{"id":411718,"date":"2026-01-14T06:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411718\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T06:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:29:08","slug":"bernard-tomic-eliminated-in-second-round-of-qualifying-straight-sets-loss-vs-arthur-fery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411718\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Tomic eliminated in second round of qualifying, straight-sets loss vs Arthur Fery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bernard Tomic’s hopes of ending a lengthy absence from the Australian Open main draw have been dashed, going down in straight sets to Arthur Fery.<\/p>\n

The controversial Aussie star advanced to the second round of qualifying earlier in the week with a win over Hugo Dellien, but was unable to get past Fery in a 6-4, 6-2 loss.<\/p>\n

It marks a fifth-straight year that Tomic hasn’t featured in the main draw at his home grand slam, with his last appearance coming in a second-round exit in 2021.<\/p>\n

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Bernard Tomic.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

He survived four break points in the first set, with Fery leading 4-2, but it mattered little as the British player held strong on his own serve to take the advantage.<\/p>\n

Things completely fell apart in the second set as Fery established his dominance and got the job done with relative ease inside an hour and eight minutes.<\/p>\n

Tomic – the former world No.18 – did save a match point, but was unable to kickstart a comeback to bow out at 1573 Arena.<\/p>\n

Watch the Adelaide International and Australian Open qualifying live and free on 9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He finished with just nine winners compared to Fery’s 25 for the match, while also coming up with 21 unforced errors and winning less than 50 per cent of his second-serve points.<\/p>\n

The crowd in Melbourne were heavily invested in Tomic, cheering him on and chanting his name throughout the tough defeat, before clapping him off post-match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bernard Tomic’s hopes of ending a lengthy absence from the Australian Open main draw have been dashed, going…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-411718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}