Paris, June 5 (AFP) – In an era when there is a little bad blood in the tennis men’s and Sunday’s French Open final between Rafael Nadal and Robin Soderling are being seen as a grudge match.

Observers say Nadal, tennis is still ahead of Sweden’s losing in the fourth round last year, especially after the pair clashed in 2007 at Wimbledon when Soderling imitated the Spanish tactics stop tugging at his shorts before the service, said the Telegraph.

The exchange between the two countries in that year revealed ill, the newspaper said.

“I said hello to (Soderling) seven times in the face, and said he had never hello to me,” Nadal said at the time. “I asked around the locker room, almost no one had anything nice to say about him.”

Soderling, who styles himself as the odd tennis and claims a few close friends on the circuit, refused to hunting Nadal in the face through the press, said: “Personally, if I have a problem with the player to go and talk to him face to face.”

The Daily Telegraph and Soderling won a defeat for Nadal in last year in Paris up to the Spanish painful joints, so Sunday’s game will be a way to Sweden to prove himself.