{"id":32517,"date":"2021-02-08T08:43:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T09:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=32517"},"modified":"2021-02-08T11:07:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T11:07:04","slug":"tomic-breaks-sad-australian-open-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=32517","title":{"rendered":"Tomic breaks sad Australian Open streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/australian-open-2021-results-live-kyrgios-williams-djokovic-news-highlights-videos\/323583a2-0384-49f6-8909-cbe45dfc88f0\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Australian tennis bad boy Bernard Tomic has advanced to the second round of the Australian Open for the first time since 2017\">Australian tennis bad boy Bernard Tomic has advanced to the second round of the Australian Open for the first time since 2017<\/a>, earning himself a minimum of $150,000 in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old was piggy-backed to the next stage by Japan&#x27;s Yuichi Sugita, who was forced to retire due to injury during the third set. By that point Tomic had seized a commanding position in the match, fighting back after dropping the first set to lead 3-6 6-1 4-1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9now.app.link\/fPnKQ6gxndb\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Watch the Australian Open with live streams of every court at 9Now. Click here to start watching!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Watch the Australian Open with live streams of every court at 9Now. Click here to start watching!<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6230045880001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/02\/341192\/pickerImage.jpg\" alt=\"Australian Open: Bernard Tomic v Yuichi Sugita\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckkwfrnrk002x0gpexecjqj87\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sugita retired soon after calling for a trainer to receive medical attention, with the world No.104 having plaster applied to the left side of his torso.<\/p>\n<p>He resumed the match after a brief break but threw in the towel soon after, gifting Tomic his first main draw win at his home grand slam in four years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattencarnacion\/status\/1358708834135515137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattencarnacion\/status\/1358708834135515137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwos\/status\/1358708946618507265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwos\/status\/1358708946618507265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisAustralia\/status\/1358706114540367872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisAustralia\/status\/1358706114540367872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josemorgado\/status\/1358706136740995078?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/josemorgado\/status\/1358706136740995078?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Australian tennis bad boy Bernard Tomic has advanced to the second round of the Australian Open for the first time since 2017, earning himself a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=32517\" title=\"Tomic breaks sad Australian Open streak\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32519,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32517\/revisions\/32519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}