Hellraiser Tomic quietly plots return to the big time
The party was over years ago, and his name remains the object of criticism, not to say some ridicule in many quarters, but veteran Australian bad-boy Bernard Tomic is plotting a quiet revival.
It has been some time since he was making headlines, often for the wrong reasons, but he passed a modest professional milestone at the Mallorca Country Club on Tuesday.
And brighter days could lie ahead for the 32-year-old, who has won four ATP titles and reached a high point of No.17 on the world rankings list in 2016
His Mallorca Open first-round defeat of fellow Australian Rinky Hijikata was his first win on the main Tour since the 2021 Australian Open.
The world No.248, a qualifier at the Iberian tournament, will now face home hope Roberto Bautista Agut.
Having narrowly missed the cut-off for Wimbledon qualifying, Tomic decided not to hang around in the hope of a late withdrawal in London.
Instead he packed his bags and headed to the Spanish island of Mallorca, home of 22-time Grand Slam winner Rafael Nadal, and what he hoped would be another step on the long road back.
Over the weekend he defeated Jasper De Jong, a Dutchman ranked 93 who recently won a round at the French Open, and Aleksandar Kovacevic, an American who sits at 77, to qualify for an event where the winner pockets A$250,000.
Far from the big stages of sport, Tomic has been slogging it out on the tour backwaters in lower level and Challenger events in an attempt to break back into the top 100.
It is all a distance from his colourful - and troubled - life in the limelight. The talent was there, he was once heralded as one of Australia's most promising talents, but it was so often overshadowed by brushes with various branches of officialdom, bust-ups with spectators and accusations of tanking.
He even made a much-derided and very short-lived appearance on the TV reality show I'm a Celebrity ...Get Me Out of Here in 2018.
On a darker side, there was the investigation for alleged match-fixing in 2022, though no charges were laid.
Fast forward three years and perhaps a revival stirs.
The Gold Coaster's defeat of Hijikata, who has already qualified for the main draw at Wimbledon, means he will jump to a spot just outside the top 200, which would put him in the frame to play in qualifying for the US Open in New York in late August.
Meanwhile, in an all-Australian clash at Eastbourne, James Duckworth battled past Aleksandar Vukic 6-3 6-7 (5-7) 6-1.
The party was over years ago, and his name remains the object of criticism, not to say some ridicule in many quarters, but veteran Australian bad-boy Bernard Tomic is plotting a quiet revival.
It has been some time since he was making headlines, often for the wrong reasons, but he passed a modest professional milestone at the Mallorca Country Club on Tuesday.
And brighter days could lie ahead for the 32-year-old, who has won four ATP titles and reached a high point of No.17 on the world rankings list in 2016
His Mallorca Open first-round defeat of fellow Australian Rinky Hijikata was his first win on the main Tour since the 2021 Australian Open.
The world No.248, a qualifier at the Iberian tournament, will now face home hope Roberto Bautista Agut.
Having narrowly missed the cut-off for Wimbledon qualifying, Tomic decided not to hang around in the hope of a late withdrawal in London.
Instead he packed his bags and headed to the Spanish island of Mallorca, home of 22-time Grand Slam winner Rafael Nadal, and what he hoped would be another step on the long road back.
Over the weekend he defeated Jasper De Jong, a Dutchman ranked 93 who recently won a round at the French Open, and Aleksandar Kovacevic, an American who sits at 77, to qualify for an event where the winner pockets A$250,000.
Far from the big stages of sport, Tomic has been slogging it out on the tour backwaters in lower level and Challenger events in an attempt to break back into the top 100.
It is all a distance from his colourful - and troubled - life in the limelight. The talent was there, he was once heralded as one of Australia's most promising talents, but it was so often overshadowed by brushes with various branches of officialdom, bust-ups with spectators and accusations of tanking.
He even made a much-derided and very short-lived appearance on the TV reality show I'm a Celebrity ...Get Me Out of Here in 2018.
On a darker side, there was the investigation for alleged match-fixing in 2022, though no charges were laid.
Fast forward three years and perhaps a revival stirs.
The Gold Coaster's defeat of Hijikata, who has already qualified for the main draw at Wimbledon, means he will jump to a spot just outside the top 200, which would put him in the frame to play in qualifying for the US Open in New York in late August.
Meanwhile, in an all-Australian clash at Eastbourne, James Duckworth battled past Aleksandar Vukic 6-3 6-7 (5-7) 6-1.
The party was over years ago, and his name remains the object of criticism, not to say some ridicule in many quarters, but veteran Australian bad-boy Bernard Tomic is plotting a quiet revival.
It has been some time since he was making headlines, often for the wrong reasons, but he passed a modest professional milestone at the Mallorca Country Club on Tuesday.
And brighter days could lie ahead for the 32-year-old, who has won four ATP titles and reached a high point of No.17 on the world rankings list in 2016
His Mallorca Open first-round defeat of fellow Australian Rinky Hijikata was his first win on the main Tour since the 2021 Australian Open.
The world No.248, a qualifier at the Iberian tournament, will now face home hope Roberto Bautista Agut.
Having narrowly missed the cut-off for Wimbledon qualifying, Tomic decided not to hang around in the hope of a late withdrawal in London.
Instead he packed his bags and headed to the Spanish island of Mallorca, home of 22-time Grand Slam winner Rafael Nadal, and what he hoped would be another step on the long road back.
Over the weekend he defeated Jasper De Jong, a Dutchman ranked 93 who recently won a round at the French Open, and Aleksandar Kovacevic, an American who sits at 77, to qualify for an event where the winner pockets A$250,000.
Far from the big stages of sport, Tomic has been slogging it out on the tour backwaters in lower level and Challenger events in an attempt to break back into the top 100.
It is all a distance from his colourful - and troubled - life in the limelight. The talent was there, he was once heralded as one of Australia's most promising talents, but it was so often overshadowed by brushes with various branches of officialdom, bust-ups with spectators and accusations of tanking.
He even made a much-derided and very short-lived appearance on the TV reality show I'm a Celebrity ...Get Me Out of Here in 2018.
On a darker side, there was the investigation for alleged match-fixing in 2022, though no charges were laid.
Fast forward three years and perhaps a revival stirs.
The Gold Coaster's defeat of Hijikata, who has already qualified for the main draw at Wimbledon, means he will jump to a spot just outside the top 200, which would put him in the frame to play in qualifying for the US Open in New York in late August.
Meanwhile, in an all-Australian clash at Eastbourne, James Duckworth battled past Aleksandar Vukic 6-3 6-7 (5-7) 6-1.
The party was over years ago, and his name remains the object of criticism, not to say some ridicule in many quarters, but veteran Australian bad-boy Bernard Tomic is plotting a quiet revival.
It has been some time since he was making headlines, often for the wrong reasons, but he passed a modest professional milestone at the Mallorca Country Club on Tuesday.
And brighter days could lie ahead for the 32-year-old, who has won four ATP titles and reached a high point of No.17 on the world rankings list in 2016
His Mallorca Open first-round defeat of fellow Australian Rinky Hijikata was his first win on the main Tour since the 2021 Australian Open.
The world No.248, a qualifier at the Iberian tournament, will now face home hope Roberto Bautista Agut.
Having narrowly missed the cut-off for Wimbledon qualifying, Tomic decided not to hang around in the hope of a late withdrawal in London.
Instead he packed his bags and headed to the Spanish island of Mallorca, home of 22-time Grand Slam winner Rafael Nadal, and what he hoped would be another step on the long road back.
Over the weekend he defeated Jasper De Jong, a Dutchman ranked 93 who recently won a round at the French Open, and Aleksandar Kovacevic, an American who sits at 77, to qualify for an event where the winner pockets A$250,000.
Far from the big stages of sport, Tomic has been slogging it out on the tour backwaters in lower level and Challenger events in an attempt to break back into the top 100.
It is all a distance from his colourful - and troubled - life in the limelight. The talent was there, he was once heralded as one of Australia's most promising talents, but it was so often overshadowed by brushes with various branches of officialdom, bust-ups with spectators and accusations of tanking.
He even made a much-derided and very short-lived appearance on the TV reality show I'm a Celebrity ...Get Me Out of Here in 2018.
On a darker side, there was the investigation for alleged match-fixing in 2022, though no charges were laid.
Fast forward three years and perhaps a revival stirs.
The Gold Coaster's defeat of Hijikata, who has already qualified for the main draw at Wimbledon, means he will jump to a spot just outside the top 200, which would put him in the frame to play in qualifying for the US Open in New York in late August.
Meanwhile, in an all-Australian clash at Eastbourne, James Duckworth battled past Aleksandar Vukic 6-3 6-7 (5-7) 6-1.
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Australian teenage sprinter Gout Gout crushed the 200 metres field in his first senior race abroad, bettering his own national record by two hundredths of a second to finish in 20.02 seconds at the Ostrava Golden Spike. The 17-year-old ran a textbook race in his European debut at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold event in the Czech Republic on Tuesday, crossing the line 0.17sec ahead of Cuban Reynier Mena while Briton Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake (20.60) was third. "I've felt stronger in training these last couple of months and I've felt good since I got to Europe last Thursday," Gout said. "I knew Mena would come hard at me the first 100 but I was confident I'd be close enough to come home strongly in the second part of the race which is of course my stronger part. "I felt calm but strong as I came off the turn and was confident I'd be strong enough to get the win. Another national record! Pretty happy with that, it's not a bad first up in Europe!" Gout has drawn comparisons to Jamaican great Usain Bolt and he made headlines in December when he broke Peter Norman's national record that had stood for 56 years in 20.04. The Ipswich, Queensland, teenager was confirmed in April for Australia's team for the World Championships in Tokyo in September. Meanwhile 18-year-old Cameron Myers delivered a performance of a lifetime in the men's 1500m, clocking 3:29.80 to smash his own Australian under-20 record by nearly three seconds. Finishing fourth in the hotly contested race, the performance moves Myers to third on the Australian all-time list, just 0.39 shy of Oliver Hoare's record of 3:29.41 set in 2023. He said: "My fastest races the last two years have been miles. It's a coincidence but it's really good to have a fast 1500m and I'm really pleased to get a PB and my first time under 3:30." Australian teenage sprinter Gout Gout crushed the 200 metres field in his first senior race abroad, bettering his own national record by two hundredths of a second to finish in 20.02 seconds at the Ostrava Golden Spike. The 17-year-old ran a textbook race in his European debut at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold event in the Czech Republic on Tuesday, crossing the line 0.17sec ahead of Cuban Reynier Mena while Briton Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake (20.60) was third. "I've felt stronger in training these last couple of months and I've felt good since I got to Europe last Thursday," Gout said. "I knew Mena would come hard at me the first 100 but I was confident I'd be close enough to come home strongly in the second part of the race which is of course my stronger part. "I felt calm but strong as I came off the turn and was confident I'd be strong enough to get the win. Another national record! Pretty happy with that, it's not a bad first up in Europe!" Gout has drawn comparisons to Jamaican great Usain Bolt and he made headlines in December when he broke Peter Norman's national record that had stood for 56 years in 20.04. The Ipswich, Queensland, teenager was confirmed in April for Australia's team for the World Championships in Tokyo in September. Meanwhile 18-year-old Cameron Myers delivered a performance of a lifetime in the men's 1500m, clocking 3:29.80 to smash his own Australian under-20 record by nearly three seconds. Finishing fourth in the hotly contested race, the performance moves Myers to third on the Australian all-time list, just 0.39 shy of Oliver Hoare's record of 3:29.41 set in 2023. He said: "My fastest races the last two years have been miles. It's a coincidence but it's really good to have a fast 1500m and I'm really pleased to get a PB and my first time under 3:30." Australian teenage sprinter Gout Gout crushed the 200 metres field in his first senior race abroad, bettering his own national record by two hundredths of a second to finish in 20.02 seconds at the Ostrava Golden Spike. The 17-year-old ran a textbook race in his European debut at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold event in the Czech Republic on Tuesday, crossing the line 0.17sec ahead of Cuban Reynier Mena while Briton Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake (20.60) was third. "I've felt stronger in training these last couple of months and I've felt good since I got to Europe last Thursday," Gout said. "I knew Mena would come hard at me the first 100 but I was confident I'd be close enough to come home strongly in the second part of the race which is of course my stronger part. "I felt calm but strong as I came off the turn and was confident I'd be strong enough to get the win. Another national record! Pretty happy with that, it's not a bad first up in Europe!" Gout has drawn comparisons to Jamaican great Usain Bolt and he made headlines in December when he broke Peter Norman's national record that had stood for 56 years in 20.04. The Ipswich, Queensland, teenager was confirmed in April for Australia's team for the World Championships in Tokyo in September. Meanwhile 18-year-old Cameron Myers delivered a performance of a lifetime in the men's 1500m, clocking 3:29.80 to smash his own Australian under-20 record by nearly three seconds. Finishing fourth in the hotly contested race, the performance moves Myers to third on the Australian all-time list, just 0.39 shy of Oliver Hoare's record of 3:29.41 set in 2023. He said: "My fastest races the last two years have been miles. It's a coincidence but it's really good to have a fast 1500m and I'm really pleased to get a PB and my first time under 3:30."
