The following are the seeded players and how they fared
at the 2009 Davidoff Swiss Indoors Basel in Basel:

    MEN                                        STATUS
    ---                                        ------
 1. Roger Federer, Switzerland                 Advanced to Second Round
 2. Novak Djokovic, Serbia                     Advanced to Round 2
 3. Fernando Gonzalez, Chile                   First Round
 4. Marin Cilic, Croatia                       First Round
 5. Radek Stepanek, Czech Republic             Advanced to Second Round
 6. Stanislas Wawrinka, Switzerland            First Round
 7. James Blake, United States                 First Round
 8. Philipp Kohlschreiber, Germany             OUT - First Round (Chiudinelli)