Tommy Paul sweeps aside Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and charges into Australian Open quarterfinals

Nobody expected this: 6-1, 4-0 after just 40 minutes. There are Grand Slam round of 16 players who start better than others, that’s what Tommy Paul (11th ATP, 27 years old) must have said to himself when he had already made more than halfway to the quarterfinals. of the final while barely feeling like he had started his match. Opposite, Davidovich Fokina (66th) clearly seemed to pay too heavy a price in the first week of his tournament, especially the last two rounds, completed in five rounds, going up two handicap sets, for a total of 8h21 of effort!