With the majority of the crowd against her, Yulia Putintseva turned her attention to a song about rabbits.
Her Australian Open, Turkish qualifier Zeynep Sonmez, was backed by a raucous following in Melbourne after forcing a deciding set in their tight third-round match.
So Putintseva, in an attempt to block it all out, repeated the words of a song from an old Russian movie in her head, rather than her usual go-to of Taylor Swift.
She admitted that was not her usual coping mechanism - but it proved a necessary distraction as she came through to win 6-3 6-7 (3-7) 6-3 in Melbourne.