Bernard Tomic

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Bernard Tomic apologises over Miami arrest

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Australian number one Bernard Tomic has apologised after being charged with resisting arrest in Miami

Bernard Tomic has apologised after being arrested at a Miami Beach hotel on Wednesday.

The Australian number one was charged with resisting arrest without violence and trespassing, after refusing to leave the premises of the W South Beach following complaints of loud music emanating from the 22-year-old’s room.


The world number 25 was later released on a $2,000 bail and admitted full responsibility for the incident.

"It was definitely my fault” Tomic told CBS4 News. "I was asleep on several occasions when they complained at first, but you know, it was just a noise complaint.

"I'm sorry for the police and the disturbance I caused. I'm just happy I got out and no one got hurt."

The Australian repeatedly fail to respond to requests to turn the music down and according to his arrest sheet, refused to allow hotel security staff to enter the room.

"I asked him to come in and we negotiated the volume and he still wasn't happy when he came back the second time, and when he came back I was just disappointed to see police there.

"I said 'can I have a bit more time to collect my stuff?', and unfortunately they didn't give me enough time."

The talented youngster has already fallen foul of the authorities in recent weeks, having been banned from Australia’s Davis Cup clash with Kazakhstan this weekend after launching a bitter tirade against Tennis Australia officials.

http://www.allsportsnews.co.uk/news/ten ... ami-arrest

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#3) Bogota 2015


www.noticiascolombianas.com.co

R1 wolna runda
R2 Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP) 6-7(5) 6-2 6-4
QF Tatsuma Ito (JPN) 6-1 6-4
SF Michael Berrer (GER) 6-4 6-7(4) 7-6(3)
W [3] Adrian Mannarino (FRA) 6-1 3-6 6-2

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Tomic Retains Bogota Crown

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Bernard Tomic successfully defends his Claro Open Colombia title

Bernard Tomic retained his Claro Open Colombia title, battling past Frenchman Adrian Mannarino 6-1, 3-6, 6-2 in Sunday's final.

The Aussie extended his record in Bogota to 9-0 and earned the 10th successful title defence on the ATP World Tour this year. He improved to 3-1 in tour-level finals, defeating Ivo Karlovic in a deciding tie-break in last year's title match and triumphing in Sydney 2013 (d. Anderson).

"It's been a very good year," said Tomic. "I started at No. 70 (in the Emirates ATP Rankings) and am now close to No. 20. It's been a good seven months. I'll try to play well the next three months and have the chance to be in the Top 15.

"Every title you remember. I'm very happy to have won my third title and to defend it here was amazing. I'm really happy with myself... This is my most consistent year."

Tomic looked poised to run away with the final on Campo Central, racing out to a 6-1 first set. But it would not take long for Mannarino to turn the tables, claiming five of the next six games in the second set. He secured a second break of serve for 5-1 when a Tomic volley clipped the net and a composed Frenchman ripped a backhand passing shot. The Aussie would break back immediately, but Mannarino eventually captured the set 6-3, forcing a decider.

Lleyton Hewitt on Twitter: Well done Bernie #Tomic on defending his Bogota title! 1st time in his career! @ATPWorldTour

Tomic was forced to dig deep, saving three break points in the third game of the third set, before breaking for 4-2 a few games later. The second seed would convert on his third match point after one hour and 33 minutes, firing nine aces and capitalising on five of 10 break chances.

The 22 year old, who takes home $124,325 and 250 Emirates ATP Rankings points, joins Milos Raonic and Grigor Dimitrov as the lone players born in the 1990s to win three or more ATP World Tour titles. He is the first Australian titlist this year.

Mannarino, 27, was hoping to secure his first ATP World Tour crown after finishing runner-up in his first final on the hard courts of the Heineken Open in Auckland (l. to Vesely). He claims $65,480 in prize money and 150 Emirates ATP Rankings points for his efforts. Earlier on Sunday, countryman Benoit Paire became the sixth first-time titlist this year.

"Bernard was playing really low, so it was tough to be aggressive," said Mannarino. "If you try to hit a huge shot in altitude on a low ball, you cannot do it. I needed to have the right ball and I felt I didn't have it. It's never easy to play fast with these conditions. You have to control the ball. I didn't find this balance in the right moments.

"We always have regrets. Tennis is such a complicated sport. You have a thousand decisions during the match. At the really important points today I didn't make the right decisions. I'm going to try to do better next time."

http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/bog ... -mannarino

[bogdan1978]

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An Interview With: Bernard Tomic (Round 2 win USO 15)

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Q. Huge match point that you saved. How big was that?

BERNARD TOMIC: It was a big point. You know, I felt like I had the racquet, the match at my hands after the first set, second set, and third set being up 2-Love. I was feeling really good. I was playing very good. He was not responding to my game because I was playing big.

After that, when he got on the roll, I felt like it was my match twice. Especially serving for it at 5-3 in the fourth, it was my match on the racquet. I messed it up. I messed up a few matches this year like this.

After he had the match on his racquet. I played the right tennis at this moment. I had two match points I was down. I went for it.

But believe me, this year, all the match points, I had like five matches where I had three match points, four match points. If I could have used all them now, I would have been top 15 for sure. But for one match it happened to me, no?

Q. Lleyton hoped you might grow as a player getting out of a match like that. Do you think the same?

BERNARD TOMIC: Yeah, absolutely. It's not easy. I knew from the point when he was coming back, it was not going to be easy because I kept thinking about watching his matches in the past, how he got out of them. Then I was in the moment, in the position where I was winning and he was starting to get back. For me it was not easy. I was thinking about all the matches I watched him coming back. For me it was tough after to play.

Q. When you called for the trainer at 6-5, you looked like you were in a lot of pain.

BERNARD TOMIC: I was.

Q. Was it cramping?

BERNARD TOMIC: I don't know what it was. It felt like something like that in the leg. In moments, in the big points, I was trying to do stuff, I was trying to stay in the point with him long. In that period of time I was feeling something in my leg. It was tough. He was feeling it as well. It was a very emotional match for both of us.

Q. Did it cross your mind at all during the match, Lleyton's final tournament, how special this match was?

BERNARD TOMIC: Yeah, it was. It was very tough for me before the match. Then during the match, you know, I freed up a little bit. I was playing very good. But it was the first time for me where it was an Australian crowd, but it was all for Lleyton. Not in a bad way for me, but everyone wanted for him, the best US Open, you know, maybe a victory. But it was a tough position because I'm used to the Australian crowd being on my side.

Now they weren't on my side, but they were more encouraging for him. It was okay. It was tough. It was his last US Open. If I was a spectator I would be in the same position for sure.

Q. How are you feeling physically? How do you look at the matchup with Richard?

BERNARD TOMIC: Yeah, I spoke to him in the locker room. He was, as well, very tired. He was feeling some problems out there. Everyone is feeling problems.

I think my record is 4-1. I beat him in a very important one, which is Wimbledon, third round, 2013. Every match we had in the past was very close. I've learned a lot when I played him. He's an amazing player. He's not easy to play.

I have to take each match that I played against him and use it for this third-round match.

Q. Did you share a word with Lleyton at the net?

BERNARD TOMIC: Yeah, I did. Yeah, it was not easy. Like I said, the match was very tough from my position, very tough for everyone. It's his last US Open. In this situation, it was, for me, tough. I should have won the match a few times. I had it on my racquet and I messed up.

But then being down, the situation in the fifth set, somehow finding a way, I played the right tennis.

The moment when I hit that forehand, everything was amazing for me. I was happy to win. Unfortunately for him, you know, he's a legend, not just to me, to everyone in the world, you know. I'll always look up to him. I learned a lot from him.

I'm happy we had a match like this today.

Q. He was saying you and Cruz get on well. Sitting here, did you feel bad?

BERNARD TOMIC: I did. No, it's not an easy position to be in. He helps me a lot the last few years. He's becoming so much closer to me now. This match, this position in this match was not easy for me. I want to win. On the other side he wants to win. The crowd are cheering him on. Then I feel, you know, bad. I'm winning, playing very well.

He started playing very, very good tennis to come back. Then I started thinking more. It was an amazing match, though, for sure.

Q. When you're in that fifth set, you're down, the crowd is behind Lleyton, you dig deep and turn it round, what is going through your head? Serena Williams talks about taking it one point at a time. How do you work through that?

BERNARD TOMIC: Me, no, I think if you're in a situation and you're losing, like obviously I got broken at 3-All, or 4-3, you have to give it a shot and go for it. Whereas before I switched off when I was younger. I think now my approach when I'm losing is just go for it, you know. It's different. Just go for it. Be a little bit more aggressive. That's what you need to do.

You can't play defensive on these big points, being down in the final set. You have to go for it. That's what I did today. I came out of a few matches this year like this because I did the right thing in these positions.

Q. How great is it to break the second round of the last few years?

BERNARD TOMIC: It's very good. Four rounds of second round since I was 18. I'm happy now. My fifth year. I'm in the third round for the first time. It's very good for me. I have a chance now to make the fourth round. It's not going to be easy, but I have the opportunity. I have to prepare as best as I can.

Q. Can you tell us what you and Lleyton said to each other at the net?

BERNARD TOMIC: I think I said, Why did you have to come back? I just said, Why did you have to? It's too good.

In my mind, I thought he won the match. You know, it was very emotional for us. He wished me the best of luck. I'm very good friends with him. For me, it's not easy to see that.

Q. Up two sets to love, the break in the third, things started to slip away, what were you feeling like at that stage? How anxious were you getting?

BERNARD TOMIC: Yeah, absolutely. I knew the situation could be very difficult after I started thinking about it more. So for me was tough to play in a situation when he broke me back in the third set.

I knew it was going to be like that. Then the crowd started more. I was thinking about that, not thinking about my game. After that, you know, I had the opportunity in the fourth where I was losing. Then served for the match. New balls I had, too, on my racquet. He made every return.

I think, you know, he deserved to win that game. Then after, he obviously won the fourth set. But had the match on the racquet. I was playing very comfortable. But it's something I need to work on. Something I need to work on, being in front and finishing matches.

http://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/interv ... und_2.html

[bogdan1978]

14.09.2015

Najwyższa pozycja w karierze: 23

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Puchar Davisa: bez finału, ale z Top-20.



Bernard zawiódł w pojedynku z Andym Murrayem, tym bardziej, że był to jego "wirtualny debiut" w roli gracza z Top-20. Tym samym Bernie zrealizował swój cel z początku tego sezonu.

18 Ivo Karlović - 1620
19 Grigor Dimitrov - 1600
20 Bernard Tomic - 1575
21 Dominic Thiem - 1555
22 Viktor Troicki - 1511

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21.09.2015

Najwyższa pozycja w karierze: 20

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[COA]

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Po awansie do drugiego w tym roku ćwierćfinału turnieju rangi M1000, Bernard zapewnił sobie nowy rankingowy rekord.

17. Feliciano Lopez - 1770
18. Bernard Tomic - 1675
19. Dominic Thiem - 1600

Jesteś najlepszy.

[Mario]

Dwóch rzeczy dowiódł Tomic w tym sezonie. Pierwsza banalna i oczywista tzn. jeśli coś potrafisz to przy odpowiednim podejściu w dzisiejszych czasach top 20 zrobi się samo. Druga też dość przewidywalna, nie nadaje się gość do dużego tenisa i przy każdej okazji będzie odbijał się od ściany jeszcze mocniej niż choćby Raonic.

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Ale jeżeli utrzyma to 'odpowiednie podejście', to Top-10 w zasięgu z czasem.

[Mario]

Wątpię, tzn. nie za bardzo widzę pole do poprawy w porównaniu do tegorocznych startów. A jeśli nawet to chyba nie na tyle duże, by zrobić z tego prawie 1000 punktów. Inna sprawa, że jeśli tenis dalej będzie szedł w tym kierunku...

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1000 punktów może nabić robiąc regularnie ćwiartki, połówki albo wygrać i zrobić finał 500. Nie takim tuzom to się udawało.

[Mario]

A w tym nie robił regularnie? Do IW chyba nie zszedł z ćwiartki (wyłączając oczywiście AO). Na trawie też swoje zrobił, ewentualnie mógł z tym Johnsonem wygrać. Później lekki kryzys, ale niemożliwością jest prezentowanie równiutkiej formy przez cały sezon (mówimy o tenisistach jego pokroju). Teraz znów odbił się od dna.

Jeśli nie nastąpi jakaś wielka zmiana w tenisie Bernarda to ja materiału na większy progres nie widzę. Return, krycie kortu, poruszanie - wszystko na poziomie katastrofalnym jeśli mówimy o zawodowym tenisie. O ile odbiór po tylu latach ciężko będzie poprawić, z kryciem kortu podobnie, tak lepsze bieganie da się chyba zrobić. Ale tu potrzeba większej harówki, nie wystarczy tylko odstawić chlania i panienek...

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A w tym nie robił regularnie? Do IW chyba nie zszedł z ćwiartki (wyłączając oczywiście AO). Na trawie też swoje zrobił, ewentualnie mógł z tym Johnsonem wygrać. Później lekki kryzys, ale niemożliwością jest prezentowanie równiutkiej formy przez cały sezon (mówimy o tenisistach jego pokroju). Teraz znów odbił się od dna.

Anderson zrobił Top-10 w zasadzie bez żadnego spektakularnego wyniku.

Dzisiaj winnery z returnu pozwoliły mu wygrać mecz, więc bym nie przesadzał. Łatwość do kończenia piłek z niczego jest nieprawdopodobna - pomijając mankamenty o których piszesz to dla mnie wciąż wielki, niewykorzystany talent.

Ciekawe na ile mu starczy zacięcia.

[Mario]

Nie widziałem, widzę z kolei 15 asów u Gasqueta, co jest jego najlepszym wynikiem w best of 3 od bardzo długiego czasu. Tak samo jak 16 u Hewitta z US Open (z 4 lata czekał na podobny wynik).

Kończące z returnu to fajna sprawa, ale idąc tym tokiem rozumowania, Dustin Brown ma kapitalny return. Niestety, ale w tym elemencie liczy się przede wszystkim solidność. Pewna, głęboka piłka, ewentualnie jakiś kierunek, szalone strzały mogą być urozmaiceniem (coś jak u Paire'a czy kiedyś Blake'a). U Tomica dominuje przepchnięty zdechlak w pół kortu, od czasu do czasu strzał - świetny recepta żeby nie dostać żadnego bp w meczu z kimś lepszym...

Łatwość do kończenia może i jest. Szkoda tylko, że ukryta pod slajsami i innymi zdechlakami, które zwykł nam prezentować.

Zdziwię się, jeśli Bernard kiedykolwiek pojawi się w top 10.

[Robertinho]

Jeśli nie nastąpi jakaś wielka zmiana w tenisie Bernarda to ja materiału na większy progres nie widzę. Return, krycie kortu, poruszanie - wszystko na poziomie katastrofalnym jeśli mówimy o zawodowym tenisie. O ile odbiór po tylu latach ciężko będzie poprawić, z kryciem kortu podobnie, tak lepsze bieganie da się chyba zrobić. Ale tu potrzeba większej harówki, nie wystarczy tylko odstawić chlania i panienek...

Wiesz, ale te trzy elementy są jednak ze sobą ściśle powiązanie. Że krycie kortu to oczywistość, ale w erze topspina, również return jest u większości graczy ściśle powiązany z poziomem dynamiki i szybkości(przykład z najwyższej półki to Nadal, bez formy jest najgorzej returnującym zawodnikiem ze ścisłej czołówki, w dobrej fizycznej dyspozycji ma to zagranie niesamowicie pewne i regularne). Mnie się zdaje, że rezerwy, że się tak wyrażę dynamiczno-gimnastyczne, są u Tomica ciągle potężne. Oczywiście pytanie, czy będzie w stanie przetrwać w jednym kawałku obciążenia treningowe na poziomie takiego Berdycha, pozostaje otwarte.

[Mario]

Mnie się wydaje, że tam wielkich rezerw nie ma. Może błędnie, ale Bernarda mam za gościa, który na wf-ie miał wielką problemy ze zrobieniem choćby przewrotu wprzód.

No i zwróć uwagę jak on returnuje większość piłek. Prawie wszystko blokiem, do tego kompletnie nie czyta kierunków, nie sądzę by tu fizyczne poprawki podziałały. Ale oczywiście warto spróbować, w najgorszym przypadku będzie "tylko" lepiej biegał (wtedy te wszystkie wrzutki zaczną mieć sens).