Gerry Weber Open:
11 - 17 June 2007

The grass season this year for Robin will consist of two tournaments. And the first one is the traditional Gerry Weber Open in Halle.
In the opener he had to dig deep against the Austrian Stefan Koubek. The opening set was going game for game and Robin didn't face a breakpoint right untill the last game. He lost serve at 5-5 and Koubek served the set out.
But the Swede's serve was working well and it was a matter of time for him to get back in the match. He did this with a good second set, breaking twice, to have serving advantage in the final set. And it proved handy. After he saved five breakpoints in the beginning of the set, he levelled the game again and broke right when he needed to - when Koubek was serving to stay in the match.
In the next round however the match was going the opposite direction. Robin went through the opening set without having many chances, but did well in the tiebreak to finally win it on his fourth setpoint. And it looked as he had Baghdatis, as he broke right at the start of the second set. But just to be broken back for 3-3 and then again at the end of the set.
And in the final set he started as in the previous - with a break and a 2-0 lead. Just to be broken back and then immediately again to trail 2-4. After for the Cypriot it was just a matter of serving the match out, which he promptly did.

Gerry Weber Open Halle, Germany Surface: Grass Status: International Series Prize Money: €680,250 Draw Size: 32 Winner: (4)Tomas Berdych Finalist: (8)Marcos Baghdatis Robin Soderling this year: Last 16 Lost to (8)Marcos Baghdatis Defending Champion: (1)Roger Federer Last Year's finalist: (5)Tomas Berdych Robin Soderling last year: Quarterfinal Lost to (6)Tommy Haas 5-7, 4-6 Seeded players: 1. Roger Federer 2. Nikolay Davydenko 3. James Blake 4. Tomas Berdych 5. David Nalbandian 6. Richard Gasquet 7. Mikhail Youzhny 8. Marcos Baghdatis cut: Teimuraz Gabashvili - 73

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