Bernard Tomic
Bernard Tomic (born 21 October 1992 in Stuttgart, Germany ) is an Australian tennis player. He lives in Gold Coast, Australia. As a junior Tomic won three times - as U12, U14 and U16 - players - the Orange Bowl, one of the most important youth tournaments. For this he won the Australian team to the Davis Cup for juniors. For special stir he caused when he age of sixteen - and as young as no player before - a match at the Australian Open 2009 won.
- 2.1 Single 2.1.1 Siege
- 2.1.2 finals
Life
Tomic was born in Stuttgart, with three and a half years he left with his Croatian parents Germany to move to Australia.
Single Career
Tomic began at the age of seven years with the sport of tennis. As a 13 -year-old qualifier, he won his first tournament, the U18 Canterbury Championships, in the final in straight sets against Oh Dae- soung. Until the summer, he took up in other competitions and won another tournament. After he had retired at the Oceania Junior Championship in the quarter -finals, he also went to the Asiatisch-/Ozeanischen Championship at the start and even reached the semi-finals, where he defeated his compatriot Greg Jones.
At the Australian Open juniors in January 2007, he won a game by giving up his Bolivian opponent, lost in the second round, however, against Frenchman Kevin Botti. With regard to open Japanese Championships in April of this year he succeeded the semi-finals. The French Open Junior in May 2007 in Paris, he finished as the qualifier also in the second round, when he retired from the set of fifteen Lithuanians Ričardas Berankis. A month later took Tomic to set number two by winning the Oceanic Junior Championships in 2007 his first international title. While he was again surprisingly reached the second round at the U.S. Open in 2007 as a qualifier, he retired at the Asian and Ozeanienmeisterschaften the seniors again prematurely. Previously, he helped with several victories during his team still won the Junior Davis Cup in 2007. Tomic The year 2008 began with the Junior win at the Australian Open. He was in six games from three sets and won the final against Yang Tsu -hua finally 4:6, 7:65, 6:0. The Australian also cut at the other Grand Slam tournaments of the junior successfully, at Wimbledon until he retired from the semi-finals.
After Tomic had qualified for the first time at the Australian Open 2009 for a Grand Slam tournament of adults, he met in the first round of the Italian Potito Starace, who was the clear favorite in the duel. However, the Australians surprised with a victory (7:6, 1:6, 7:6, 7:6 ), by which he became the youngest winner of the Australian Open match. In the second round he met the Luxembourg Gilles Müller, but against which he failed, although he had won the first set 6-3.
2010 started Tomic, through a wild card, again at the Australian Open. After a smooth 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 over the qualifier Guillaume Rufin, he lost in round two just in the fifth set against the set at number 14 Marin Cilic.
2011 also succeeded him at the Australian Open the entry into the third round of the tournament, where he Rafael Nadal was beaten. After the Australian Open Tomic played mainly Challenger with varying success. A big jump in the rankings to the front, he managed at Wimbledon, where he won 7 including qualifying matches in a row and in the quarter -finals to eventual winners and number one Novak Djokovic in the world failed. He was the youngest player since Boris Becker, who reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon. Among others it thereby achieved a victory against the top 10 player Robin Soderling. This success could not connect in the further course of the season. With partial successes at the ATP tournaments in Tokyo and Shanghai, but he worked his way up to rank 41 in the ATP rankings.
Tomic started 2012 by reaching the semi-finals of Brisbane. There he was defeated by Andy Murray British 3:6, 2:6.
In the first round of the Sony Open in 2014 Tomic lost his first game after his hip operation against Jarkko Nieminen in the Finn 28 minutes and 20 seconds. The defeat was the fastest in the history of the ATP Tour.
Double - career
Also in 2006, Tomic played his first tournament in a double, the oceanic Closed Junior Championships in Fiji, where he had to retire with Mark Verryth already in the first round. Shortly thereafter, he won with two different double partners Verryth and Brendan McKenzie, both games at the Junior Davis Cup against France and Morocco. That same year, followed by a few more tournaments where the Australians, however, failed in each case at an early stage.
At the beginning of 2007, Tomic started with partner Jared Easton at the Australian Open juniors, where they advanced to the quarter-final and subject to there in three sets. In the following tournaments Tomic won with changing partners, although in several games, but never reached the semifinals. This series was only broken when he was advancing in the Asian and Oceanian Championships in 2007 with Hiroki Moriya to the finals and won the silver medal. At the Australian Open 2008 Junior managed to at least the quarter-finals, also lost Tomic / Reid extremely scarce the finals of Wimbledon 2008.