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| An embarrassed Bernard, leaving the Sony Open court after a record setting defeat. - Getty Images |
Key Biscayne, Fla. - Bernard Tomic suffers the fastest loss in ATP history at the hands of Jarkko Nieminen.
The 28 minute, Sony Open match up, is the fastest completed match since the ATP started keeping such statistics in 1991.
Bernard Tomic, the former ITF Jurnior World number 2, has had many record setting successes over the years. He set the record for the youngest ever Australian Open Junior Title Win, in 2008, at age 15. A year later at age 16 Tomic made his Davis Cup Debut for Australia. On the ATP tour he has been a Wimbledon Quarterfinalist, and has been ranked as high as 27th. However, the young star has quickly become known for much more than his incredible talent, examples of which include reported tanking incidents, suspensions, feuds, and daddy issues.
His record setting performance at the Sony Open on Thursday seeks to add to his list of scandals (for which his Wikipedia page has dedicated 16 paragraphs).
Playing in his first ATP match since his controversial retirement against Rafael Nadal in the first round of the 2014 Australian Open, 21 year old Tomic, currently ranked 74th won just 13 points during his humiliating 6-0, 6-1 defeat at the Sony Open on Thursday.
Nieminen, currently ranked 40th on the ATP tour, took the first set in only 13 minutes, and lost only 3 points on serve throughout the entire 28 minute onslaught.
Having had the chance to watch Tomic win his first ITF junior title in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2006, at just 13 years of age, i've seen the immense talent which he possesses, and like many others hope that fulfills his tennis potential.
Granted he is coming back from injury, and his level of play will improve from this devastating defeat (which some would call a career low for Tomic). Nevertheless, there are many areas of his mental game that require vast improvement before he can achieve what he is truly capable of on the ATP Tour.
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