Overview
- Djokovic accepted a wild card to play the Swiss Indoors in Basel on Friday, Oct. 16, marking his first appearance at the event since 2011.
- He said he wants to play at the ATP Finals and added Basel to his schedule to try to earn points before the Paris Masters.
- Basel is an ATP 500 event that awards 500 ranking points to the winner, a haul that could move Djokovic from around 11th in the Race to Turin into contention for the year-end qualifying places.
- His late-season plan follows a mixed Asian swing in which he won the China Open in Beijing but lost early at the Shanghai Masters, and a postponed exhibition freed the calendar space for Basel.
- Djokovic’s return to Basel taps familiar ground—he won the tournament in 2009—and his results there and in Paris will determine whether he can displace close rivals and reach Turin.