Joao Fonseca has won the 2025 Swiss Indoors in Basel. On Sunday, Fonseca, who was unseeded, defeated Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain in the final, 6-3, 6-4.
Fonseca had seven aces compared to four for Davidovich Fokina. Fonseca broke Davidovich Fokina three times in 13 opportunities. Another key statistic is that Davidovich Fokina only won 37% of the points on the seconds serve.
Over the past week in Basel, Davidovich Fokina was one of three seeded players Fonseca defeated. The other two were the seventh seed Jakub Mensik of the Czech Republic in the second round, and the ninth seed Denis Shapovalov of Canada in the quarterfinals. Mensik actually withdrew from his match against Fonseca because of a foot injury, and has pulled out of the 2025 Paris Masters too. Shapovalov, meanwhile was only seeded because Holger Rune of Denmark withdrew from the tournament because of a torn anterior cruciate ligament suffered at the recent Swedish Open.
The Swiss Indoors is one of two ATP 500 events that took place this past week. The other was the Austrian Open that was won by Italy’s Jannik Sinner.
This is the second ATP tournament Fonseca has won in his career. The first came at the 2025 Argentina Open, where he defeated Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina in the final, 6-4, 7-6. When Fonseca beat Cerundolo in South America, I wondered if Fonseca was tennis’s new rising star. He is only 19 years of age, and is the second youngest Swiss Indoor champion ever at 19 years, two months, and five days. When Jim Courier of the United States won the 1989 Swiss Indoors by beating Stefan Edberg of Sweden in the final, 7-6, 3-6, 2-6, 6-0, 7-5, he was only 19 years, one month and three weeks old.
