Tennis: ‘Unfit Tomic looks like a lost soul’

SYDNEY: Bernard Tomic looks like a ‘lost soul’ out on the tennis court and is simply not fit enough to compete at the top level of tennis at the moment, according to his first coach. After a breakthrough year in 2011 and rising to number 27 in the world earlier this year, Australian Tomic has suffered a slump in form and a long run of first-round losses. Neil Guiney, who nurtured Tomic’s talent from the age of seven, said he could barely watch his former protege play any more. “There is no inventiveness,” said Guiney. “He is not fit enough to do what he is trying to do and once his bubble is burst or he loses a set, it just gets worse. You don’t see him dig in. It is every match now. I can hardly bear to watch him. He is going nowhere.”

Published in The Express Tribune, November 2^nd, 2012.