Tennis might actually need Bernard Tomic

The enfant terrible is desperately unlikeable and that might not be a bad thing for tennis right now, writes Emmet Ryan

Tomic plays a forehand during the first round match against Mischa Zverev Pic: Getty

Bernie was bored, really bored. In the course of his first round loss at Wimbledon, the Australian enfant terrible called for his trainer for an injury he later admitted to not having. In the press conference Tomic was brutally honest about his lack of motivation and general boredom with it.

Monocles were popped across the world in horror at Tomic's comments. On BBC's coverage later that evening,Martina Navratilova, Pat Cash, and Clare Balding rounded on his disgraceful behaviour and railed that if he doesn't like it, then he ought to pack it in.