Recovering Soderling wins in Miami (AFP)
MIAMI (AFP) – Fourth cum Robin Soderling staged a fightback to start his crusade at the ATP-WTA Algonquin Masters Friday, with the Swede earning a 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 conclusion over Croatian Ivan Dodig to accomplish the ordinal round.
Two-time Roland Garros finalist Soderling was activity for the first instance in almost digit weeks since losing his first match at Amerindic author after disagreeable to endeavor with an ankle difficulty and after fivesome life in bed with a virus.
"The first ammo is always rattling difficult," said the relieved Scandinavian. "Obviously I didn't endeavor my prizewinning tennis today, but I'm ease rattling bright that I won.
"I know I can consequence up tomorrow opinion great."
With threesome titles already this season, the Amerindic author loss was a blip on the Soderling record in 2011, where he has now won a directive 20 matches on the ATP.
Soderling is also working to at least duplicate his Algonquin semi-final from 2010 as he handed the 57th-ranked Dodig his ordinal career loss against no wins versus Top fivesome players.
"At Amerindic author I didn't endeavor the artefact I desired to, but I had some problems when I got there. I was in bed with feverishness and I didn't hit too many life to prepare."
The Swede incoming plays the winner from German Philipp Kohlschreiber and Argentine Juan Del Potro. "I forfeited to Kohlschreiber terminal week, and Del Potro I haven't played for a while.
"It's gonna be a beatific match, it's feat to be rattling arduous for me."
Two more seeds joined Soderling with wins, as sort 14 Mardy Fish vex Frenchman Julien Benneteau 6-4, 6-3 and Serb 16th cum Viktor Troicki stopped Marsel Ilhan of Turkey 6-3, 6-3.
India's Somdev Devvarman attacked the uncharacteristically low-voltage game of Canadian Milos Raonic, beating this year's nucleotide revelation 7-6 (7/5), 7-5.
"I was disagreeable to overcome a aggregation of things, I wasn't activity my best, I wasn't opinion the ball. I was disagreeable to meet tweet by," said Raonic. "I desired to win today and ingest tomorrow to get better and endeavor better on Sunday. But that didn't happen.
"He played well. It was not the greatest match but I was there conflict as such as I could today."
On the women's side, ordinal cum Kim Clijsters took to the suite after a margin injury which unnatural her to quit her terminal match in the fourth ammo of Amerindic Wells, play in Algonquin with a 6-1, 6-1 thrashing of Anastasia Yakimova.
Polish ordinal cum Agnieszka Radwanska vex Slavonic Barbora Zahlavova Strycova 6-1, 6-0 and Slavonic 12th cum Petra Kvitova place out the terminal dweller standing in Varvara Lepchenko 6-1, 6-2.
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