Tennis: Soderling set for Estoril debut

ESTROIL: Robin Soderling will hope to put his clay season right after losing his opening match on the surface last week, with the Swede making his debut at the Estoril Open as top seed.

Soderling heads a field which includes Fernando Verdasco as second seed, ahead of the French pair of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gilles Simon on third and fourth respectively. Soderling arrived from Barcelona where he was upset as third-seed in his opening match by Croatian Ivan Dodig who made the semi-finals before losing to Rafael Nadal.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 25^th, 2011.