Bernard Tomic

Country	Australia
Residence	Gold Coast, Australia
Date of birth	21 October 1992 (1992-10-21) (age 17)
Place of birth	Stuttgart, Germany
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	77 kg (170 lb)
Turned pro	2009
Plays	Right-handed; two-handed backhand
Career prize money	US$79,962
Singles
Career record	1–3
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 284 (November 23, 2009)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	2R (2009)
French Open	1R (2009)
Wimbledon	Q3 (2009)
US Open	-
Doubles
Career record	0–1
Career titles	0
Mixed Doubles
Career record	0–1
Career titles	0
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2009)
Last updated on: November 18, 2009.

Bernard Tomic (Croatian: Bernard Tomić, born 21 October 1992 in Stuttgart, Germany) is an Australian professional tennis player of Croatian descent.

Contents 1 Junior career 2 Professional career 2.1 2009 3 Controversies 4 Career statistics 4.1 Singles Titles 4.2 Singles Performance timeline 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Junior career

Tomic is considered by many as Australia's next best and up and coming player since Lleyton Hewitt, giving hope to a waning representation of top 50 seeded Australian men on the ATP tour. This statement has helped give Tomic greater belief in his abilities. In 2004 and 2006 he won the 12s and 14s Orange Bowl titles respectively; one of the most prestigious events on the junior tour.^[1]

Playing his first singles event on the junior tour in 2006, he successfully qualified for the Sunsmart 18 and Under Canterbury Championships, and went on to win the title defeating Samuel Vonton-Boot of New Zealand 6-3, 6-2 in the final. His success continued, winning the next three tournaments he played in (one of which was also an 18 and under tournament), giving him a 25 match winning streak. Tomic was able to extend this streak to 26 at the Riad 21 Junior tournament in Morocco before falling in the round of 16.^[2]

Tomic wasn't to win another tournament until August 2007, where he took out the Oceania Closed Junior Championships without dropping a set. He was unable to continue his dominance at the Junior US Open, falling in the round of 16. Tomic finished 2007 with a junior world ranking of 23.^[3]

He began 2008 by winning Nottinghill, an Australian ITF Junior event in Melbourne without dropping a set. Two days later he started his campaign for the Australian Open Juniors title as the 5th seed. Tomic went on to win defeating the 25th, 11th, 8th and 1st seed before beating 10th seed Tsung-Hua Yang of Chinese Taipei 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-0 in the final. ^[4] His win made him the youngest winner of the Australian Open Junior Boys' Championships in the Open Era.^[5]

Four months later, at Roland Garros, Tomic, the number one seed, fell in the quarter finals to Guido Pella of Argentina, losing 6-7(2), 3-6. At Wimbledon, Tomic was again the number one seed, but fell in the semi-finals to Henri Kontinen 7-6(3), 6-4. In a notable quarter final match, Tomic played another rising star, Henrique Cunha of Brazil, and came through victorious in three sets 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. Tomic also finished runner-up in the Wimbledon Junior Boys' Doubles Championships with fellow Australian junior Matt Reid.

At the 2008 US Open (Boys' Singles), Tomic lost in the first round to Devin Britton of the United States in three sets.

At the 2009 Roland Garros he once again reached the quarter finals in the boy's single tournament and later once again reached the semi finals Wimbledon. At the 2009 US Open (Boys' Singles) however Tomic won the junior grandslam title defeating Chase Buchanan of the USA, 6-1 6-3 having been seeded third.

[edit] Professional career

[edit] 2009

Towards the end of 2008, Tomic stated that he would no longer compete in junior tournaments and focus solely on senior tournaments. In 2009, Tomic was given a wildcard into his first ATP event, the Brisbane International, where he lost to Fernando Verdasco in the first round, 6-4, 6-2. Bernard was granted a wildcard into the 2009 Australian Open and drew Potito Starace in round 1. He won the match, 7-6 (5), 1-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (6), saving two set points in the 4th set tiebreak. He became the youngest ever male tennis player to win a senior Australian Open Grand Slam match. In the second round he lost to Gilles Müller 6-3, 1-6, 4-6, 2-6. He also played mixed doubles at the event with fellow 16-year-old Australian Monika Wejnert, losing to the Canadian pairing of Aleksandra Wozniak and Daniel Nestor in the first round 3-6, 2-6.

Tomic received wildcards into Australian Challenger tournaments in Burnie and Melbourne held in February. He reached the quarter-finals of Burnie before winning his first Challenger title in Melbourne.

Tomic earned a wildcard to the 2009 French Open but lost to Philipp Kohlschreiber in the first round, 1-6, 2-6, 2-6.

Tomic lost in the final round of Wimbledon qualifying to Edouard Roger-Vasselin. He contested the Junior tournament and made it to the semi-finals before being beaten by Andrey Kuznetsov.

In December 2009 Tomic was in the wildcard playoffs for the Australian open and unfortunatly lost in the final after winning his round robin,quarter and semi final.

[edit] Controversies

In March 2009, the International Tennis Federation suspended Tomic from playing ITF professional tournaments for a month after Tomic walked off court against Marinko Matosevic in a Perth Futures tournament in December 2008.^[6]

In September 2009, reports began to surface about Tomic's team rejecting an invitational practice session with Lleyton Hewitt during the middle Sunday of Wimbledon.^[7]

Hewitt's manager David Drysdale stated:

We turned up and saw the Tomics around and we thought 'oh, maybe they got our message, and they were there to hit with Lleyton'. So Ivan (Gutierrez, Hewitt's physio) went over to Bernard's trainer at the time, Rudy (Sopko) and said 'Is Bernard here to hit?'. Rudy knew nothing of it but said 'Look, Bernard's looking for a practice partner and I think Bernard would like to do it', but then the agent came in and said, 'No, he's not hitting with Lleyton, Lleyton's not good enough'. They were his words: 'Lleyton's not good enough' and we just about dropped on the spot. We were pretty dumbfounded. Lleyton just could not believe it, and the more he thought about it, the angrier he got about it." ^[8]

Bernard Tomic's team cited Hewitt's different playing style as the reason for turning down the practice offer.^[9]He was later seen requesting for a practice hit with former world number 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero, but was subsequently turned down. A few weeks later Tomic revealed that he was forced to turn away the opportunity due to his own infection with swine flu. He further denied any approach to Ferrero as an alternative hitting partner, despite the Spanish tennis player's claim. ^{[10] [11]}

[edit] Career statistics

[edit] Singles Titles

Legend (Singles)

Grand Slam (0)

Tennis Masters Cup (0)

ATP Masters Series (0)

ATP Tour (0)

Challengers (1)

Futures (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	2009	Melbourne	Hard	Marinko Matosevic	5–7, 6–4, 6–3

[edit] Singles Performance timeline

To help interpret the performance table, the legend below explains what each abbreviation and color coded box represents in the performance timeline.

Terms to know
SR	the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played	W-L	player's Win-Loss record
Performance Table Legend
NH	tournament not held in that calendar year	A	did not participate in the tournament
LQ	lost in qualifying draw	#R	lost in the early rounds of the tournament (RR = round robin)
QF	advanced to but not past the quarterfinals	SF	advanced to but not past the semifinals
F	advanced to the final, tournament runner-up	W	won the tournament

NMS				means an event that was not an ATP Masters Series tournament.
NM1				means an event that was not an ATP Masters 1000 tournament.

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through the 2009 French Open in Paris, France, which he was eliminated on 24 May, 2009.

Tournament	2009	Career W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	2R	1–1
French Open	1R	0–1
Wimbledon	LQ
U.S. Open	A
Grand Slam W–L	1-2	1-2
Year-end championships
ATP World Tour Finals
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
Indian Wells Masters	A
Miami Masters	A
Monte Carlo Masters	A
Rome Masters	A
Madrid Masters	A
Canada Masters	A
Cincinnati Masters	A
Shanghai Masters
Paris Masters
Statistics
ATP Tournaments Played	3	3
ATP Finals Reached	0	0
ATP Tournaments Won	0	0
Overall Win–Loss	1–3	1-3
Win (%)	25%	25%
Year-End Ranking		N/A

• Davis Cup and World Team Cup matches are included in the statistics. Walkovers are neither official wins nor official losses.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Bernard Tomic at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Bernard Tomic official site
• Bernard Tomic profile on Tennis Australia
• Bernard Tomic profile on ITF

v • d • e Australian Open boys' singles champions 2009 Yuki Bhambri  • 2008 Bernard Tomic  • 2007 Brydan Klein  • 2006 Alexandre Sidorenko  • 2005 Donald Young  • 2004 Gaël Monfils  • 2003 Marcos Baghdatis  • 2002 Clement Morel  • 2001 Janko Tipsarević  • 2000 Andy Roddick  • 1999 Kristian Pless  • 1998 Julien Jeanpierre  • 1997 Daniel Elsner  • 1996 Björn Rehnquist  • 1995 Nicolas Kiefer  • 1994 Ben Ellwood  • 1993 James Baily  • 1992 Grant Doyle  • 1991 Thomas Enqvist  • 1990 Dirk Dier  • 1989 Nicklas Kulti  • 1988 Johan Anderson  • 1987 Jason Stoltenberg  • 1985 Shane Barr  • 1984 Mark Kratzmann  • 1983 Stefan Edberg  • 1982 Mark Kratzmann  • 1981 Jorgen Windahl  • 1980 Craig Miller  • 1979 Greg Whitecross  • 1978 Pat Serret  • 1977 (Jan) Brad Drewett  • 1977 (Dec) Ray Kelly  • 1976 Ray Kelly  • 1975 Brad Drewett  • 1974 Harry Brittain  • 1973 Paul McNamee  • 1972 Paul Kronk  • 1971 Cliff Letcher  • 1970 John Alexander  • 1969 Allan McDonald

v • d • e US Open boys' singles champions 2009 Bernard Tomic  • 2008 Grigor Dimitrov  • 2007 Ričardas Berankis  • 2006 Dušan Lojda  • 2005 Ryan Sweeting  • 2004 Andy Murray  • 2003 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga  • 2002 Richard Gasquet  • 2001 Gilles Müller  • 2000 Andy Roddick  • 1999 Jarkko Nieminen  • 1998 David Nalbandian  • 1997 Arnaud Di Pasquale  • 1996 Daniel Elsner  • 1995 Nicolas Kiefer  • 1994 Sjeng Schalken  • 1993 Marcelo Ríos  • 1992 Brian Dunn  • 1991 Leander Paes  • 1990 Andrea Gaudenzi  • 1989 Jonathan Stark  • 1988 Nicolás Pereira  • 1987 David Wheaton  • 1986 Javier Sánchez  • 1985 Tim Trigueiro  • 1984 Mark Kratzmann  • 1983 Stefan Edberg  • 1982 Pat Cash  • 1981 Thomas Hogstedt  • 1980 Mike Falberg  • 1979 Scott Davis  • 1978 Per Hjertquist  • 1977 Van Winitsky  • 1976 Ricardo Yzaga  • 1975 Howard Schoenfield  • 1974 Billy Martin  • 1973 Billy Martin

Persondata
NAME	Tomic, Bernard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Australian tennis professional
DATE OF BIRTH	21 October, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart, Germany
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH