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Bernard Tomic has been the surprise package of Wimbledon 2011 and the young Aussie insists he will continue with his laid back approach going into the quarter finals.

Xavier Malisse was the latest victim of the 18-year-old qualifier, who has already knocked out fifth seed Robin Soderling and world number 78 Igor Andreev.

Tomic has looked right at home on grass and needed just an hour and 21 minutes to beat the Belgian Malisse in straight sets, 6-1 7-5 6-4.

The last eight is his best performance in a Grand Slam event and only Boris Becker, Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe have been younger when reaching the SW19 quarter finals. The Wimbledon 2011 odds suggest he could make more waves.

Tomic is currently ranked outside the world's top 150, but he has shown in the last week that he could be a star of the future.

The teenager revealed: "Ever since I qualified I've been relaxed. I've found my game, it's where it needs to be and that's having fun out there and playing without pressure."

Tomic, who was born in Germany to Bosnian and Croatian parents, moved to Australia when he was two and has followed Lleyton Hewitt's exploits at Wimbledon.

Tomic faces his biggest test yet though in the last eight, when he comes up against world number two Novak Djokovic.

The Australian Open champion has lost just one match in 2011, but Tomic knows plenty about the Serbian as a regular practice partner of the second seed, although the pair have never met in a competitive match.

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