Wywiad z Tomiciem po spotkaniu 1 rundy:

An interview with:
BERNARD TOMIC

THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.

Q. Did you have difficulty with the rain delays and maintaining your concentration?

BERNARD TOMIC: Yeah, I did. It was kind of strange because that last set, you know, I saw this massive cloud going over me. I was like praying to finish it, but it was getting closer and closer.

I was happy I served for the match and got it at the end.

Q. Rubbing your eyes a lot during the last set. Was it the wind, too? Dust out there?

BERNARD TOMIC: Yeah, and the light and everything was just a little bit, I don't know, it was funny. But, you know, if it had gone to four it would have been a problem for me, so I was happy to finish it in the third.

Q. What pleased you most about the match tonight?

BERNARD TOMIC: Well, I didn't hit that many unforced errors. I got a lot of balls back. That's what gave me the first and second set. That's what I think I need to, you know, work on tomorrow a little bit more, hit aggressively a little bit if I want to have a chance in the next round.

Q. Were you very conservative tonight, did you think?

BERNARD TOMIC: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I knew I had to get off the court as soon as possible.

Q. Had to mix that with the patience of making sure you kept it in play all the time. How did you work those two against each other?

BERNARD TOMIC: I didn't want to rush it, of course, do stupid things. I knew the rain was going to hit again, but we were lucky to finish it in the end.

You know, I was being consistent the whole match, and I think that's what got me here, he made a lot of errors.

Q. How much did those winds in Kooyong and Adelaide help you tonight?

BERNARD TOMIC: Yeah, a lot. A lot. I mean, it was windy in Adelaide and in Kooyong, and I knew what I had to do in the wind was just get a lot of balls back and wait for the other guy to miss.

Q. There's been some talk that this barney with you and Lleyton has been a distraction for you in the preparation. Is it a distraction?

BERNARD TOMIC: Not at all, no.

Q. Have you spoken to anybody from the Hewitt camp since you've been over here for the Open, and has the air been cleared at all?

BERNARD TOMIC: No, I haven't spoken to anyone.

Q. Would you like to?

BERNARD TOMIC: I don't really mind. I don't really mind.

Q. How does it feel being in the second round of your second Australian Open?

BERNARD TOMIC: Okay. Well, I did what I did last year. If I can pull off one more win, then it would be great.

Q. Last year you were quite tired during the second round.

BERNARD TOMIC: Well, hopefully it won't be 12:00 at night Rod Laver start this time.

Q. Is that still way past your bedtime?

BERNARD TOMIC: Yeah. I mean, I was getting tired then and it was like 8:00 (smiling).

Q. The fans at the start of the game, they were fantastic for you. Are you getting used to that sort of reception on the big arena here?

BERNARD TOMIC: I am. I mean, look, the crowd got me through last year, got me through today. If you had to leave because of the rain, I'm sure they got annoyed.

But in the next round, hopefully I can have as much supporters as I can.

Q. They were singing you were Australia's No. 1. Is that where you see yourself?

BERNARD TOMIC: It's hard to say that. I got to the second round. There's another match ahead of me.

Q. Looking at the next match, may be Marin Cilic. Are you confident playing him?

BERNARD TOMIC: You know, look, I know what I have to do if I play him. It's definitely hold my serve for a while. I'm going to try my best.

I think I can compete now. We'll see when it starts.

Q. What about if it's Santoro?

BERNARD TOMIC: Well, I don't know. I'm going to see and look at a few players that I play tomorrow on video, see as much as I can do to help me in the next round.

http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/new … 84609.html

  Tomic loses second round marathon 

Deep into Thursday morning, seventeen year-old Australian wunderkind Bernard Tomic proved the hype about his future is well-founded, after a fierce battle with Croatian number 14 seed Marin Cilic for a place in the third round of the Australian Open.

Cilic eventually won the grinding three hour, 48 minute marathon 6-7, 3-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 at 2.08am

Cilic broke the Tomic serve in the ninth game of the deciding set to take a 5-4 lead. Tomic fought out the match to the end, with several long rallies in the final game, but the more experienced baseliner had the winners when it mattered.

After a nine-minute eighth game, Cilic eventually held his serve to level up the epic clash 4-4. Tomic twice held break points, and if he had converted, he would have been serving for victory.

At 1.40am, Tomic won the fifth game to take a 3-2 lead in the deciding set, after a ten minute battle to hold his serve that went to deuce several times. Despite sapping, hard-hitting 20-shot rallies, the young Australian was still finding reserves of skill and energy as the match stretched beyond 200 minutes.

Tomic, ranked 289, was a $4.70 outsider with Betfair to win the match as it went into its fifth and deciding set, but the tenacious Queenslander had already bounced back from losing the second set, exceeding expectations with his stamina in pushing his 21 year-old opponent.

Tomic hit only four aces, compared to the 198cm Croat's 25, but his persistent ground shots kept him in the match, and his ability to rejuvenate himself after suffering disappointments surprised Cilic, who made the fourth round of this tournament last year.

Tomic hit only 33 winners, compared to Cilic's 91, but he made fewer unforced errors (63-70), and his consistency, resolve and maturity, backed by the hardy remnants of the evening session crowd at Rod Laver Arena, saw the match go the distance.

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/tennis/t … -mm13.html

Teenaged Tomic no night owl

Teenaged Aussie hope Bernard Tomic had a few complaints about losing a five-set late-night match at the Australian Open.

The 17-year-old, German-born of Croatian heritage and tipped as the future of the talent-short local game, didn't finish up until 2 am, an hour which the loser said was "ridiculous."

"To finish at this time, it's tough, but I have no excuses," said Tomic, beaten by Croatian 14th seed Marin Cilic. "If I'd have played during the day, which I requested, it could have been all changed.

"I think I should have won. But I'm proud of the way I played. It's difficult for me. I requested to play during the day, and it didn't happen, I think it's ridiculous."

The 2008 Melbourne junior winner said that he might have to start 2 am training sessions if this kind of scheduling continues at an event where Lleyton Hewitt finished a match win at 4:30 am two years ago.

"Name me any sport you play at 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning, except this. Especially me, at my age, it's difficult."

The Open, frequent target of scheduling criticism, made a change this year, starting evening sessions 30 minutes earlier at 7 pm and putting the most important match first. Prior to Tomic, Justine Henin beat Elena Dementieva in a contest which took just short of three hours.

http://www.tennistalk.com/en/news/20100 … _night_owl

Ja nie mam nic przeciwko roœniêciu reprezentacji Chorwacji w si³ê.

Bizon napisał:

Oj, obawiam sie ze nie bylby to w tym momencie najlepszy pomysl. Pokonczyly by sie WC do australisjkich turniejow i tyle bysmy Tomica widzieli

ZamieniÂłby te dzikie karty na WC do Zagrzebia i Umag.

Bernard Tomic raises Aussie spirits

THE engravers have finished for 2010, the $24 million in prizemoney has been distributed and more than 600,000 spectators at Melbourne Park have been treated to memories many will cherish for the rest of their lives.

What have we gleaned in the past fortnight at this country's biggest and most internationally exposed sporting event?

For me, the two finals came as no surprise. Serena Williams and Roger Federer were always going to live up to their rankings, while Justine Henin, on the comeback trail, and Andy Murray, an elite competitor, were magnificent from day one.

What did shock many was the emergence of the Chinese girls, Zheng Jie and Li Na, who reached the semi-finals and underlined the impact that a country with such a massive population will have on our game in the decade ahead.

To see Ken Rosewall, a four-time winner, chatting to Juan Martin del Potro, the US Open champ, is to understand the changing face of the men's game.

Like many of the heroes of yesteryear, Rosewall is more than 30cm shorter. The men's locker-room looked more like a basketball changing room. Guys such as Ivo Karlovic, Marin Cilic, Del Potro and John Isner rocket their serves from a mighty height and back them up with supersonic ground shots. For them the power game is alive and thriving.

The pressure and tempo of the modern game continue to take a terrible toll, especially among the men. Novak Djokovic may have built up but it was his stomach that brought him undone in his quarter-final with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Two of the crowd's favourites, our own Lleyton Hewitt and Spain's Rafael Nadal, are prime examples of what the constant pounding does to the body. Hewitt is now sidelined after his good hip gave way, while the future of Nadal rests on wonky knees.

I wonder if we have seen the end of the glory days for the flamboyant Spaniard.

While Federer is gliding, ever so smoothly, these two put enormous pressure on every joint with their style of play.

Again the Eastern European girls failed to come to terms with Melbourne Park and it says something for the durability of Serena and the guts of Justine that they saw them all off.

What of the Aussies? I thought Sam Stosur was superb as she lived up to her No. 13 seeding. Her effort against Serena in the fourth round showed her star is continuing to rise.

Casey Dellacqua won through to the third round, while Alicia Molik had every chance in her first-round match against Julie Coin, of France, and allowed victory to slip from her grasp.

As always the hopes of a nation rested with Hewitt. He gave us a good run and had Marcos Baghdatis on the ropes before the Cypriot retired, but a troublesome hip was never going to allow him to threaten Federer in the fourth round.

Bernard Tomic was exceptional. In the first round he defeated Frenchman Guillaume Rufin, 19, who is the top-ranked teenager on the world circuit. Then he came close to eliminating 14th seed Cilic, the giant Croatian who fell to Murray in the semis. That Tomic led two sets to one in a marathon five-setter was one of the stories of the Open.

A couple of matches stood out. I thought the second-round match between Henin and Elena Dementieva was a cracker and I loved the Tsonga-Nicolas Almagro tussle.

Both showed us what grand slam tennis is all about.

It is obvious how much the women's game has needed Henin and Kim Clijsters to inject much-needed interest.

Murray emerged as the male player best suited and prepared to be the next world No. 1.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/berna … 5825287700

No brawo

Ostatnio edytowany przez Kubecki (07-02-2010 09:36:49)

Brawo! BĂŞdÂą z Niego ludzie.

Yannick, móg³byœ jeszcze przypomnieÌ, gdzie Bernard siêgn¹³ po swój pierwszy challengerowy tytu³? Bêdê wdziêczny, bo obecnie jestem zbyt zaspany i zbyt leniwy ¿eby poszukaÌ.

Ale Âłeb...

DziĂŞki.

Powoli ale systematycznie idziemy w gĂłrĂŞ!