Swiss Indoors chief makes business claim after three-year deal

Roger Federer is only interested in playing tennis and is not concerned about business, according to vice president of the Swiss Indoors in Basel, Daniel Chambon. “I went down to Melbourne in Australia to finalise the negotiation with Tony Godsick (Federer’s agent),” Chambon told CNN. “Roger doesn’t talk about business. Roger is only interested in tennis and he leaves it to other people to negotiate his commitments. “It took some time, a lot of energy. We call it an organic contract meaning that we cleaned up whatever was in the past and we started anew.” He said: “Three years ago I started negotiating with Roger’s management company. “And it took us some time to figure out how best to involve Roger in the tournament long term. “When you are 35-years-old, long term is a difficult thing and Roger didn’t really know how much he wanted to play and had some issue with his back at the time. “But we found a solution that we could tie him up to the Swiss Indoors for three years and obviously if he wasn’t fit or healthy enough to play he could just pull out.”

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