Pacific Life Open:
9 - 19 April 2005
Robin Soderling is seeded in the Indian Wells
tournament this year. He skipped the opening round and entered directly in
the second against the big-serving Italian Daniele Bracciali. The match was
never in doubt, as Robin was always on top of Bracciali. The Italian won just
three points on Robin's serve in the opening set and the 6-3 result was not
a clear representation of the lead Soderling had.
He started great also in the second set, breaking Bracciali, but was broken-back
this time. But at 4-4 the Swede got three breakpoints and needed just the first
of them to serve for the match. Which Robin promptly did for a two-set victory
in just over an hour.
In the next round he met the Australian Open finalist Fernando Gonzalez. In the opening set there was not a single breakpoint. But in the tiebreak Soderling was behind all the time and lost it 4-7. In the second set the Chilean broke only for Soderling to break back and force a tiebreak after saving a matchpoint at 5-6. But this time it was even more one-sided as Gonzalez went 5-1 up to finally win 7-2 after an hour and 50 minutes of play.
| R96 |
bye |
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| R64 |
W |
Daniele Bracciali (ITA) |
6-3, 6-4 |
| R32 |
L |
(5)Fernando Gonzalez (CHI) |
6-7(4), 6-7(2) |
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Pacific Life Open
Indian Wells, California
Surface: Hard
Status: Tennis Masters Series
Prize Money: $3,285,000
Draw Size: 96
Winner: (2)Rafael Nadal
Finalist: (12)Novak Djokovic
Robin Soderling this year: Third Round
Lost to
Fernando Gonzalez
Defending Champion: (1)Roger Federer
Last Year's finalist: (12)James Blake
Robin Soderling last year: Third round
Lost to
(24)Igor Andreev
Seeded players:
1. Roger Federer
2. Rafael Nadal
3. Andy Roddick
4. Nikolay Davydenko
5. Fernando Gonzalez
6. James Blake
7. Tommy Robredo
8. Ivan Ljubicic
9. Tommy Haas
10. David Nalbandian
11. Tomas Berdych
12. Novak Djokovic
13. Andy Murray
14. David Ferrer
15. Richard Gasquet
16. Mikhail Youzhny
17. Marcos Baghdatis
18. Jarkko Nieminen
19. Lleyton Hewitt
20. Dmitry Tursunov
21. Mardy Fish
22. Juan Carlos Ferrero
23. Marat Safin
24. Dominik Hrbaty
25. Radek Stepanek
26. Robin Soderling
27. Jurgen Melzer
28. Agustin Calleri
29. Xavier Malisse
30. Juan Ignacio Chela
31. Nicolas Almagro
32. Fernando Verdasco
cut: Frank Dancevic - 88 |
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