Brown who he is 0-1 against…
Wildcards were awarded to Swiss Antoine Bellier and Marco Chiudinelli, and the mercurial Fabio Fognini…
(1) Goffin could start with a first-time meeting against Russian veteran Mikhail Youzhny…
Withdrawing from the field were Jeremy Chardy, Marius Copil and Viktor Troicki…
F-Lo beat Haase in last year’s final…
Former champs in the field are F-Lo (2016), Youzhny (2013), and Thomaz Bellucci (2012,’09).
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