Robin Soderling - Quarter-finals

April 1, 2010
    

R. SODERLING/M. Youzhny
 
6 1, 6 4
 
An interview with:
 
ROBIN SODERLING

THE MODERATOR:  Questions, please.

 Q.  I wanted to talk to you a little bit about Magnus Norman and what he's done for you and how he's helped you develop your game and come so much farther than you have.
 ROBIN SODERLING:  Yeah, he helped me a lot, that's for sure.  You know, Magnus has been such a good player, and he's been through everything, you know, that I'm experiencing right now.
 You know, he played those big matches.  He played a Grand Slam final.  So he was a great player, and he's definitely a great coach as well.

 Q.  His match in the final was against Kuerten?
 ROBIN SODERLING:  Yeah, French Open, yeah, 2000.

 Q.  How did you feel tonight?
 ROBIN SODERLING:  I felt okay.  I think I played really well from the back of the court.  I was moving well and didn't miss much.
 But I didn't serve quite the way I wanted to.  I think served really well the past three matches here, but today it wasn't is good.
 Hopefully I can improve on that tomorrow.

 Q.  So you'll play...
 ROBIN SODERLING:  Berdych.

 Q.  Berdych.  And your experiences with him?
 ROBIN SODERLING:  Yeah, we played, I'm not sure how many times, at least five, six times.  We always had good matches.  He's a great player.  He played really well now in the past couple of weeks.
 I think he reached the quarters in Indian Wells, and now here he beat Roger and today Fernando.  So he's definitely in good form.  I really have to play well.

 Q.  I know I'm projecting a little bit, but if you were to play Nadal in the final, can you say just a couple words to that?  There certainly is some history there.
 ROBIN SODERLING:  Well, yeah, we played a couple of times.  I won twice and lost two, three times.
 Of course he's one of the best players in the world, if not the best one right now, so it's gonna be    whoever I play, him or Andy, it's gonna be a very tough match.
 That's what you have to expect in a tournament like this.
 
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