Felix Auger-Aliassime won his third straight title in October, beating Holger Rune 6-3, 7-5 in the Swiss Indoors final.
Auger-Aliassime went through his five matches at Basel without dropping serve, and he saved all three break points Rune had.
The ninth-ranked Auger-Aliassime added the Basel title to wins in the last two weeks at Florence, Italy, and Antwerp, Belgium. He extended his winning streak to 13 matches.
The 22-year-old Canadian shares the same Aug. 8 birthday with Swiss great Roger Federer who had intended to return to tournament play at his hometown event. Federer announced his retirement last month at age 41 because of persistent knee injuries.
“I actually thought about him this morning, and thought how cool it would be if I win here, where he won 10 times," Auger-Aliassime said of Federer.
Every winner of the Swiss Indoors from 2006 up to this edition also has a U.S. Open title. The others are Novak Djokovic, Juan Martin del Potro — who both had to beat Federer in their finals — and Marin Cilic.
“I'm very far from that, but it's so cool to have my name with all these great champions at this prestigious tournament,” said Auger-Aliassime, who beat the current US Open champion, top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz, on Saturday in the semifinals.