Fed-8 beats Juan Martin Del Potro to win the Swiss Indoors
and close the gap on world number one Rafael Nadal.

Federer's 6-7(5-7)  6-4  6-3 win moves him within 1,460 points of the Spaniard
ahead of next week's Paris Masters, the final regular-season event.

The 36-year-old claimed an eighth crown in Basel and his seventh title of 2017
and now has 95 career titles, with Jimmy Connors leading the all-time list on 109.

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