TIL Desk Sports/ Fourth seed Juan Martin del Potro started his bid for a third Swiss Indoors title by outlasting Portugal’s Joao Sousa 6-1, 4-6, 6-1. The injury-plagued Argentinian lifted the Basel trophy in 2012 and 2013 – beating home favourite and eight-time winner Roger Federer in both of those finals.
Del Potro, who only started his 2017 season in late February after his latest wrist injury, is making a late charge for a spot at next month’s ATP Finals in London after winning the Stockholm Open last weekend.
If Pablo Carreno Busta loses his second-round match in Vienna on Friday against Del Potro’s fellow Argentine Diego Schwartzman, the South American would move into the eighth and final qualifying spot for the year-end tournament.
Third seed David Goffin, who stands provisional eighth in the rae to London, kept his hopes alive by beating Korean Chung Hyeon 6-4, 6-1. Del Potro wasted no time in getting on top of the 60th- ranked Sousa, winning the first six points and breaking three times en route to the opening set.
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