Robin Soderling def Nikolay Davydenko 6/4 6/7 6/3

One of the most bizarre matches I have ever watched...

Great tournament for Russians :o

Funny thing...last year Kolya lost his first Monte Carlo match to... Soderling :p

Congrats Soderling

Davy :sad:

Routine win for Robin, should have served it out at *5-2 40-15 in the third and even earlier in the second set.

Way to cash me in, repeat your win over Davydenko last year, and boot that prick out of the tourney. :yeah:

Match was 2 hours and 45minutes

Both had 2 aces

dobin had 3 DFs, Niko had 1

without break of serve in the 2nd set and then 8 breaks out of the 9 games in 3rd set :smash:
robin was lucky, kolya served first in the last set :devil:

the match they played here last year when soderling won was

6-3 2-6 6-4

we already have a thread for this.

Robin!!! :woohoo:

No surprise here. Davydenko must be the slowest at adapting to a new surface. I still expect him to peak in time for Hamburg and RG.

Robin :)

You suck Kolya, Well done Soderling.

Davydenko suffers from Clayitis too, I guess.

Well done Robin!

Kolya may be out of Top10 at the end of season he is playing horrible tennis right now and I don't see him defending USOpen SF or Paris TMS unless withdraws will make it really easy

Robin tried his best to choke it all away but glad he came through in the end. :)

Kolya may be out of Top10 at the end of season he is playing horrible tennis right now and I don't see him defending USOpen SF or Paris TMS unless withdraws will make it really easy

Wow, you see far :p

Robin :yeah:
I belive in you but you must play better in the tie-breaks and Top 10 is wide open :)

mycket bra gjort av robin,way to go!!!

if he faces mirniy now i think he actually won't choke but to go through to a quarter against boredo.

Robin tried his best to choke it all away but glad he came through in the end. :)

Kind of glad I didn't watch it then, Robin makes me wanna :banghead:.

Aww Koyla, hugs.

:bigclap: Good job Robin.

Koyla needs a good tournament as soon as possible.

Good for Robin that he was able to get over the choking business.

Woohoo, the Kolya Klown is sent home again. Well done, Robin. :hatoff:

Believe it or not, its the lack of hair thats causing the problem. Kolya needs to grow his hair and voila! ...We'll see him holding on to the next wimby.

Believe it or not, its the lack of hair thats causing the problem. Kolya needs to grow his hair and voila! ...We'll see him holding on to the next wimby.

You're so stupid... last year Kolya shaved his head and he won TMS Paris and Moscow.

Davydenko suffers from Clayitis too, I guess.

Well done Robin!

Clayitis! Thank you Karin.

Soderling, you rule.

Pathetic, Nikolay :help:

nikolay didn't play like a nr4 that's for sure he can do much much better!!

well played robin!!!! I think he can definately make top 10.

Give Kolya a break! He just got married.

wow well done Robin :) Great win, Koyla is certainly not going to end up as No 3 again at the end of this year, perhaps went too much for it with the amount of tournaments and playing last year.

nice one sod

Losing a match point against Haas does that to you.

Losing a match point against Haas does that to you.

I don't think so mate.