Is Bernard Tomic’s Dad Now Head-Butting Practice Partners? It Appears To Be The Case!

Johnny Tomic needs to lay off the Jack Reacher books…maybe switch to chic lit for a bit!

May 5th, 2013 at 9:16 pm

He’s just an idiot!! If I was the practice partner I would wait until I healed up, and than find John to whoop his butt!!

May 5th, 2013 at 10:29 pm

I wonder if the law is the same in Spain as it is here in Aussieland. If that happened here the Frenchman could sue his ass off.

May 5th, 2013 at 10:46 pm

First Damir Dokic for Jelana now John Tomic for Bernard. What is with wacky Australia tennis dads/coaches. Feel sorry for Bernard.

Lots of stories and speculation around: http://www.smh.com.au/sport/tennis/im-not-in-the-jail-tomic-seniors-surprise-call-20130506-2j2gb.html

May 5th, 2013 at 11:39 pm

Head-butting John Tomic = Butthead John Tomic

May 6th, 2013 at 12:04 am

Why would anybody feel sorry for Bernard, he is the one doing stupid things and instigating fights, driving contrary to his P licence, speeding with his ferrari, losing licence, having a punch up with his mate in a hotel spa bath on the Gold Coast (police called in), refusing to practice with Hewitt two years ago (not good enough for Tomic), I bet he instigating this one too so father had to jump in to help him and of course tanking when ever he feels like it. It is not a father who is doing all those things, it is Bernard. I cannot feel sorry for such a spoiled dude full of money, after all what Tennis Australia did for him, sorry.

May 6th, 2013 at 12:30 am

@Wog boy — I see your point; but somehow i feel for Bernie too. I mean, how many of us are blessed with a talent that drives us to the top 50 in the world in our field of work before we are even 19? Sure, he is not blessed with much brains or with helpful relatives :-) So i feel a bit of, let us say, compassion for him. Well, it makes the others (especially the top 4) even more impressive — to not only have that talent but also the brains to comprehend their situations etc!

May 6th, 2013 at 12:52 am

harry,

maybe I was harsh but I just got fed up with him saying one thing and doing another. here is a good take on John Tomic.

http://m.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/tennis/if-assault-allegations-are-proven-john-tomic-must-be-thrown-out-of-tennis-for-good-writes-leo-schlink/story-fnddklvw-1226635855887

May 6th, 2013 at 1:02 am

@WB — thanks for the link. yes, his father seems to be stupid :-)

May 6th, 2013 at 1:13 am

Big Lady is thinking why ask your father to do something you can do on your own.

May 6th, 2013 at 1:17 am

@Humble Rafa: you were more humble in your posts last year :-)

May 6th, 2013 at 1:31 am

Apparently Drouet was trying to stop John hitting Bernard. What a horrible, horrible man! If he’s prepared to do that in public, what on earth is he capable of doing in private?
If Bernard has grown up in fear, with that dreadful role model, no wonder he doesn’t know how to behave.

May 6th, 2013 at 1:46 am

Ah Margot, John is stupid and hot-headed, not horrible. Yes, I wouldn’t like my nose broken :-)

May 6th, 2013 at 2:01 am

Anyway, it is interesting to find, in the article on tennis.com, that Tomic also thought that the draws were fixed, and Dokic thought the same thing. Is it really common practice?

On a lighthearted note. My son, the other day, had his fist big tennis deception. He was playing his first tennis tournament, and the rules were a bit peculiar: the matches lasted to ten, and most of the parents were acting as umpires, me excepted.

So, the parent of his opponent was the umpire in the semi, and the result went something like that: 5-5, 6-5 for my son, 8-5 for his opponent, 9-5 for his opponent… At 8-5, I corrected the umpire saying it was only 5-7, since his son missed. But at 9-5, I suddenly understood what was happening, and asked him how he could act that way. The children were eight years old, was that match so important to cheat?

The man didn’t blink. He answered that HE was the umpire, and his son won 10-6.

I was in utter disbelief.

May 6th, 2013 at 2:42 am

A confusing story in a confusing English. To be more precise, instead of 9-5, the true result was 6-7.

May 6th, 2013 at 2:44 am

Next time if the same thing occurs, go to the tournament organizers and calmly state that you want the entrance fee back in full or a rematch, for them not being able to provide a level playing field. Much wiser than starting a fight at the court. If nothing else the matter should become public enough for the next guys not to run in to the same ordeal.

May 6th, 2013 at 6:21 am

BT, they are not “Australian tennis dads/coaches”. They are Croats or whatever. It’s the sons and daughters who are nominally Aussies.

May 6th, 2013 at 7:41 am

Colin,

More than one third of Sydney population was not born in Australia, but that doesn’t make them less Australians than Anglo-Irish ones, this is the land of oportunity. There is good and bad Australians and that has nothing to do with backround.
P.S. Should we go back to 1878, to find out who were the first settlers and how did they establish new colony, better not, they were not eastern or southern Europeans or better known under derogative and insulting name “Wog” or “Dago.”

May 6th, 2013 at 8:11 am

^^ It was 1788. not 1878. when first flleet arrived in Sydney.

May 6th, 2013 at 8:15 am

What a nasty piece of work, feel sorry for Bernie that he has to call this person his father.

May 6th, 2013 at 8:18 am

@harry
Recently it was reported that John Tomic had thrown something at a waiter simply because the meal was late or not to his liking. Apparently the poor guy was injured.
“Hot headed” my foot. The man’s a horrible bully with a nasty temper.

May 6th, 2013 at 9:50 am

Here’s the story from Drouet’s perspective. Worse than I imagined. He punched his son in the jaw?

http://tinyurl.com/coc6cef

May 6th, 2013 at 10:24 am

Here’s an article I found.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/john-tomics-shame-file/story-fnecrvvd-1226635810747

If you read JOhn’s history, this latest incident really is not that surprising….

May 6th, 2013 at 10:45 am

[…] story came to light when reports of John Tomic head-butting Drouet surfaced yesterday. Drouet said the incident occurred Saturday afternoon while he and John were walking outside of […]

May 6th, 2013 at 11:13 am

@chico:

It didn’t matter. Mat finished third, and we were very happy about it. Winning is not the only thing that matters. The mother of another of his opponents was the umpire in the QF, and she behaved the way I think she should: she transformed the match in a very funny contest, joking, cheering the competitors, learning them to be fair and to shake hands at the end of the match, bringing a lot of joy to the children.

She was the “normal” parent. The other one, with his ambitions, his ugly behaviour, was perhaps a new JT. It was just an example.

May 6th, 2013 at 4:07 pm

[…] After incidents this past week, the two governing tours of tennis took swift action against John Tomic banning the father/coach of Bernard and Sara, who competes on the WTA, from all men’s and women’s events until further notice. […]

May 8th, 2013 at 9:50 am