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This doesn’t seem fair. While all of the other players get to practice indoors at the O2, David Ferrer and Robin Soderling have to practice on the top of a big yellow bus?
Kidding – the two took part in a publicity stunt promoting the upcoming ATP Championships (which start tomorrow) and played a “game” of [...]
As the quote says: Behind every great man, there is a great woman. The same can be said about the eight ATP World Tour finalists. Behind each one of them, there is a girlfriend, fiance or wife (or mother?). Here are the women that stand by their men through thick, thin and, for these men, [...]
SOLD! To the person (most likely from Sweden and even more likely related to Soderling) who bid $5,100!
Robin Soderling’s Art Of Tennis portrait is the first auction to end. Andy Murray, Tomas Berdych and David Ferrer are still open for bids while Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will have their portraits up for [...]
Being from America, our profanity consists of (I’ll keep it clean here) shoot, darn, crud, and, well I guess there is no clean version of the “F” word (freak?).
But recently on Twitter, mostly in relation to the British show X Factor, I’ve been seeing a lot of the word “Sod.” Now, I’m sorry if you’re [...]
Robin Soderling won his first ATP Masters 1000 title today, defeating Gael Monfils 6-1, 7-6 in the Paris Masters final. Soderling will now surpass Andy Murray as the ATP number 4-ranked player after clinching his sixth career title.
Soderling steamrolled Monfils in the first set with his powerful serve and forehand, barely giving Monfils a chance. In [...]
First semifinal of the day at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris was ATP world number 5 Robin Soderling vs. French favorite Michael Llodra. Soderling saved three match points to defeat Llodra 6-7, 7-5, 7-6, reach his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 final, and give the French crowd an amazing show.
“Today it was a great [...]
Spain’s David Ferrer defeated second-seeded Robin Soderling 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in the Semifinals at the Valencia Open 500, advancing to his fifth ATP World Tour final of the year. This win only increased his changes of qualifying for the ATP World Tour Finals (Ferrer is currently ranked 8, behind Tomas Berdych and Andy Roddick, who [...]
Yesterday, Nikolay Davydenko and others took part in Kids’ Day, today it was Robin Soderling and Daniel Gimeno-Traver’s turn.
The pair played with the children on a small court. Looked like they had fun, no matter how awkward this was (Soderling defeated Gimeno-Traver today 6-2, 6-3).
(Photos: Valencia Open)
Robin Soderling has qualified for the 2010 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, becoming the fifth singles player to qualify for this year’s event (behind Nadal, Federer, Djokovic and Murray).
“I’ve always dreamed about playing at the World Tour Finals. I had some really good memories from last year. Hopefully I can take that experience and do [...]
Here’s your weekly dose of the Roger Federer tweener, used today to defeat Stanislas Wawrinka 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.
Well, Robin Soderling took his match lying down. He played a tight first set against Florian Mayer of Germany in front of his home crowd, but ultimately lost the match 7-6, 6-1.
And here’s Florian. He’s so happy. He’ll [...]
Q: Did Venus buy all of those hats yesterday?
S. Williams: The past few days she has been in hat mode: She has been in all the foregrounds and I was in the background. She loves to shop so I was a little disappointed.
Q: So she is going to bring back a bunch of hats. What do you take back…
S. Williams: Usually something that goes on my ass (…Laughter).
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