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

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