⇒ the Tomic bomb

Well, well, well; Tomic dumps Soderling in straight sets, including a 6-1 first set mauling.

6-1 6-4 7-5

Tomic was up 5-0 in 11' in the opening set against #5 Soderling, eventually taking it 6-1 in 17 minutes!

Holy crap, Tomic beat Malisse to make the QF! He did it dropping the same number of games in a similar pattern: 6-1 7-5 6-4

His run includes:
3 qualifying matches
(29) Nikolay Davydenko in straight sets
Igor Andreev from 2 sets down
(5) Robin Soderling
Xavier Malisse

Now he's got the winner of Djokovic-Llodra.

Awesome run, Bernie. Congrats to Australia's new highest ranked player (somewhere in the 70s, jumping about 57 ranking spots). No pressure now.

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