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

    Also
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    Marco Chiudinelli, Switzerland             OUT - Semi Finals (Federer)