Terrifying footage of Australian tennis participant Bernard Tomic has been shared on social media.
The 16 second clip exhibits two males standing over the physique of Tomic and trying to kick and stomp him.
Tomic, in an all gray tracksuit, is desperately making an attempt to cowl his face all through the size of the clip earlier than one man makes an attempt to choose him up off the bottom and again to his ft.
The identities of the 2 males trying to assault the previous world quantity 17 stay unknown together with the identification of the person filming.
Channel 10 reported the video was filmed exterior of a tattoo parlour on the Gold Coast whereas the small print of when the assault occurred stay unclear.
One man frequently shouts at Tomic “get up ya dog” all through the video.
Tomic competed in a challenger occasion in Istanbul the place he misplaced within the spherical of 16 on Thursday, September 7 in three units.
news.com.au has contacted QLD police.
The 30-year-old Queenslander has loved a rankings rebound after falling to quantity 825 on the earth.
Over the previous 18 months he has labored his means again to now sit because the world quantity 292.
Despite his rise it wasn’t sufficient to earn him a qualifying wildcard for the Australian Open Grand Slam earlier within the yr.
Australian Open boss Craig Tiley revealed why Tomic in the end missed out on a wildcard slot for the match.
“Our team that looks at the decision has a team of people that looks at the decision of wildcards,” Tiley stated.
“(They look at) the player coming in, the strength of their play, what events they’ve been playing, how much they’ve been playing, are they the younger part of our future generation. There’s many factors that go into it.”
WARNING: Distressing footage
Tomic has fallen out of favour with Tennis Australia after he blasted Aussie tennis icon Lleyton Hewitt again in 2019.
Along together 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 disagreement got here from Kyrgios who clipped Tomic with a stinging spray.
Source: www.news.com.au
