Two weeks ago, the brief, mid-set tanking of Nick Kyrgios at the French Open drew headlines and gasps about the sanctity of sport and the need to play at 100% at all times. But that was just for a few points in one game in the middle of a set. It wasn’t a tank. It was barely a Hummer.

This week, the volatile Frenchman Benoit Paire, who was once in the top 25 but now resides at No. 59 and is relegated to playing some Challenger tournaments for rankings points, showed how to really tank in tennis — we’re talking the M4 Sherman of tanking. The video above is of Paire dumping the second set against Filippo Volandri, an Italian journeyman currently ranked No. 194 in the world,at the San Benedetto tournament, an especially odd decision given that Paire won the first set 6-1.

What the video doesn’t show is Paire dumping the first two games of the third set and then quitting the match at 2-0, nor getting a penalty beforehand (if my reading of the French sports newpaper L’Equipe is correct).

The last time we saw Paire on the tennis court he was doing this at Wimbledon, so it’s not as if his tanking was completely out of the blue.