Aussie tennis participant Bernard Tomic has damaged his silence on the terrifying footage shared on social media that confirmed he being assaulted on the Gold Coast.
The 16-second clip exhibits two males standing over the physique of Tomic and trying to kick and stomp him.
Channel 10 reported the video was filmed outdoors of a tattoo parlour on the Gold Coast whereas the main points of when the assault occurred stay unclear.
Until now.
The former World No. 17 took to Instagram on Saturday evening, revealing the incident occurred “years ago”.
“Hello everyone – hope everyone is doing well,” Tomic mentioned.
“I’m here in Istanbul, Turkey, flying to USA and I haven’t been on Instagram for a couple of months and I thought I would jump on and talk about this video that has been circulating.
“Heh — it’s so funny — because that happened five or six years ago. So I have no idea why this is all going on now. I hope everyone is doing well – and, yah, peace.”
Tomic is at the moment No. 292 ranked ATP participant and he’s been battling his manner on the Challenger circuit.
He was in Istanbul for a event, the place he was knocked out within the second spherical by the Dominican Republic’s Nick Hardt in a good three-setter 6-2 3-6 7-6.
The video had made waves in Australia because the surprising footage circulated.
Along with the boys attempting to kick and stomp Tomic, he was filmed desperately attempting to cowl his face all through the size of the clip earlier than one man makes an attempt to select him up off the bottom and again to his ft.
One man regularly shouts at Tomic “get up ya dog” all through the video.
But Tomic is attempting to rebuild his profession, having come again from 825 on this planet, constructing his rating over the previous 18 months again to his present mark.
Despite his rise, it wasn’t sufficient to earn him a qualifying wildcard for the Australian Open Grand Slam earlier within the 12 months.
Tomic has fallen out of favour with Tennis Australia after he blasted Aussie tennis icon Lleyton Hewitt again in 2019.
“No one likes him any more,” Tomic mentioned after a first-round Open exit that 12 months.
“We have a lot of issues that not a lot of players are happy about. We all know who those players are. Myself, (Thanasi) Kokkinakis, (Nick) Kyrgios.”
Last season he mentioned he’d “win Wimbledon” earlier than the tip of his profession regardless of having misplaced in straight units in qualifying to then-World No. 146 Roman Safiullin.
Days later he revealed he had contracted Covid.
Along along with his outburst within the path of Hewitt, Tomic has a long-running feud with fellow Aussie Nick Kyrgios.
The two have traded verbal barbs through the years with their feud exploding over again on the finish of 2022.
The final shot of their heated confrontation got here from Kyrgios who clipped Tomic with a stinging spray.
Source: www.news.com.au
