Jannik Sinner continued to keep his head while all around are losing theirs after cruising into the Wimbledon third round.
While Carlos Alcaraz needed five sets to see off 38-year-old Fabio Fognini and Novak Djokovic required 'miracle pills' to overcome Alexandre Muller – not to mention the shock exits of seeds three and four Alexander Zverev and Jack Draper – Sinner has barely broken sweat.
The world number one took just an hour and 40 minutes to defeat Australian Aleksandar Vukic 6-1 6-1 6-3 and set up a meeting with Spain’s Pedro Martinez on Saturday.
The only minor hiccup was needing six match points to finish off the world number 93.
Gallingly for his remaining rivals, Italian Sinner has dropped only 12 games in two matches, spending a miserly hours three and 28 minutes on court so far.
Seven-times champion Djokovic showed that he remains a real threat for a record-extending 25th Grand Slam title at the age of 38 with a clinical 6-3 6-2 6-0 destruction of home hope Dan Evans on Centre Court.
The Serb continues to rage against the dying of the light and, having identified the grass of Wimbledon as his best chance of adding to his extraordinary tally, showed exactly why in a superb all-round performance where he looked as sharp and fit as at any time in his career.
He was never really troubled on serve all afternoon while wildcard Evans had to scramble for almost everything on his – saving nine first-set break points before eventually succumbing on the 10th.
Djokovic continued to dominate as Evans, who beat him in their only previous meeting on clay four years ago, saw his tame sliced backhands repeatedly crashed back past him as the sixth seed romped home.
British No. 1 Jack Draper's hopes of challenging for a first Wimbledon title were crushed in just the second round by former finalist Marin Cilic.
The Croatian lost to Roger Federer in the 2017 showpiece, three years after winning his only grand slam title at the US Open, but at 36 his best days appeared to be very much behind him.
Cilic rolled back the years with a sublime performance, hitting 53 winners in a 6-4 6-3 1-6 6-4 victory, but this will be a bitter pill for Draper, who has elevated himself into the world's top four but is still yet to go beyond the second round at his home grand slam.
Alex de Minaur battled back from being a set down to make sure he did not join the seeds’ scrapheap at this shock-filled Championships.
The Australian 11th seed was poor in the opening set against French qualifier Arthur Cazaux but reset impressively to win 4-6 6-2 6-4 6-0.
Grigor Dimitrov is also safely through, the 19th seed from Bulgaria taking out volatile Frenchman Corentin Moutet in four.
But American 13th seed Tommy Paul, last year’s Queen’s Club winner, joined the exodus of seeds with a 1-6 7-5 6-4 7-5 defeat by Austrian Sebastian Ofner.
Czech 21st seed Thomas Machac was also knocked out after a five-set marathon against August Holmgren, the world number 192 from Denmark who faced three match points in his second-round match in qualifying last week and is now through to a third-round meeting with De Minaur.
A total of 19 of the 32 men’s seeds have been knocked out before the third round.
