Australian bad boy Bernard Tomic has shrugged off his Miami arrest and banishment from the Davis Cup team to successfully defend his ATP title here on Sunday.
Tomic was accused of hitting “rock bottom” by Tennis Australia’s high performance chief Pat Rafter after being charged for resisting arrest and trespass in relation to a noisy hotel room party he hosted earlier this month.
However, the negative attention does not appear to have affected the controversial 22-year-old’s tennis.
He battled past Frenchman Adrian Mannarino 6-1, 3-6, 6-2 in Sunday’s final of the Claro Open to join Grigor Dimitrov and Milos Raonic as the only players born in the 1990s to win three tour titles.
“It’s been a very good year,” Tomic said on the ATP website. “I started at No. 70 (in world rankings) and am now close to No. 20. It’s been a good seven months.
“I’ll try to play well the next three months and have the chance to be in the top 15.”
At Umag, Austrian Dominic Thiem beat Portuguese Joao Sousa 6-4, 6-1 to win the 26th edition of the Konzum Croatia Open.
The 21-year-old Austrian needed just one hour to win his second career ATP title.
The results: At Bogota (Colombia): ATP Colombia Open: Final: Bernard Tomic (Aus) bt Adrian Mannarino (Fra) 6-1, 3-6, 6-2.
At Umag (Croatia): ATP Konzum Croatia Open: Final: Dominic Thiem (Aut) bt Joao Sousa (Por) 6-4, 6-1.
At Hamburg (Germany): bet-at-home Open: First round: Jerzy Janowicz bt Taro Daniel 6-4, 6-3; Florian Mayer bt Albert Montanes 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.
