The Spaniard who regain the world number one rank won his fifth French Open title after beating Robin Soderling currently ranked number five in three straight sets 6-4, 6-2, 6-4.

Rafael Nadal also won consecutive matches midway through the match and held every serve. Rafael Nadal is only the second person who have won at least five times in the French Open. Next year Rafael Nadal will have the chance to tie up with Bjorn Borg’s record having won six titles.

During the match, it was clearly seen that Robin Soderling had no answers on the superb performance of Rafael Nadal who regains the number one spot. As for Robin Soderling, he has been a runner up again in the French Open.

Robin Soderling  who is currently ranked number five hit 18 aces during his game against Tomas Berdych. He also overcame 63 unforced errors and swept the final four games. This is the only fifth five-set win in Robin Soderling’s career.

Robin Soderling will be waiting on who will he go up against. On Sunday he will either face Austrian Jurgen Melzer who defeated Novak Djokovic or the four time champion and former champion in the clay, the Spaniard Rafael Nadal. Even though it has been a year, it is still fresh in the memory of the people that king of clay Rafael Nadal lost to Robin Soderling during last years French Open.

Will it be a Grand Slam title for Robin Soderling? Or will there be someone who can stop and stand in his way?

Samantha Stosur will be facing against Italy’s Francesca Schiavone who also won with a first set tie break 7-3 against Elenea Dementieva the Russian fifth seeder who then quits due to a calf muscle  injury.

Samantha Stosur’s win over Jelena Jankovic made Jankovic’s hopes of finally winning a Grand Slam title destroyed. This is the 27th attempt of Jelena Jankovic who is a former world number one. Looks like Samantha Stosur loves destroying other players dream of winning a Grand Slam title this year.

“I’ve been playing well and if I can keep this form going I think I have got a good shot.” according to Samantha Stosur. It really seems like Stosur is very determined to grab the Grand Slam title.

As of June 03 2010 the No. 5 seed Elena Dementieva is set to challenge the No. 17 seed Francesca Schiavone. Elena Dementieva is back in the latter rounds of a Grand Slam tournament after crashing out early at both the 2010 Australian Open in the Women’s Singles Semifinals while Samantha Stosur will play against Jelena Jankovic. Yaroslava Shvedova will play in the Mixed Doubles with Julian Knowle against Katarina Srebotnik and Nenad Zimonjic.

Twelve days into the tournament and even if Venus is not anymore playing in the Women’s Singles, people are still talking about her. They are talking about her very revealing outfit when she first played in this year’s French Open.

Her outfit (see attached photo) caught everyone off-guarded. No one has ever worn something that revealing in to a big event like this one.

The black overlay material made it look like see-through but in fact it wasn’t.

Jurgen Melzer 29 years old and who is the oldest man left in the competition,  is the first Austrian to reach the last four since former winner Thomas Muster in 1995. Jurgen Melzer dropped the first two sets of the match before and was still struggling in the third before coming back and eventually winning the match.

Jurgen Melzer made an awesome breakthrough at his 32nd Grand Slam. This is the first time of Jurgen Melzer to reach beyond the third round of a major tournament. This is also the first time of Jurgen Melzer to come back in a match after losing the first two sets.

“It’s the most incredible moment of my career.” Jurgen Melzer said.

Samantha Stosur could have won the match in straight sets when she got to win two points of the match on serve 5-3 in the second, but she Samantha Stosur was not able to close the match and allowed Serena Williams back but eventually during the decider Serena Williams was crushed by Samantha Stosur.

Samantha Stosur’s win against Serena Williams puts her into the French Open semi finals for the second straight year. This is the best performance ever of Samantha Stosur in the Roland Garros. Samantha Stosur confirmed that she now belongs to those elite in the womens game.

It is the end for Serena Williams hopes of becoming the first woman Steffi Graf in 1988 to achieve the calendar year Grand Slam of Australian, French, Wimbledon and US Open titles.

Rafael Nadal will be facing fellow Spaniard Nicolas Almagro in the French Open quarter finals on Wednesday. Rafael Nadal, currently ranked number two said that his perfect record of six wins in six meetings against Nicolas Almagro will not matter anymore when the two of them will be facing each other in the quarter finals.

During the French Open in the year 2008, Rafael Nadal only lost three games to Nicolas Almagro when the two of them met at the same stage.

King of clay Rafael Nadal will be celebrating his 24th birthday on Thursday. Nadal is aware that Nicolas Almagro can give him a birthday present that he will never forget when he will lose the match between the two of them.

“It’s going to be complicated; he’s going to be very aggressive. As far as I’m concerned, I’ll try and play my way and do my best so that he feels a bit uncomfortable.” according to Rafa.

Well, Robin Soderling is not done yet, on Tuesday it was time for Roger Federer to face an unexpected defeat.Robin Soderling again made another upset and this time against world number one and defending champion of Roland Garros Roger Federer. Robin Soderling ended Roger Federer’s streak of 23 consecutive major semifinals. robin Soderling defeated world number one Roger Federer3-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4.

If this victories continue on for Robin Soderling, we can fairly say that this wins would not be considered as upsets anymore.

“I didn’t think I played a bad match.He came up with some great tennis. It’s much easier to digest this way.” Roger Federer said. Well it’s a goodbye for now for Roger Federer.

Robin Soderling will be playing number 15th seed Tomas Berdych who is a first timer Grand Slam semi finalist. Tomas Berdych is also the first player from the Czech Republic to reach the French Open semi finals since 1992.

Russian Elena Dementieva was the losing finalist of the French Open on 2004. This time Elena Dementieva will play against Italian and currently ranked 17th Francesca Schiavone who made an upset against Caroline Wozniacki. The two women will battle it all out to grab a place on Saturday’s finals.

Nadia Petrova was the one who also made an upset against Venus Williams in the previous round took the first set 6-2, but all of this was due to the poor first set performance of Elena Dementieva who was inconsistent on serve and fail to use her ground strokes. Shortly after the first set, Elena Dementieva was able to concentrate at her game and never looked back leaving Nadia Petrova beaten and worn out.