4/28/11 9:36 PM | Johan Lindahl
Robin Soderling will have to lift his game when he plays Juan Del Potro in an Estoril Open quarter-final after barely struggling through over France's Jeremy Chardy in an opening match.
But that's not how top seed Soderling sees the situation.
Instead of worrying about his second-set collapse, he's more interested in how he got the job done in the end to advance. "I'm not disappointed because I won in the end," said the finalist at the last two French Opens. "It doesn't matter how you play if you win."
Soderling is making a true start on clay this week in sunny Portugal after losing in his opener in Barcelona suffering with Achilles tendon and knee injuries which he now says are behind him.
Soderling wants to return to his start of season form, when he won 18 of his first 19 matches, lifting three titles in four events. Del Potro, who missed most of 2010 after wrist surgery, is quickly getting back to clay court form and has beaten Soderling on every surface upon which they've played. The quarter-final will be their first meeting on clay.
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