Roger Brennwald and the Swiss Indoors in Basel host one of the largest indoor tournaments in Europe. He is also thinking about the time after the career of his top star Roger Federer.
It was not always all vain delight between Roger Federer and Roger Brennwald, head of the Basel tournament Roger Brennwald, in recent years, but meanwhile the two Swiss have long since got together again, knowing what they have in common: Brennwald, the world’s strongest driving horse in tennis, Federer his home tournament, in which he is aiming for his eighth title this year. And that is constantly working on improvements.
We have extreme problems every year,”Brennwald explained to the Aargauer Zeitung:” Once it’s the players, then the TV stations, the sponsors and the authorities.”In the coming months, the grandstands for the Center Court are to be expanded to a capacity of 10,000 spectators – the new name” Roger Federer Arena “, which will be appropriately named” Roger Federer Arena “.
And possibly also a further appreciation of the tournament, Basel is always happy to get involved in discussions about the creation of a 750 category.
In 2017, however, there is still a maximum of 500 points to play, Roger Federer has made a confident start against Frances Tiafoe. Rafael Nadal canceled at short notice, Marin Cilic is nominally the biggest contender of the local heroine:”I don’t really want to compare the Swiss Indoors with Roger,” says Brennwald,”but we share the same values: quality and consistency over a long period of time.”
Roger Brennwald also knows that even the career of his top star is finite,”Federer has set new standards. We don’t know what will happen after that. Maybe there is a person who just falls out of the sky and reinvents tennis. And maybe that’s a Swiss. We just have to think positively, because for us the Swiss Indoors are a success story.”
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