PARIS: No Nadal, no excuses! Those are the words that could have haunted Roger Federer for the rest of his life if he had let the French Open crown slip from his grasp on Sunday.
Luckily for him, Swede Robin Soderling, and a miracle forehand winner in a fourth-round thriller against Tommy Haas helped the Swiss on his way to becoming only the sixth man to complete a career Grand Slam of all four major titles.
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