No trouble for classy Fed

Roger Federer crushed home hope Bernard Tomic 6-4 6-2 6-2 to advance into the Australian Open quarter-finals for the eighth straight year.

Del Potro next up for four-time Australian Open champion

Roger Federer crushed home hope Bernard Tomic 6-4 6-2 6-2 to advance into the Australian Open quarter-finals for the eighth straight year. The 30-year-old Swiss former world number one sent down 13 aces to beat the 19-year-old Australian in emphatic fashion. Tomic came into the match following an upset third-round win over 13th-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov and his unorthodox style was expected to cause the former champion some problems. But four-time Australian champion Federer had no trouble in front of a packed house of 15,000 at Rod Laver Arena. Federer took control after breaking the Australian at 4-4 in the opening set and needed just an hour and 44 minutes to complete proceedings. The 16-time Grand Slam champion broke Tomic's serve six times in all and lost his own just once, hitting 45 winners to Tomic's 13. "I thought I played a really good match. I knew I had to, anything else and I wouldn't have got the job done," the third seed said. "The score would suggest otherwise. If you hadn't seen the match you would think straight sets, no problem, but I had to work extremely hard and Bernard showed why he is going to be a great player in the future. "He's had a wonderful tournament and you shouldn't take anything away from him." Federer will now meet 11th seed Juan Martin Del Potro in the quarter-finals, in their first grand slam match-up since the Argentine beat the Swiss in the final of the 2009 US Open.