Robin Söderling scored a four set victory over Spain's Albert Montanes in theFrench Open on Friday as the Swede moved a step closer to emulating the heroics that catapulted him into last year's final.
Fifth seeded Söderling fired an impressive 20 aces in his 6-4, 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 third-round win over the Spaniard.
He will face Croatia's 11th seed Marin Cilic, who needed five sets to see offArgentina's Leonardo Mayer, for a quarter-final place.
The world number seven knows that defeat over the Croat is likely to set up a quarter final meeting with Roger Federer, the all-conquering Swiss master who defeated the Swede in the 2009 final.
