If any of you watched the match between Del Potro and Soderling yesterday at the SonyEricsson tour I bet you were left jaw dropped. Both are much above 6 feet tall, big, relentless with big serves, and flat and powerful forehands, now that is what I call a “mano a mano” match. We’ve seen some great rallies with massive powerful forehands and for my amazement even more powerful backhands. Both players clearly tried to force each others weaker side, but the Argentinean’s backhand prevailed in the end.
We also expected more from Soderling, his first serve percentage was low knowing his best, and made quite a lot of unforced errors, but I don’t think it’s simply because it wasn’t his day. Del Potro’s performance was evident of his once top 10 aspirations. He beat the #1 and #2 in a single grand slam in 2009, got injured didn’t play through 2010, but there is no doubt he is coming back now, and he is coming back better than ever.