Robin Soderling: 'Swedish tennis needs a star like Zlatan Ibrahimovic!'

France`s French Open Roland Garros Robin Soderling said Sweden`s tennis needs a star like Zlatan Ibrahimovic to be able to return his historic position. 33-year-old Soderling, who lost the finals of the world`s most prestigious clay tournament from contact with tennis picks by Roger Federer in 2009 and Rafael Nadal in 2010, is currently coach of the strongest Swedish tennis player Elias Imer , who however still can not break into the top 100 of the ATP. It all started with Bjorn Borg, a big star and tennis became a very popular sport. Success has led to interest, tennis has been an active part of the media program and many children have begun to practice it as a major sport. Then we had Stephan Edberg, Mats Wilander and they were the people for whom I and my generation started to train. There were always Swedes in the big tournaments. `I think it is possible to draw a parallel with the football where Zlatan Ibrahimovic has started many children to practice and they are already starting to play with them!', said Soderling. `Earlier today, Imer qualified for the second time in his career for the first round of Roland Garros, after overcoming the last round of qualifiers by Indian Pragnes Gunesvaran, but 22-year-old talent, however, there is still no win in the main scheme of a Grand Slam tournament.