Dusseldorf, Germany - Holders Sweden have been handed a wild card entry into next month's the ARAG World Team Championships, with Robin Soderling again set to lead the squad, organizers said on Tuesday. "This is great news for our team," said the world number 24, joined on the squad by Robert Lindstedt and Andreas Vinciguerra. "I hope we will be able to follow up on our success last year."

Selection of the Scandinavians completes the field for the eight-nation clay tune-up the week before Roland Garros, May 17-23.

Sweden also won trophies at the elite eight-nation French Open tune-up in 1988 (v US), 1991 (v Yugoslavia) and 1995 (v Croatia). The nation also finished runner-up to France 22 years ago and in 1999 against Australia.

Soderling played a huge role in his nation's fourth title 13 years after its last, as he won won four singles and four doubles matches at last year's edition.

Teams: France (Gilles Simon, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Jeremy Chardy), Russia (Igor Andreev, Dmitry Tursunov, Evgeny Korolev), Argentina (Juan del Potro, Juan Monaco, Maximo Gonzalez), Germany (Rainer Schuettler, Nicolas Kiefer, Philipp Kohlschreiber, Mischa Zverev), Italy (Andreas Seppi, Simone Bolelli)

US (Sam Querrey, Robin Ginepri, Bob & Mike Bryan), Serbia (Viktor Troicki, Janko Tipsarevic, Nenad Zimonjic), Sweden (Robin Soederling, Andreas Vinciguerra, Robert Lindstedt) (dpa)