Wed, 11/24/2010 - 06:05 by Prince damin
London -- World No. 2 Roger Federer and fourth-seeded Robin Soderling posted round-robin wins Tuesday at the ATP World Tour Finals in London.
Federer defeated No. 5-seeded Andy Murray 6-4, 6-2 and is 2-0 in Group B play while the No. 5-seeded Murray fell to 1-1. Soderling is also 1-1 after a 7-5, 7-5 win over seventh-seeded David Ferrer, who dropped to 0-2.
Federer lost only eight points in nine service games in the win over Murray. He broke Murray's serve at love in the third game of the first set and grabbed the advantage with a break to end a lengthy game at the beginning of the second set.
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Mon, 11/15/2010 - 22:23 by Prince damin
London -- Robin Soderling used a Paris Masters victory to move to his highest world ranking in men's tennis, No. 4.
Soderling defeated Gael Monfils in Sunday's final in Paris. The 1,000 rankings points for the title boosted Soderling's total to 5,380 points and edged him past Andy Murray, who was beaten by Monfils in the quarters and has 5,360.
That puts Soderling at No. 4, a position he's never before attained, and he's less than 300 points behind No. 3 Novak Djokovic heading into the ATP World Tour Finals next week in London.
Murray fell to fifth in the rankings. He's been ranked lower than fourth just four weeks since August 2008.
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Sat, 11/06/2010 - 11:15 by Prince damin
Valencia, Spain -- No. 2-seeded Robin Soderling tore through a straight-set win Friday and into the semifinals of the Valencia Open tennis tournament in Spain.
Soderling blitzed No. 8-seeded Gael Monfils 6-3, 6-2 in 54 minutes. He won 61 percent of the points in the match and cashed in three of four break-point chances. He's dropped just 15 games over his three matches in getting to Saturday's semifinals.
Fourth-seeded David Ferrer had a tougher time in getting past Potito Starace 7-5, 6-4 in his quarterfinal. He saved both break points Starace caused but was only able to solve Starace's service game twice.
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Fri, 11/05/2010 - 07:54 by harsheeb
Valencia-- Second-seeded Robin Soderling rolled through a second-round victory Thursday at the Valencia Open 500 tennis tournament in Spain.
Soderling pasted Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-2, 6-3 in 61 minutes in moving on to the quarterfinals. He lost only eight points in nine service games and saved both break points he faced.
Gimeno-Traver had seven aces but still landed only 46 percent of his first serves. Soderling grabbed that advantage, winning 56 percent of the points off Gimeno-Traver's second serve.
Soderling will go against eighth-seeded Gael Monfils in Friday's quarterfinals. Monfils capped the day's schedule with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Stanislas Wawrinka. Monfils had four breaks of Wawrinka's serve.
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Thu, 09/09/2010 - 09:32 by Prince damin
New York -- Roger Federer reached the semifinals of the U.S. Open Wednesday and gained a measure of revenge as well with a victory over Robin Soderling.
Soderling defeated Federer in the quarterfinals of the French Open this year, ending Federer's amazing streak of 23 consecutive semifinal appearances in grand slam tournaments.
Federer came back from a break down in the third set Wednesday for a 6-4, 6-4, 7-5 victory that created a semifinal match against Novak Djokovic.
Djokovic eliminated Gael Monfils earlier in the day 7-6 (7-2), 6-1, 6-2.
Federer is seeking the 17th major title of his career. He won five straight U.S. Open crowns before losing in last year's final to Juan Martin del Potro.
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Sun, 09/05/2010 - 09:25 by Prince damin
New York -- Roger Federer, Robin Soderling and Novak Djokovic each breezed to victories Saturday and advanced to the fourth round of the U.S. Open.
No. 2 seed Federer had little trouble downing Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 at windy Ashe Stadium, needing only 1 hour, 39 minutes for the victory.
The Swiss superstar tore off 13 aces and held serve throughout the match against Mathieu while improving his career U.S. Open record to 54-5 in seeking his sixth career New York title.
No. 5 seed Soderling, meanwhile, dispatched Dutchman Thiemo de Bakker 6-2, 6-3, 6-3, to reach the Sweet 16. Soderling was helped by 35 unforced de Bakker errors. The aggressive Swede broke de Bakker's serve six times.
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Sun, 09/05/2010 - 08:35 by Prince damin
New York -- Roger Federer and Robin Soderling each breezed to second-round victories Saturday to reach the fourth round of the U.S. Open.
No. 2 seed Federer had little trouble downing Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 at windy Ashe Stadium, needing only 1 hour, 39 minutes for the victory.
The Swiss superstar tore off 13 aces and held serve throughout the match against Mathieu while improving his career U.S. Open record to 54-5 in seeking his sixth career New York title.
No. 5 seed Soderling, meanwhile, dispatched Dutchman Thiemo de Bakker 6-2, 6-3, 6-3, to reach the Sweet 16. Soderling was helped by 35 unforced de Bakker errors. The aggressive Swede broke de Bakker's serve six times.
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Wed, 08/11/2010 - 10:02 by Prince damin
Toronto -- Roger Federer, Robin Soderling and Tomas Berdych all advanced at the Rogers Cup in Toronto Tuesday with first-round wins.
Federer, who won the event in 2004 and 2006, defeated Argentine Juan Ignacio Chela 7-6 (9-7), 6-3. Federer, playing in his first tournament since losing in the quarterfinals at Wimbledon in June, raised his lifetime record against Chela to 5-0.
French Open runner-up Soderling downed Latvia's Ernests Gulbis 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in another first-round match.
Berdych, seeded seventh, breezed past Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-2, 6-4 in a 90-minute match at Rexall Centre to gain the second round.
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Sat, 07/17/2010 - 22:26 by Inderjit Singh
Bastad -- Top seed Robin Soderling and Nicolas Almagro won their Swedish Open semifinal matches Saturday, advancing to the championship match in Bastad, Sweden.
Sweden's Soderling rebounded from a rocky first set to defeat third-seeded Spaniard David Ferrer 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 on the red clay at Bastad Tennis Stadium. It was the second straight day in which Soderling dropped his first set only to bounce back for a win.
Fifth-seeded Almagro, meanwhile, had considerably less trouble with his opponent, Spanish countryman Tommy Robredo, whom he dispatched 6-1, 6-3.
Almagro, who has five career ATP tour championships, is 2-3 all-time against Soderling. However, he beat the Swedish favorite in straight sets at Madrid this year.
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Sat, 07/17/2010 - 00:02 by Pankaj Damin
Bastad, Sweden -- Top-seeded Robin Soderling survived a third-set tie-breaker Friday and advanced to the semifinals of the Swedish Open tennis tournament.
Soderling, playing in his native country, just got past Andreas Seppi 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7-5) in Friday's quarterfinals. Soderling needed to overcome a third-set service break to force the tie-breaker for a chance to win. The match took nearly 2 1/2 hours.
Soderling will go against a relatively fresh David Ferrer, the No. 3 seed, who defeated Pablo Cuevas 6-3, 6-3 in about half the time of Soderling's match. Ferrer only faced two break points, saving both.
Saturday's other semifinal will have fifth-seeded Tommy Robredo against fourth-seeded Nicolas Almagro.
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Thu, 07/15/2010 - 10:28 by Pankaj Damin
Bastad, Sweden -- Robin Soderling rolled through the third set Wednesday in taking a second-round win at the Swedish Open.
Soderling, the world No. 5 and the tournament's top seed, claimed a 6-2, 6-7 (6-8), 6-2 win over Andreas Vinciguerra. Soderling didn't face a break point in the match and had two breaks of his own in each the first and third sets.
Soderling pounded 15 aces and won 59 percent of the points in the first and third sets.
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Sun, 06/06/2010 - 11:45 by Rakhi
Paris -- In an era when there's little bad blood in men's tennis, Sunday's French Open final between Rafael Nadal and Robin Soderling is being seen as a grudge match.
Tennis observers say Nadal is still smarting from his loss to the Swede in last year's fourth round, especially after the pair clashed in 2007 at Wimbledon, when Soderling mimicked the Spaniard's stalling tactics of tugging at his shorts before service, The Telegraph reported.
The exchange between the two that year revealed ill will, the newspaper said.
"I have said hello to (Soderling) seven times to his face, and he has never said hello to me," Nadal said at the time. "I asked around the locker room; almost nobody had anything nice to say about him."
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