Bastad

Ferrer is the clear favorite in this semi-final but it's all about betting against Robin Soderling here, who really has looked awful in his two first matches. Soderling has reached this stage of the tournament only because of his tenacity in front of home crowd. Ferrer has the ability to expose the heavy movement of Soderling. If the Swede won't serve better than 55% against Ferrer, he could be even trashed and embarrassed by the Spanish clay court specialist. No matter how anxious Robin would...

Tommy Robredo is a smarter player than Nicolas Almagro. He will stay in defense and let his opponent to lead the points. Almagro is the better player and is playing his usual risky game but decisive will be how Nicolas will know to keep his unforced errors to a minimum. Fernando Verdasco was not able to do that in the previous round against Tommy as he was trashed in straight sets. But Almagro is better to adjust his instinctive style against the type of defensive players such as Robredo. Robredo...

Despite a good overall clay courts record with 193 won and 118 lost matches, the 78th ranked Aussie Peter Luczak hasn't played his best on clay this year, winning only 7 of 20 matches. Today he will face the Spanish clay court specialist, Pere Riba, ranked 81 in the world and with a 210/147 overall clay courts record. His season so far has been great winning 30 of 43 matches. The 22-year-old Spaniard won the Bytom clay court Challenger one week before Wimbledon and managed to defeat Frenchman Marc...

The Swedish Open, first held in 1948, is an ATP World Tour 250 series tennis tournament held in Bastad in July each year. Each year, the players on the ATP Tour vote for the ATP Tournament of the year and the SkiStar Swedish Open in Bastad has received this honor eight times, winning the International Series Tournament of the year in last 8 years. The clay court event is the first tournament to have won this award eight consecutive years. Famous Australian champions like Ken Rosewall, Ashley...