Roger Federer repeated his French Open final victory over Robin Soderling to book his place in the quarter-finals.

Just as at Roland Garros, where Federer recently claimed the first French Open title of his illustrious carrer, the Swiss won in straight sets and never looked in any danger as he played the big points the better.

Soderling crumbled at the key moments, in particular in both tie-breaks, as he went down 6-4 7-6 (7/5) 7-6 (7/5) on Centre Court at the All England Club.

Federer took the first set courtesy of a break of serve in the ninth game.

The second went with serve and in the resultant tie-break Soderling managed to get to 5-5 before producing two errors to hand Federer a two-set lead.

Federer fended off break point for the first time at 4-4 in the third and another tie-break resulted.

Again Soderling got into a good position - he led 5-4 at which stage he needed two service holds to force a fourth set.

Instead he lost both - a superb winner from the top seed being followed a double fault.

Federer duly finished things off, winning in a miniute short of two hours, to set up a quarter-final meeting with Fernando Verdasco or Ivo Karlovic.

It was his 11th victory over Soderling in 11 career meetings.