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9/30/10 2:38 PM | Ricky Dimon
Robin Soderling crushes Edouard Roger-Vasselin in his Kuala Lumpur opener on Thursday. Soderling is joined in the quarterfinals by Tomas Berdych, who took care of Denis Istomin.
Robin Soderling made a dominant start to his Malaysian Open campaign on Thursday, rolling over Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-0, 6-1 in one hour and three minutes to reach the quarterfinals. Soderling struck four aces and never dropped serve to set up a meeting with eighth-seeded Andrey Golubev.
The fifth-ranked Swede broke in the opening game of the match and was off to the races. Although he put in a dismal percentage of first serves, Kuala Lumpur's No. 1 seed lost only three service points in set one. Roger-Vasselin finally got on the scoreboard in the second and he also earned two break chances, but Soderling fought them off and eventually clinched the win with a break at 5-1.
Tomas Berdych had a slightly more difficult time in his opener, but he still scored a routine 6-4, 6-3 win over Denis Istomin. Berdych fired seven aces and broke serve five times en route to a quarterfinal clash against either David Ferrer or Yuki Bhmabri.
The seventh-ranked Czech had outlasted Istomin 6-7(1), 7-6(5), 6-7(8), 6-3, 6-4 in the Wimbledon third round this summer, but Istomin simply did not serve well enough to make this one anywhere close to as competitive. The underdog Uzbek won only 55 percent of his first-serve points and won far less than half of the points in which he had to donate a second offering.
Istomin broke once in each set, but he gave his own serve twice in the first and three times in the second. Berdych's fifth break of the day at 5-3 in set two finished off the proceedings in style after one hour and 22 minutes.
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