BASEL. The Swiss Indoors title will be decided on Sunday afternoon at St. Jakobshalle, and neither singles finalist is Swiss. Eighth seed Jiri Lehecka of the Czech Republic plays Valentin Vacherot of Monaco, not before 3.30pm. The doubles final, at 1pm, does have a Swiss pair in it: wild cards Henry Bernet and Dominic Stricker against Theo Arribage and Albano Olivetti.
Vacherot reached his first final of 2026, and the second of his career, by beating sixth seed Taylor Fritz 7-6 (5), 6-3 on Saturday. His only previous title match was the Shanghai Masters, which he won last year. Lehecka’s semi-final was the longer night. He lost the first set to Jan-Lennard Struff and then won 7-5, 6-4, saving a match point on the way. Struff had put Novak Djokovic out of the tournament on Thursday. That run ended one match short of the final.
The Swiss week, and where it stopped
The home interest had already had its night. Jerome Kym, a wild card ranked outside the top 200, beat top seed Ben Shelton on Thursday and lost in the quarter-finals to Lehecka, 6-4, 6-2. That is the Swiss singles story of this Swiss Indoors: a shock, then a straight-sets end against the man who now plays for the trophy. Bernet and Stricker carried the flag further. On Saturday they beat the top-seeded German pair Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz 6-4, 6-4 to reach the doubles final.
Lehecka and Vacherot have split their two previous meetings. The more recent one went to Lehecka, 6-4, 6-2, in the semi-finals of the Japan Open earlier this year. Vacherot is the man who has taken the bigger names out of this particular draw: third seed Rafael Jodar in three sets, then Fritz without dropping a set in the semi-final. Fritz himself had come through when second seed Arthur Fils retired in the quarter-finals.
What Sunday is worth
An ATP 500 title in Basel is ranking points, prize money and a line on a season that, for Vacherot, has so far contained one final. For Lehecka it is a chance to add the indoor title to a week in which he was the eighth seed and is now the last seed standing in the singles. Shelton, Djokovic, Fils and Fritz are all out. The hall is not.
Play starts with the doubles. If Bernet and Stricker win, Sunday has a Swiss champion even if the singles final, later in the afternoon, is between Monaco and the Czech Republic. The singles match is the one the week was built around. It has not been played. This report stops at the order of play.