American sixth seed Andy Roddick crashed out of the Australian Open in the third round at the hands of German 29th seed Philipp Kohlschreiber after a marathon contest in Melbourne.
Kohlschreiber won 6-4 3-6 7-6 6-7 8-6 in a match that ended at just after 2am local time. He will play Finland's Jarkko Nieminen in the fourth round.
Both men had set points in the third set but Kohlschreiber took the tiebreak 9-7 to move ahead.
Roddick had a furious row with umpire Emmanuel Joseph in the fourth set. "You're an idiot," he yelled at the chair. "Stay in school kids, or you'll end up being an umpire."
Outburst
But if anything that outburst seemed to fire up the Texan former world number one and he played his best tennis of the match on his way to taking the tiebreak 7-3.
And although Roddick saved four match points at 4-5 in the final set - all with aces - Kohlschreiber finally grabbed the crucial and match-winning break in the 14th game when Roddick put a forehand wide.
It was Roddick's earliest exit from the event since his debut in 2002.
Despite firing down a career-best 42 aces, Roddick was outplayed in every other department by the 24-year-old Kohlscreiber, who entered the tournament with a career-high ranking of 27.
Power
A pumped-up Kohlschreiber told the crowd afterwards: "I just said to myself; 'full power on every shot'.
Roddick admitted: "It's not good, it's not fun. I am trying to think of a new and exciting way to say that. He was swinging from the first ball. I don't know if I had two feet set the whole match."