Roger Federer failed to reach the French Open quarter-finals for the first time since 2004 as he lost in five sets to Latvia's Ernests Gulbis.
The 17-time Grand Slam champion led by a set and a break, but went down 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (7-3) 6-2 4-6 6-3.
Fourth-round victory would have taken the 32-year-old Swiss into a record 42nd major quarter-final.
Gulbis, seeded 18th, goes on to face sixth seed Czech Tomas Berdych in the last eight.
The temperamental 25-year-old gave a typically unpredictable performance, big serving and brilliant shot-making interspersed with racquet smashing and verbal exchanges with spectators.
There was no doubt where the crowd's affections lay on Court Philippe Chatrier, with 2009 champion Federer given the support of a home player.
The Swiss looked in control when he served for a two-set lead, but he inexplicably failed to put away a smash on set point, and the afternoon took a very different turn.
Gulbis came back to win the tie-break and broke serve twice to move into the lead in the third.
Chants of "Roger, Roger" rang around the stadium as the crowd tried to lift their man, and Federer responded by taking the fourth set.
He was made to wait at 5-2 while Gulbis left the court for a medical timeout, though, and the Latvian almost recovered two breaks as he regained the momentum.
Federer slipped to 0-40 in his first service game of the decider and, after saving two break points, he hammered the third wide.
Try as he might, and urged on by the crowd, Federer could not not recover the deficit.
Gulbis held him off brilliantly under pressure at 4-2 with two huge serves and a deft drop shot, and coolly served out the win after three hours and 42 minutes.
bbcsport.com
Ugh, have I mentioned how much I don't like Ernests Gulbis?. Well let me just say, I don't like the guy at all (more on that in a different post).
I didn't really expect Roger to win Roland Garros this year but I certainly didn't expect him to have another early exit again either.
Reading headlines where Roger loses I can always only think of one thing, this just plain sucks.
Guess I'm cheering for Novak Djokovic to dethrone the king of clay now. Bring on the grass I'm ready to move on to Wimbledon.
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