Bernard Tomic

Have you chucked a sickie today? We bet you’re one of many hundreds of thousands who do!

While we recover from an Australia Day that saw the PM lose a shoe, we’re also contemplating how 19-year-old tennis whipper snapper Bernard Tomic qualified for a special dispensation to drive a hotted-up sports car.

Noice wheels BT. Picture Adam Head

Are we that dazzled by celebrity sportsmen we basically let them do what they want? Any way, fire away.

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OK, so having spent half the summer bagging old buggers who don’t know when to quit, let’s give some love to those who continue to ripen on the vine without rotting.

Performances for the ages. Pics: Keoki Flagg (Farmer), Alan Pryke (MacGill) and Getty Images (Lee).

Firstly, Roger Federer. The Swiss master is known as FedEx because he delivers results fast. Last night, the Ex stood for Exhibition, as in exhibition match. There were two tennis players on Rod Laver Arena last night – Federer and Jim Courier, who interviewed him after the game.

Bernard Tomic was apparently also there, but pretty much just as a hitting partner. Oh, he tried. He came with a plan. A plan to blast Federer off the court instead of teasing him with deft touches he’d employed so well against lesser opponents. It was the Malaysia Solution of sporting strategies.

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  • wayne says:

    10:08am | 24/01/12

    I only wish that the Twenty20 series was broadcast so I can watch it, to give an informed opinion!!  I enjoy watching the short game, but prefer the tactics of the one day game better.  Frustrated that I can’t get Foxtel where I live (wouldn’t want to either, just for… Read more »

  • Frank says:

    09:08am | 24/01/12

    it was hilarious watching Brett Lee smash into that guys ass…who thought Cricket could be entertaining? Read more »

 

Despite the quality of Michael Clarke’s record since taking over the Test captaincy, he’d been much-maligned until his Sydney triple ton. But Clarke’s record-breaking knock has finally silenced the knockers.

My popularity has increased by THIS much. Pic: Getty Images.

The performance was all the more memorable because it happened it was on home soil. Amplified media attention, free-to-air TV coverage, and the ability to attend events live means sport played domestically is afforded extra credence.

Bernard Tomic now finds himself in a similar boat to the former Mr Lara Bingle.

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  • gcresident says:

    10:29am | 27/01/12

    Easy - Boycott his sponsors http://www.bernardtomic.com/sponsors Read more »

  • Sick of the bs says:

    10:15pm | 18/01/12

    The next person who pronounces his name “Tomik” and not “Tomich” gets a kick in the head! Read more »

 

When you hear the words “father”, “coach” and “talented young tennis player” in the same sentence, it’s usually time to oil the rifle. For now, though, let’s give young Australian tennis star Bernard Tomic the benefit of the doubt.

Overnight, Tomic became the only Australian men’s player other than Lleyton Hewitt to make the Wimbledon quarter finals since 2003 with his demolition of some Belgian dude with an X in his name. He’ll now face world number two Novak Djokovic, whom he beat in an exhibition match in Melbourne last summer.

In serious competition, Djokovic will likely whip Tomic. But as the youngest man in the draw, the Australian’s performances at Wimbledon this year prove beyond doubt that he has now officially arrived, after all the years of hype. So now that he’s here, what can we expect to see?

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  • Ray says:

    07:48am | 29/06/11

    Its his attitude and the Father that worries me and probably a whole lot more people, good luck to him, but if he makes it then be humble and not a clown, otherwise you will branded for the rest of your career.  Aussies don’t like clowns, we have too many… Read more »

  • Markus says:

    11:17pm | 28/06/11

    “you say that, and yet how many youngsters took up Pole-Vaulting as a result?” Every youngster took up vaulting their own pole as a result. Read more »

 

Update: Lleyton lost, again.

Excuse the disturbing imagery, but imagine for a moment Lleyton Hewitt as a burlesque dancer.

Lletyon and Marcos share a moment. Photo Andrew Tauber


Imagine Lleyton as one of those Dita Von Teese types that have lead a popular resurgence for the art in recent years. Emerging out of a large bowl and dressed in emu feathers, Hewitt begins the Australian Open by holding an expectant crowd’s attention with his potential to nude-up with a win.

But year after year the tease is interrupted by a stern order from backstage and Lleyton goes running off, leaving the crowd to go home frustrated and merely fantasize at the potential of what we might have been treated to. 

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  • Adam says:

    01:10am | 27/01/10

    What I want to know is why we can get live coverage for the tennis in the day sessions in Queensland but as soon as 7 goes to the news, Today Tonight and its unneccessary Home and Away (couldn’t they wait another week? Viewers have had all summer) we’re on… Read more »

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    10:48pm | 25/01/10

    Bless you Stan, Read more »

 

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