Soderling retires from tennis

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Tough luck for Robin Soderling that had to call it a career.

The Swede has been sidelined for 4 years by a glandular fever and he had hopes to come back on tour in 2016. Eventually Robin had to accept the fact that he couldn’t reach the level of fitness required to play at the very top and at 31 years of age he decided to retire.

Soderling: My career is over…

Robin commented “I’ve realised that I will not be healthy enough to be able to play tennis at the level I demand of myself. For that reason, I have decided to end my career as a professional tennis player.”

… I have done a mistake

Then he added “A few weeks before the Swedish Open in Bastad in 2011 I became ill with glandular fever. Since I was not aware of the seriousness of this, I made the mistake of continuing to train and compete with the virus in my body, which resulted in a sharp overtraining syndrome. I have since struggled to recover completely from this.

“With the disease it has been impossible for me to train 100% and I was forced to rest after any physical effort. In some periods I felt so bad that I was completely bed-ridden. This past year, however, my health improved and I have been able to increase my exercise levels, but my recovery after exercise is unfortunately still not as I would like.”

Robin has won 10 titles in his career and he was ranked no.4 in November 2010. He will always been remembered for being the first man to beat Nadal at the French Open where he reached the final in 2009 and 2010.



 

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