Catella Swedish Open:
9 - 15 July 2007

After the eventfull Wimbledon, traditionaly Robin is taking on another clay tournemant - his home Swedish Open. He had success there in the previous years, including a semifinal in 2004. This year he is seeded sixth and started against Simone Bolelli. He was challenged only in the beginning, but still managed to break midway through the opening set. From there on he had no problems to break twice more in the second set.
The second round was more tough as Soderling had to overcome the claycourt specialist Fernando Verdasco. The Swede went ahead early in the opening set before serving it comfortably out. But in the second his serve was not so steady and he got broken three times, last one when he was serving to stay in the set. Verdasco won 7-5 and leveled the match.
He also broke Robin in the beginning of the third set, bit this time Soderling broke back and held serve until the end of the set. In the decisive tiebreak the Swede went ahead and even though Verdasco leveled at 4-4, Robin got to a 7-4 win and a place in the quarterfinals in Bastad for third time in his career.

Robin didn't play well enough in the next round, where he faced the former winner here Carlos Moya. His serve failed him at the big points and was unable to save any of the three breakpoints he faced. On the other side the Spaniard defended well and saved all five chances for break for Robin.

Catella Swedish Open Bastad, Sweden Surface: Clay Status: International Series Prize Money: €353,450 Draw Size: 32 Winner: (2)David Ferrer Finalist: Nicolas Almagro Robin Soderling this year: Quarterfinal Lost to (4)Carlos Moya 2-6, 4-6 Defending Champion: (2)Tommy Robredo Last Year's finalist: (1)Nikolay Davydenko Robin Soderling last year: Quarterfinal Lost to Agustin Calleri (ARG) 4-6, 4-6 Seeded players: 1. Tommy Robredo 2. David Ferrer 3. Jarkko Nieminen 4. Carlos Moya 5. Filppo Volandri 6. Robin Soderling 7. Juan Monaco 8. Jonas Bjorkman cut: Federico Luzzi - 114

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