Andy Roddick became the biggest male casualty of the French Open after a crushing third-round defeat to Teimuraz Gabashvili.
Sixth seed Roddick's game was dismantled by world number 114 Gabashvili, who completed an embarrassingly straightforward 6-4 6-2 6-2 win in just one hour 56 minutes on Suzanne Lenglen Court.
Roddick, who reached his third Wimbledon final last year after achieving a career-best run to round four at Roland Garros, saw his normally imperious serve broken four times by the Georgia-born Russian.
The 27-year-old's defeat will go down as one of the big shocks of this year's tournament, although the American did struggle to reach the third round after missing the entire clay-court season this year.
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