Saturday, 1 March, 2008

Sweden's Robin Soderling defeated top seed Andy Roddick 7-6 (8/6) 6-3 in the quarter-finals of the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships.

Eighth seed Soderling admitted afterwards: "We both served well and it was fun to play against him.

"This is probably my favourite court on tour. I am serving great and I have no complaints at all. I think I am playing better and better with every match."

Next up for the Swede is fourth-seeded Czech Radek Stepanek, who survived a first-set tie-breaker to clinch a 7-6 (7/4) 6-1 victory over Chris Guccione.

Another Swede, Jonas Bjorkman, also advanced to the semi-finals with a 1-6 6-2 7-6 (8/6) victory over American teenager Donald Young.

Unseeded Steve Darcis of Belgium needed only 51 minutes to defeat Germany's Benjamin Becker 6-1 6-0.

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