Where is soderling now

Sadly, he retired very early after contracting mononucleosis but that was not the only health issue he had. Article continues below this ad. In a recent interview with the Sveriges Radio as quoted by Ubitennis , Robin Soderling talked about the mental health issues he had been having.

He said,. We were the best country in the world in the s. Pretty impressive for a small country. I think the [Swedish] federation got lazy. It started off with Bjorn Borg, Stefan Edberg and Mats Wilander, and tennis was so popular in Sweden and all the talented kids chose tennis over football and ice hockey.

How important has it been to be involved in tennis in many different capacities? I love the sport. I was the tournament director in Stockholm and that was a great learning process for me. But those feelings that I miss the most, I kind of get them from coaching; the preparation and the competitiveness, and getting a little bit nervous. When Federer played his best last year, no one could match it.

Not even Nadal. Rafa finished the year world No. How confidently could you answer these questions about the rules of tennis? Can you star In the first part of our series analysing the similarities and differences between men's At the start of the year the 10yearchallenge seemed to be doing the rounds on social media in which we all seemed to be uploading photos from and then another in the present day.

It took off and went viral on social media. Robin Soderling could himself do a 10 year challenge. The Swede announced himself on the world tennis stage in following an amazing game against Rafael Nadal on a wet and drizzly middle Sunday at Roland Garros.

I watched the game on my sofa at home. I was easily excited back then but it was amazing to see someone actually challenging the irrepressible force that was Rafael Nadal on clay. I remember his bright pink shirt and his shoes.

Only a guy like Rafael Nadal with his bronzed torso could ever carry that off. Besides that I got really excited when I saw Rafa lose the first set not because I do not like Rafael Nadal but because like many I wanted a change in champion. I perhaps had a little Nadal fatigue and Soderling was the only guy who had been genuinely able to trouble the Spaniard on the dirt.

Even more surprising as two weeks previous in Rome he had suffered defeat at the hands of Nadal. After fighting anxiety and panic attacks from July , I have been giving my body and mind time to heal, and now finally — nine years later, I feel good again, maybe even better than before.

People around me have urged me to speak up about my health journey earlier, but I wanted to wait until I felt ready, and completely healed. Being an athlete can be incredibly challenging for your mental health, and for me, my own strive for perfection, as well as the constant pressure I was putting on myself was in the end almost killing me.

But I waited until I felt ready and completely healed.