ATP roundup: Federer, qualifier Copil reach Basel final
Romanian qualifer Marius Copil stunned German second seed Alexander Zverev 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-4 on Saturday to advance to the finals at the Swiss Indoors Basel in Switzerland. It’s the second final of the year for Copil. If he wins, he’ll become the ATP’s 14th first-time winner in 2018; the 13 current first-time winners already set a record. To achieve that, however, he’ll have to face top-seeded Roger Federer, who breezed past seventh-seeded Russian Daniil Medvedev 6-1, 6-4 in the other semifinal. Federer, the eight-time champion and hometown hero, needed just 64...
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