Nadal shapes as Tomic's toughest test Bernard Tomic officially faces the toughest assignment in grand slam history on Saturday night when he takes on all-conquering top seed Rafael Nadal in a third-round Australian Open showstopper at Melbourne Park.
A Tomic triumph would go down as the biggest upset in more than a century of major tennis championships.
The lowest-ranked man to beat a world No.1 at a grand slam was Russia's Andrei Olhovskiy, who sent Jim Courier packing from Wimbledon in 1993.
Olhovskiy was ranked 193rd in the world.
Tomic - with just seven ATP-level wins under his belt - is the world No.199.
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