<table style="width: 132px; height: 42px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="132" align="right" border="1">  <tbody>  <tr>  <td><img alt="" src="/imagedata/2010/sep/soderling.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr>  <tr>  <td>  <p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt">Robin Soderling</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Fifth-seeded Robin Soderling won his second-round match at the US Open, defeating American Taylor Dent 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 yesterday. <br /><br />Soderling, who has reached the final at the French Open for two straight years, needed five sets for his first-round victory at Flushing Meadows but had a much easier time with Dent. <br /><br />Dent got buzz last year when he played in his first US Open in three years, after recovering from a pair of delicate operations on his back. He won two matches last year before losing to Andy Murray. <br /><br />This time it was Soderling knocking him out in a 92-minute match in which both players topped 140 mph on their serve, but Soderling had 14 aces to only nine from Dent. 

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Fifth-seeded Robin Soderling won his second-round match at the US Open, defeating American Taylor Dent 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 yesterday. 

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