Basel

And Shelton hires the coach that sent Carlos into the stratosphere.

Meanwhile, Vachero conquers Basel.

Caboli withdraws from Paris.

and four places in Turin are still up for grabs and Novak Djokovic has a brutal draw to get his way through.

I think that Carlos is going to get multiple titles on indoor hardcourt.

Somebody else who's got a title on indoor hardcourt as well, I'd He seemed to have been out of the limelight since he won a huge title last year.

It was Valentine Vachero winning in Basel.

And what a crazy thing to happen.

So, if we can fool others, but we can't fool God, what are we to do about the evil that dwells in our hearts? Well, let's turn to Romans chapter 2, verse 25, and find out about the benefits of circumcision of the heart.

During the years of my graduate study, my wife and I lived in Basel, Switzerland, and during those years we became acquainted with the annual Swiss celebration known as Fasnacht.

Fasnacht was the Swiss equivalent of the Mardi Gras, but with some differences.

Mardi Gras means, as I'm sure you know, Fat Tuesday.

Lent always begins on a Wednesday.

So Mardi Gras is Fat Tuesday because that's what you do before you have to be careful about Now, Fasnacht was like Lent except for this.

Basel was a Protestant city.

Mardi Gras tends to be observed in Catholic areas.

Somebody great to see back is Holger Rune.

It's really great to see him back after the Achilles tear, back playing some really good tennis, winning some great matches, and he went down to Vacheron, who, guess what, wins the tournament in Basel.

So...

That was an incredible tournament for him in general as well.

Certainly, probably not what people expected out of him, but he had some great wins and Djokovic loses and, you know, Struff has a great...

I mean, it was just...

There were so many good matches this week in both Basel and Vienna.

But I was really happy to see Rune back.

Shelton snaps up Ferrero to join coaching team.

And Stan the Man retires from tennis after defeat in Basel.

Kim, Chris, today is the 2nd of November and we are here to catch up on the week in tennis at Tennis Weekly HQ.

On today's episode, we are discussing Carlos Alcaraz maintaining his perfect record in 500 level events this season, winning in Vienna.

We want everyone at the top competing all the time, but that's not always feasible.

I've got a question for you, though.

Let's move on to the Basel tournament that happened last week.

Did either of you expect Valentin Vashiro to win another ATP Tour title after he picked up the Shanghai Masters last year? I mean, were you expecting him to sort of fade into obscurity after that sort of surprise win? I mean, I

Just watch Ben Shelton.

If he can generate break points, it's not, it's not likely the courts are all that fast, right? Like he went to Basel last week and he didn't break serve until his 49th return game of the tournament.

when he was a double breakdown.

Now, it was huge, because he ended up getting the choke from Kim, and then Kim ended up closing it out anyway.

Yeah, if you're going to – I'll definitely have the over to go with this just because the Rinderknecht return game has been so poor.

But I'm not all that unimpressed.

I know he took a little while off after the U.S. Open and Davis Cup and just came back in Basel, but – I'm not all that unimpressed with his play.

He choked against Sidon DeLoe Jr. in Cincy.

That is a smart thing to do, reasoned from that kind of class.

One of my favorite examples of how these people work, but how smart they also are, is the Bank for International Settlement in Basel, the BIS.

That thing, by its very setup, is basically a nation.

It is indestructible, even if you bombed the building itself.

A smaller camp in Porto was also cleared.

In Switzerland, several hundred people gathered at unsanctioned demonstrations in Zurich and Basel on Saturday night under the slogan, We've Had Enough in Switzerland Too.

Organizers' online posts cited rising rents, climbing health insurance premiums, and what they called a growing surveillance state.

Swiss law requires residents to buy health insurance, so premium increases hit every household.

In Zurich, protesters set fire to rubbish bins, e-bikes, and a car, and police used water cannon, tear gas, and rubber bullets against people throwing fireworks, bottles, and stones.

Police arrested two Swiss men, aged 19 and 21, who were gathering objects at a construction site.

In Basel, about 150 people marched through the city center and set barricades on fire, which halted public transport.

In Albania, protesters demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama over alleged corruption.

Thanks to the relatively recent technology of the printing press, new copies could be distributed across a vast area in weeks rather than months or years.

Before 1517 was over, Luther's work was appearing in Leipzig, Nuremberg, and even Basel down in Switzerland.

However, Luther wasn't the one spreading it.

The theses seemed to have touched a nerve, one that compelled people to make their own copies.