After suffering a knee injury in the final of Shanghai tournament. Top-ranked Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the Swiss Indoors next week, denying fans a possible final against Roger Federer. Nadal says he’s taking medical advice to protect “overstressing of the (right) knee.” He says the injury affected him last week in Shanghai, where he lost the final to Federer in two sets. Federer’s win over Nadal was a fifth straight against his longtime rival. That streak started in Basel in 2015 when Federer won the final of his hometown tournament. In Nadal’s absence, the No. 2-ranked Federer will be top-seeded as he seeks an eighth Basel title.

Roger Federer shined apart world number one Rafael Nadal 6-4 6-3 to win the Shanghai Masters recently, on Sunday and register his fourth victory of the year over his Spanish rival. The Swiss world number two beat Nadal in the finals of the Australian Open and Miami Masters and in the last 16 at Indian Wells earlier this year, and never looked like losing to his long-time rival in Shanghai, firing 10 aces as he cruised to victory.

Federer, the only man who can still stop Nadal ending the year as number one, took an hour and 12 minutes to claim his sixth title of the year and his second Shanghai crown with a clinical performance.

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