In the feature match on Saturday, Andy Murray played Bernard Tomic in the second round. For Andy Murray, this event has given him trouble in the past. Indeed, following both his defeat in 2010 to Roger Federer, Murray went in a funk. While a quaterfinal loss to Robin Sodering in Indian Wells wasn't exactly horrible,
Before we get to Federer, let's hit some of the upsets of the day. The biggest upset of the day was David Ferrer losing to Kevin Anderson, 36 64 63. Ferrer had chances to break in the second set, but didn't while Anderson did break. The match was a combination of Anderson being aggressive off
Bernard Tomic almost didn't get out of the first round, facing one of last year's new upstart, Martin Klizan, but he managed a third set win. He had a comfortable win against Somdev Devvarman in the second round. But his big challenge was the top-ranked Frenchman, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Last year, Tomic showed a great deal
Bernard Tomic seemed to be continuing a disconcerting streak from last year. Plays well in Australia. Plays indifferently outside the country. To be fair, last week, in Rotterdam, he was pitted against Grigor Dimitrov, who has been having a great year, moving into the top 40 with a semifinal appearance last week. This week, Tomic
Many local fans looked at the potential third round match between Roger Federer and Bernard Tomic with delight. Much like last year, Tomic started the pre Australian Open warm up strongly. Last year, Tomic used his slow slices and unorthodox hitting to get himself past a powerful, but erratic Fernando Verdasco. Then, he met Roger
Since I missed Day 4, let's recap. The top seeds, Roger Federer and Andy Murray, had few problems. Despite Davydenko recently reaching the Doha finals, this Davydenko was not the same as 2010 who was fresh off a win at London in 2009 and was in the top ten. Federer had too many answers for
Last year, at this time, Bernard Tomic was playing an exhibition in Kooyong which he won. He had a strong lead heading into the Australian Open. Despite being pushed to five sets by Fernando Verdasco and being down two sets to none, Tomic won and then made it to the fourth round. People thought Tomic
2012 was not a good year for Bernard Tomic. It didn't start that way, of course. At the start of 2012, Tomic looked, for all the world, that he and Milos Raonic would fight for best newcomer of the year. He reached the semis of Brisbane losing to Andy Murray. He won an exhibition where
With the start of the new year, the tennis cycle starts afresh. It was only about 6 weeks ago that the last official ATP event was played, namely, the Davis Cup finals. Since then, some players have used the extra time for exhibitions. Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Juan Martin del Potro, and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga were
Depending on when you asked, the "next generation" of tennis players--the ones after the highly successful group of Murray, Djokovic, Nadal, and del Potro--were going to come from Ryan Harrison, Grigor Dimitrov, Milos Raonic, and Bernard Tomic. Of the four, it turns out only Raonic has made significant leaps and is likely to be the
