Tomic apologises after responding to heckler
Australian tennis player Bernard Tomic is in trouble for insulting comments he made to a spectator.
Tomic then added “I will give you some money to make you feel good”.
Tomic, the son of a Croatian father and Bosnian mother, had immigrated to Australia when he was a boy.
“It was really important for me to hold my ground and stay strong and really whenever I had my chance and an opportunity to take advantage of that”, Stosur said.
Bernard Tomic apologized for an ugly little exchange with a heckler during his U.S. Open match Tuesday.
Tomic refused to go into detail, other than to say “it was negative stuff”, but his manager David Drysdale later said the 23-year-old was a victim of some vulgar abuse.
“I just saw he left and the crowd clapped a bit but I have no idea who he is”. I didn’t know who it was because I was just focusing on the court.
“I knew there were a lot of aces because there was a period (in the second set) when nearly every serve was an ace … but I didn’t know it was this many”, he told media.
“There was some stuff in the background as I was playing balls and returning”. However, the microphone didn’t pick up what the heckler had said. But it was the Aussie’s attitude during the match that was criticized by players and fans after he was caught on video shouting sexually explicit rants at a heckling fan.
Daria Gavrilova was bundled out 6-4 6-4 in her first round match against Czech Lucie Safarova.
In the opening game, he was warned by the umpire for aggressively hitting a ball, after a rally where he was deemed to be too close to a linesman. “I have people, lawyers, working on that side of it”, Bouchard said of the case, claiming it hadn’t factored in her loss.
While he managed to regain his composure after the incident to win the third set, Tomic was still beaten 6-4, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7/0), and it’s likely he’ll have some explaining to do.
“They have their rules. You have one job”, he said at one point.