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Robin Soderling Profile |
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Birth Date: August 14, 1984
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Birth Place: Tibro, Sweden
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Birth Name: Robin Bo Carl Soderling
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Height: 6'4"
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Biography |
Robin Söderling is a professional tennis player from Sweden
who is ranked #12 in the ATP rankings as of June 8, 2009.
Söderling is the first and only tennis player to defeat
Rafael Nadal in the French Open. Though he would go on to
lose in the final to Roger Federer, he completed the
strongest performance in a Grand Slam event of his career.
Currently he is the only Swede in the top 100 in the ATP
rankings. Söderling is currently residing in Monte Carlo,
Monaco.
Söderling began playing tennis at the age of five. Robin
Söderling made his first steps in international tennis in
November 1998 in Luxembourg, when at the age of 14 he played
his first official junior tournament, losing the opening
match to Fred Hemmes Jr. In his first full year in the
junior tour (2000), he achieved four tournament victories
and in 2001 attained three more titles in the juniors
including the Orange Bowl. In the same year Söderling
achieved fourth place in the year-end ranking and played in
his very first ATP tournament in Stockholm, winning his
first match against Ramón Delgado. |
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since July 8, 2009