{"id":831718,"date":"2026-07-29T17:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/831718\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T17:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:30:25","slug":"tennis-news-2026-bernard-tomic-dominates-alex-hernandez-atp-250-event-los-cabos-mexico-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/831718\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis news 2026: Bernard Tomic dominates Alex Hern\u00e1ndez ATP 250 event Los Cabos Mexico, results"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bernard Tomic<\/a>\u2019s tennis resurgence has continued, snapping a five-year drought at the ATP<\/a> 250 event in Los Cabos, Mexico.<\/p>\n

Tomic needed just 47 minutes to completely dismantle local qualifier and world No.498 Alex Hern\u00e1ndez 6-1, 6-0.<\/p>\n

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Bernard Tomic in action against Alex Hernandez.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Tomic\u2019s first hard court win on the ATP Tour since the 2021 Australian Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tomic broke in the second and fourth games of the opening set to race to a 5-0 lead. Hern\u00e1ndez finally managed to hold in the sixth, before Tomic calmly served out the set. The second set was a completely one-sided affair.<\/p>\n

The former world No.17 converted five of seven break-point chances and never faced one of his own. He also belted 15 winners and 13 aces.<\/p>\n

The win comes two weeks after he clinched a challenger title in Lincoln, USA<\/a> \u2013 Tomic\u2019s biggest title since 2018.<\/p>\n

Speaking after that victory, Tomic revealed he\u2019d only weeks earlier contemplated quitting.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbout 10 days ago, or even two weeks ago, I had a moment of doubt. I had said this year would be my last, so I guess I\u2019ll have to rethink my plans,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe start of the season wasn\u2019t easy. I was away from the courts for a few months, I was lucky enough to welcome a beautiful daughter, and I was between 160 and 170 in the world rankings. So I needed these last few months to gain points.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust two weeks ago, I was thinking: \u2018Damn, I think this will be my last year.\u2019 And then everything tarted again, so it\u2019s time to begin a new cycle. So yes\u2026 I\u2019ll probably play another 20 years!\u201d<\/p>\n

Tomic faces a tougher time of it in the second round, scheduled to play world No.26 Karen Khachanov, who enjoyed a first-round bye.<\/p>\n

Fellow Aussies Rinky Hijikata, Adam Walton and James Duckworth are also in action in Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bernard Tomic\u2019s tennis resurgence has continued, snapping a five-year drought at the ATP 250 event in Los Cabos,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-831718","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\/831718","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=831718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}