Born in Stuttgart, he was once even supposed to join the German Davis Cup team. Bernard Tomic has long since led a life full of scandals and affairs. The latest example: his bizarre appearance in the Australian version of the jungle camp.
In the Grand-Slam-Pampa, far out on the side pitches of the Australian Open, Bernard Tomic wanted to have the last word. The 25-year-old Australian had just dropped out of the final qualifying round for his home crowd in three sets against Lorenzo Sonego from Italy, and was unable to resist a short TV interview with Channel Seven. The reporter from Tomic wanted to know what he was doing after this devastating result in Melbourne. He didn’t think long before he gave the notorious replica:”I’m going to count my millions now” Rumms, that was sitting there again.
But it was nothing new from the mouth of a young man who once announced himself as a kind of new messiah in the tennis world, a mixture of Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. The man who, without batting an eyelid, spoke into the microphones and said that he would “certainly win all four Grand Slams and be the number one”, but what he has become is, as of the beginning of February 2018, this: a mid-twenties man surrounded by scandals and scandals, who has slipped far out of the top 100 in the world rankings and continues to swoop deeper and deeper inexorably.
The saga surrounding the tennis scandal figure had just reached a new low point when Tomic took part in the Australian version of the jungle camp for a few days, but after a few days Tomic was the first to ever say the unglamorous words “I am a star, get me out of here”. He needs support to get out of this situation,”said John Millmann, who will be competing against Germany in the first round with the Australian Davis Cup team in Brisbane these days.
Tomic should also be there, with the best Australian tennis players, in the international match against Zverev and Co. Tomic would have had what it takes to become the superman of the industry, and that’s something the oracles of the industry have long agreed on. However, there were no two opinions later on that Tomic quickly and unerringly lifted his promising career in self-destruct mode. His professional vita is not paved with titles and trophies, but with never-ending affairs and scandals. One of the worst and most embarrassing chapters in his sinister tennis chronicle was in Wimbledon, last year’s first-round match against Mischa Zverev.
Tomic lost the game, as so often in his career, completely demotivated, not for nothing they call him “Tomic the Tank”back home in Australia, so Tomic, the absenteeist and listless. But it was not until the press conference afterwards that his guest appearance in London’s southwest became an affair of state affairs. He said that he was “bored out there”, the 25-year-old stated,”I don’t feel any motivation. There’s just nothing there. I’ll probably play a few more years. After that, I never have to work again,” he assured me:”At the moment I don’t care whether I retire in the first or fourth round. It gives me no satisfaction.”
However, even back then in Wimbledon, it was just a particularly bizarre episode in Tomic’s wretched existence – at a famous tennis venue. Away from the courts, the professional player had even been repeatedly confronted with the police; back home on the Australian Gold Coast he had already been deprived of his driving licence due to several speeding offences.
Self-confident, apparently at any rate, he nonetheless appeared:”Do you know who I am?”, he asked a police officer who had come close to him because of a disturbance of the peace offence. In Miami, too, Tomic liked it loudly, very loudly indeed. There, the forces of law and order decided him because he had turned up the speakers far too far in a $9,400 suite of a five-star hostel. An Australian Twitter user described Tomic’s behavior with acrid acuity at the time:”If someone wants to challenge him as Australia’s number one idiot, Tomic takes it up a notch.
Tomic was born in 1992 in Stuttgart, Germany, after his parents had fled from the turmoil of war in the Balkans and fled to Germany. Soon the family moved on to Australia, where they found a home. Tomic’s father John turned out to be one of the notorious tennis fathers – even as a man with violent tendencies, and it was by no means just the usual quarrels.
In 2013, a Madrid court sentenced him to an eight-month prison sentence for physically assaulting the son’s French training partner, Thomas Drouet, and breaking his nose. At that time, Drouet reported in court that Tomic senior had treated him like a dog for years” At the German Tennis Association, officials were more than happy that earlier negotiations with Tomic’s clan had broken up over a move to the German Davis Cup team.
Just after leaving the jungle, Tomic junior let down under the leaves rustle when he accused the Australian Association of Corruption – the association that had not given him a wild card for the Australian Open. Lleyton Hewitt, for some time the vain mentor of the Radaubruder, said the obvious:”I can’t imagine that we will see Bernard Tomic again in the Davis Cup selection. Tomic, the man for the last strong word, returned:” I was never in a fragile state. I was one of the world’s best tennis players. Can you do it if you’re not mentally strong?”