Chris Eubanks recounts latest travel saga from Stockholm to Basel, by way of Munich

While Chris Eubanks' 2023 on the tennis court has been full of breakthrough milestones, his worldwide travel has been a case of Murphy's law: Anything that can gone wrong, has gone wrong for the big American this year.

In January, Eubanks famously regaled his social media followers with the harrowing journey he took from Pune, India to Auckland, New Zealand at the start of the season, and now, at the season's end, he found himself embroiled in another—this time seeking to get to Basel, Switzerland from Stockholm, Sweden.

After a first-round loss to eventual finalist Pavel Kotov in Stockholm, Eubanks had hoped to fly from Stockholm to Munich with a connecting flight onto Basel, but a wrench was thrown into his plans when he was informed that nearly all flights into Basel were canceled Friday as a result of a bomb threat at the airport.

"The airline agent gave us two options," Eubanks wrote on X, the platform formerly called Twitter. "Spend the night in Munich and fly to Basel in the morning OR fly from Munich to Frankfurt then take a train to Basel last night.

"I wanted to have an extra full day in Basel to prepare so I chose option #2. That’s when things went bad."

While he had an easy flight to Frankfurt, the ensuing train ride was anything but, and left Eubanks exhausted, frustrated and eventually, he discovered, short one piece of luggage. The American endured multiple train delays, boarding the train in the neighborhood of 11 p.m. local time.

After the three-hour trip, Eubanks went to collect his bags from the designated storage area in his car, only to realize that one was now missing.

"Now I am without a very important piece of luggage for the next two weeks in Europe and there’s not much I can do about it," he wrote. "Another example of the not so glamorous side of pro tennis."

Unfortunately for Eubanks, he was unable to shake off his weekend adversity and lost to Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff in the first round of the Swiss Indoors in Basel, 7-6(7), 6-4, despite having a set point in the first set.