Mike Bryan and Edouard Roger-Vasselin advanced to their second tour-level final of the season on Saturday, overcoming top seeds Oliver Marach and Mate Pavic 6-4, 6-7(2), 10-7 at the Erste Bank Open 500.

In just their second tournament appearance as a team, Bryan and Roger-Vasselin won 82 per cent of first-serve points and captured 14 of 24 second-serve return points to advance after one hour and 36 minutes. On their team debut at the Citi Open in August, the American-French duo posted a runner-up finish after falling in a Match Tie-break to Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares.

Marach and Pavic, who lead the ATP Doubles Race To London, were aiming to reach their 10th tour-level championship match of the season (4-5). The Austrian-Croatian duo won its first 17 matches of the year, picking up trophies in Doha, Auckland and at the Australian Open. Marach and Pavic lifted their most recent trophy at the Banque Eric Sturdza Geneva Open in May.

Bryan and Roger-Vasselin will meet Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski for the title. The British duo booked its spot in the championship match on Friday, ending Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo’s 10-match winning streak with a comeback 2-6, 6-3, 10-8 triumph.

Zverev Brothers Advance In Basel
Despite falling in the singles semi-finals, Alexander Zverev kept his hopes of lifting silverware at the Swiss Indoors Basel alive on Saturday evening. The 21-year-old combined with brother Mischa Zverev to defeat Divij Sharan and Artem Sitak 6-1, 6-3. The German duo progressed to its sixth tour-level championship match (1-4) after 59 minutes. The brothers saved all five break points they faced en route to victory.

The Gerry Weber Open finalists (l. to Kubot/Melo) will face Dominic Inglot and Franko Skugor in Sunday’s final. Inglot and Skugor defeated Julio Peralta and Horacio Zeballos 5-7, 6-3, 10-6, firing 15 aces to advance after 86 minutes. The British-Croatian duo is undefeated in tour-level finals (2-0), following victories earlier this season in Budapest and s’Hertogenbosch.

If there’s anything that should not surprise you during an ATP World Tour season, it’s Roger Federer reaching the final at the Swiss Indoors Basel.

Federer advanced to the championship match of his hometown tournament for the 14th time on Saturday, racing past in-form Daniil Medvedev 6-1, 6-4 in just 65 minutes. The Swiss has made the final in Basel in 12 straight appearance, improving his record in semi-finals at the tournament to 14-1, with his only loss coming in 2002 against David Nalbandian.

The 37-year-old is not only on the verge of his ninth Basel triumph, but he can lift his 99th tour-level trophy. Federer is second on the all-time singles titles list, trailing only Jimmy Connors, who was victorious 109 times in his career.

In the final, Federer will face surprise finalist Marius Copil, who earned his second Top 10 win of the week with a stunning three-set victory against second seed Alexander Zverev in the semi-finals. It is the Romanian’s second ATP World Tour final, after finishing runner-up in Sofia earlier this year.

In 150 tour-level finals, Federer has never lost to someone ranked as low as Copil, who is currently World No. 93. The Swiss fell in championship matches to players ranked No. 87 twice, against Davide Sanguinetti at Milan in 2002 and Tommy Haas at Halle in 2012. Only one Basel champion — Jiri Hrebec, who captured the title in the tournament’s first edition in 1975 — did not break into the Top 10 in his career.