Answering the key questions after Bernard Tomic’s spectacular fall from grace
Tennis by Will Swanton, Scott Gullan 1st Feb 2021 5:20 AM
Premium Content I cannot shake the thought that Bernie Tomic is the saddest story in Australian sport. Celebrities get asked a corny old question all the time. What would you tell your teenage self? As Tomic emerges from his hotel, blinks at the Melbourne sun and prepares for his first match of the summer on Monday, a penny for the opposite interaction between young and older. What would the starry-eyed 14-year-old Tomic say to the world-weary 28-year-old version? Probably something along the lines of, bloody hell, old mate, what happened?