( CNN ) -- Home favorite Roger Federer is through to the second round of the Swiss Indoors tournament in Basel after a straight sets victory over Italian Potito Starace on Monday . Third seed Federer , a four-time winner of the tournament , will now face either Brazilian Thomas Bellucci or Jarkko Nieminen of Finland after securing a 7-6 ( 7-3 ) 6-4 success against his world ranked 54th opponent -- who is known more as a clay-court specialist . Federer , who is behind Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray in the seedings for the event , has not competed since playing for Switzerland in the Davis Cup in September , because of a succession of niggling injuries . And although he has won only one ATP Tour event in 2011 , in Doha in the first week of the year , world number four Federer has reached the quarterfinals in 11 of the 13 tournaments he has played . `` My focus now is well at Basel -- and the next round is my next priority , '' Federer told reporters . `` Last year I won here and in London and also had match points in the Paris semis . `` I know I can play well at the end of the season . If I 'm going to make a ranking move , that 's what it 's going to take , '' he added . There was a surprise in Monday 's other match , with eighth-seeded Serb Viktor Troicki going down 4-6 7-6 6-2 to 2005 runner-up Marcos Baghdatis in a marathon match lasting just 15 minutes short of three hours . Baghdatis had also beaten Troicki in the semifinals of the Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur last month . Meanwhile , in the Valencia Open in Spain , Russian Nikolay Davydenko continued his comeback from injury with a superb 6-4 4-6 6-3 win over fifth seed Gilles Simon of France . The defeat almost certainly ends Simon 's hopes of reaches the ATP World Tour Finals in London . He currently lies 12th in the standings with only the top eight qualifying . Davydenko will next meet Simon 's compatriot , Nicolas Mahut who beat Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 7-6 ( 7-5 ) 6-2 , in the last 16 .
Roger Federer begins the Swiss Indoors tournament with victory over Potito Starace . the ATP World Tour Finals is seeded four in France behind Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray . Eighth -seeded Serb Viktor Troicki is beaten in three sets by Novak Djokovic .