The last professional match played by Robin Soderling was against David Ferrer of Spain a couple of years back. That was the final of the Swedish Open and Soderling had won that in the straight sets by 6-2, 6-2. That was the fourth title won by Soderling that year.
2011 had been a fabulous year for Soderling till that time. He had won 38 out of the 47 matches that year and was at the 5th position in the world rankings.
Since then, Soderling has been out of action. He had withdrawn his name from the Cincinnati Open 2011 saying that he was suffering from a minor wrist injury. He had assured his fans that he would be back soon. But, that didn’t happen. Soderling missed a few tournaments and then, just before the US Open 2011, the news came in that Soderling was suffering from Mononucleosis.
In Mononucleosis, a person’s WBCs get damaged and that results in extreme tiredness.
Towards the end of the year 2011, Soderling announced that he would not be able to make a comeback in the initial parts of the 2012 season.
In July 2012, Soderling’s name was eliminated from the world rankings because he had not played a professional match since 1 year. The only good news for Soderling in 2012 was that his wife gave birth to a son.
In one of his interviews in November last year, Soderling had said that he was not too far away from returning to tennis arena and he would probably be making his comeback in February 2013. But, that hasn’t happened. It’s the end of March now and Soderling is still out.
Soderling is currently 28 years of age and will become 29 in August this year.
Robin Soderling’s compatriot, Sofia Arvidsson, has been defeated by Alize Cornet of France in the first round of Open GDF Suez. Cornet won the match by 6-3, 4-6, 6-0.
This was a fine performance by Cornet. She put up a fantastic display of power game and outsmarted her opponent. It took her 103 minutes to make her way into the second round.
This was the fourth match between these two players. The previous three matches were won by Arvidsson. So, this was Cornet’s first victory over Arvidsson.
Cornet got a blistering start in the match. She broke her opponent’s serve in the 2nd and the 4th game of the opening set and was off to a lead of 5-0. But, she couldn’t finish the set in a hurry as Arvidsson broke her serve in the 6th game and won three consecutive games to reduce the lead to 3-5. The Swedish player needed one more serve break to equalize the scores, but, that didn’t happen. Cornet served out the 9th game and won the first set.
Cornet started the second set with a serve break in the opening game. But, she couldn’t capitalize on that lead. She dropped her serve in the fourth game and the scores were levelled at 2-2 at the end of the 4th game.
Arvidsson got two more breakthroughs in the 8th and the 10th game and won the second set by 6-4.
In the third set, Cornet absolutely demolished Arvidsson. With three successive serve breaks, the Frenchwoman finished off the set in a hurry.
In the next match, Cornet will take on the winner of the match between Lourdes Dominguez Lino of Spain and Lucie Safarova of Czech Republic. The match between Safarova and Lino will be played on Tuesday.
Robin Soderling’s compatriot, Sofia Arvidsson, has defeated Samantha Stosur of Australia in her opening match in the Brisbane International tennis tournament. Arvidsson won the match in the straight sets by 7-6(7-4), 7-5.
This was an upset as Stosur was higher in rankings than Arvidsson and the Australian superstar was expected to walk away with a win. But, that wasn’t the case to be. Arvidsson played with a lot of determination and stunned Stosur.
This was the fifth match between these two players and this was only the second time that Arvidsson defeated Stosur.
In the first six games of the opening set, both the players held their service and the scores were levelled at 3-3 at that stage. Arvidsson gave Stosur the first blow in the seventh game and then, served out the following game to take a lead of 5-3.
But, after that, Stosur bounced back. She held her service in the ninth game and then, managed to sneak a breakthrough in the next game to level the scores.
Stosur got trailed again when she played a flurry of loose ground strokes and allowed Arvidsson to break her service in the 11th game. But, the Australian no. 1 female player managed to take the set into the tie breaker with a breakthrough in the 12th game.
In the tie breaker, Stosur’s inconsistency proved to be costly for her and she lost the first set.
In the second set, the first 11 games went with the serve and Arvidsson was ahead by 6-5 at the end of the 11th game. The set seemed to be going towards a tie breaker, but, Stosur wasn’t able to serve out the 12th game. Her service was broken and the match got finished.
In her next match, Arvidsson will take on Sloane Stephens of USA.
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