Tomic scores easy win
GOLD Coast tennis player Bernard Tomic has led Australia’s opening-day Wimbledon qualifying charge.
Tomic, 25, cruised into the second round of qualifying for the grand slam event with a 7-6 (7-1), 6-3 win over Italian Matteo Donati at the Bank of England sports club in London.
The former world No.17 is playing qualifiers for the All England Championships for the first time since 2011 when he made it all the way to the quarter-finals as an 18-year-old.
Tomic’s appearance at Wimbledon last year earned him a $20,000 fine for admitting he feigned injury and was “a little bored” during his firstround loss to Mischa Zverev.
Fellow Australians Thanasi Kokkinakis, Alex Bolt, Jason Kubler and John-Patrick Smith also won in the first round.