Bernard Tomic

Plays with a double-handed backhand...Started playing tennis aged seven...Father, John, started work driving taxis; mother, Ady, was a biomedical scientist; sister, Sara, also plays tennis...Favourite surface is grass...Idols growing up were Pete Sampras, Lance Armstrong, Ian Thorpe and Michael Jordan...Hobbies include basketball, football and table tennis...Likes Eminem and 50 Cent...As a junior he won the 2008 Australian Open - aged 15, the youngest player in tournament history - 2009 US Open titles and the under-12, under-14 and under-16 Orange Bowls...Made his Davis Cup debut for Australia in 2009.

2012 -- The No. 2 Australian (behind No. 49 Matosevic) was youngest player in Top 100 for 2nd straight year highlighted by SF in opening week of season in Brisbane (l. to Murray) and 3 QF results...In Grand Slam play, advanced to 4R on home soil at Australian Open (d. Verdasco, Querrey, Dolgopolov, l. to Federer). Lost in 2R at Roland Garros (d. Haider-Maurer, l. to Giraldo) and US Open (d. Berlocq, l. to Roddick)...Played in 2 Davis Cup ties and went 3-1 in singles (1-1 vs Germany in World Group play-off tie in Hamburg, d. Stebe, l. to F. Mayer)...Compiled records of 17-13 on hard, 8-10 on clay and 1-4 on grass. Went 0-6 vs. Top 10 opponents and highest-ranked win came over No. 13 Dolgopolov at Australian Open... 

2011 -- The top Aussie was youngest player (19) in year-end Top 100 on ATP World Tour…He won 16 matches and reached 2 QF, including at Wimbledon where he posted his 1st Top 10 win over No. 5 Soderling (l. to Djokovic) as a qualifier...In other Grand Slams, reached 3R at Australian Open (l. to Nadal), 1R at Roland Garros and 2R at US Open...Finished season with a 5-3 mark, reaching QF in Tokyo (l. to Fish), 3R at Shanghai (d. No. 9 Fish, l. to Dolgopolov) and 2R in Stockholm (l. to No. 10 Monfils)...Played Davis Cup for his country and went 2-1 in singles in 2 ties, defeating No. 19 Wawrinka in World Group playoff tie in Sydney (l. to Federer in four sets)...In Challenger play, compiled a 13-5 match record, with runner-up at Caloundra (l. to Zemlja) in February and SF at Burnie (l. to Guccione), both on home soil…In June, reached back-to-back SF in Nottingham...Went 2-5 vs. Top 10 opponents and compiled marks of 11-12 on hard, 5-2 on grass and 0-1 on clay….Also 13-4 in TB sets…Earned a career-high $499,060...

2010 -- Began season at Brisbane...As a wild card at the Australian Open, lost to Cilic over five sets in the 2nd RD...Selected to represent Australia in Davis Cup tie versus Chinese Taipei in March...Qualified for Wimbledon (l. to Fish)...Won one ATP Challenger Tour title at Burnie on 7 February (d. G. Jones)...Finished the year ranked World No. 208...

2009 -- Given wild card into Brisbane, losing to Verdasco in 1st RD...As a wild card at the Australian Open beat Starace in 1st RD, before losing to G. Muller in four sets...Received a wild card into Roland Garros (l. to Kohlschreiber)...Won the 2009 US Open junior title, beating Chase Buchanan 61 63 in the final...Won one ATP Challenger Tour title at Melbourne on 29 February (d. Matosevic)...Finished the year ranked World No. 286...

2008 -- Was 13-11 in Futures, reaching 1st final in Indonesia (l. to Sugita)...

2013 

The Australian won his first ATP World Tour title in Sydney (d. Anderson in three sets)…Became ninth different Australian to win the Sydney title in the Open Era and the first to do so since Hewitt in 2005…On 14 January, jumped from No. 64 to No. 43…Lost to Federer in 3R at Australian Open...Had streak of 76 games won in a row from QF in Sydney until opening game of Federer match..

Saved 1 M.P. versus Klizan in 76(7) 3rd set TB win in Marseille 1R…On 22 February, failed to convert 5 M.P. versus Tsonga in Marseille QFs to lose 76(10) in 3rd set…On 26 February, retired in Dubai 1R versus Hanescu at 23 due to illness...

With Raonic, fell in ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Monte-Carlo doubles SFs (l. to Bryans)…On 28 May, retired with right hamstring injury at 12 in third set versus Hanescu in Roland Garros 1R…On 13 June, withdrew from Queen’s Club doubles (w/Hewitt) due to a right hamstring injury...