Roger Federer has defeated his greatest rival Rafael Nadal to claim his seventh Swiss Indoors and 88th career title in Basel.
This is their first final in more than two years. They last played a final, at the the 2013 Rome Masters was the last event that featured a Nadal-Federer final, which the Spaniard won in two sets. The previous meeting was in January 2014, when Nadal won an Australian Open semifinal in three straight sets.