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