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Tomic receives Brisbane wildcard

Tomic receives Brisbane wildcard

Tennis Australia Wednesday 24 December 2008 17 Comments »

Bernard Tomic was today announced as the first Australian wildcard to join the men’s draw at the Brisbane International this January.

The Gold Coast teenager, who just won the second Australian Money Tournament at Melbourne Park last weekend, joins world No.3 Novak Djokovic, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Fernando Verdasco in the men’s draw.

Brisbane International Tournament Director Steve Ayles said he is delighted have an Australian rising junior as part of the Brisbane International.

“Tomic shows a lot of promise and it will be fantastic for him to debut on the ATP tour in his home state at his home-town tournament.

“The Brisbane International will be a great learning curve for Tomic where he will be able to experience some top level tennis against some of the best players in the world.

“It will be great to see him step up in front of a home crowd where he will have some strong support.”

At the age of 15, Tomic won the Australian Open boys’ singles title and reached the semifinal of the boys’ singles at Wimbledon and the quarterfinals at the French Open in 2008.

He was selected for his first Davis Cup squad in September this year and is the first player in history to win the 12/u, 14/u, and 16/u Orange Bowl trophies in the world junior championships in Florida.

Having just made the transition to the men’s circuit, Tomic has played some lower tier Futures tournaments in Australia and just missed out on a quarterfinal birth at the Australian Open wildcard play-off,  missing out to Colin Ebelthite who went on to become the overall winner.

Tickets are now on sale for the Brisbane International through Ticketek, with reserved stadium seating starting at just $24.90.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.ticketek.com.au or 1300 888 104.


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  • michael

    give the wildcard too john millman he won a pro tournment in victoria

  • vito

    tomic, the aussie dream??

  • zac

    yeh you’re right on michael – give a wildcard to John Millman. great player and a local boy as well.

  • Dmitriy

    Give the wildcard to matheson klein!
    hes da man!

  • Colin Rayner

    Bernard is the most natural tennis player I have ever seen. In winning the Orange bowl 3 times in 3 different age levels, he eclipsed all previous records. At 15 years and 3 months of age he was the youngest to ever win a junior grand slam, when he won the Australian Junior Open this year. Bernard’s talent is internationally recognised. It’s time for Australians to give him the support he deserves.

  • GC

    Bring it on Tomic. When he’s competing in the final rounds of the slams in 4-5 years, no-one will be complaining.

  • Jen

    Sent home from France for giving up, bad behaviour in the Davis Cup squad, walk off during a match he was down in Perth recently. And he is rewarded with a wildcard??

    Surely there are other Queensland players that deserve such an award such as our number one ranked player Smeets who came through qualifying this year at the US Open and took Mardy Fish to four sets or Millman who defeated eventual Aussie Open wildcard winner Ebelthite as well as winning a Men’s Future in Victoria in October.

  • chris

    Tomic does have the support of the Australian public. Good luck to him in Brisbane and it’s a smart move by the tournament organisers

  • michael w

    Joel lindner should a wildcard hes tough and hes deserves it and I agree with michael so should john millman, tomic should not get it he has not won a pro tournment.

  • Nathan

    Onya Bernard. Good for him to experience his first official tour event in his home state

  • jim

    hopefully john Millman and Robert smeets will at least get a wildcard into qualies

  • http://[email protected].au paul donovan

    bernard is very dedicated to doing well in his tennis future for australia and himself.we need to support him as much as possible.he has the potential to be a future australian champion

  • Sonny

    We all wish Bernard all the very best in his tennis, people who leave negative comments are very un – Australian we should support our young talent. and then they will reward us with loyalty.

    Go Hard Bernard!!

  • Jen

    Do do other young australians who don’t get anywhere near the amount of support bernard gets

  • http://tennis michael

    come on g unit!

  • http://tennis michael

    this guy is a human!

  • Mike

    I knew it not good enough

    John millman would of done better

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