Thursday, July 6, 2017

Tomic fined $15K for Wimbledon news conference

Tomic fined $15K for Wimbledon news conference

Bernard Tomic was fined $15,000 at Wimbledon for what he said during the news conference.

The fine amounts to a third of Tomic's prize money: First-round losers this year earn 35,000 pounds (about $45,000).

The penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct was announced Thursday, two days after Tomic spoke about feeling "a little bit bored out there" during his match.

Tomic also said he "just couldn't find any motivation" to compete and acknowledged that when he called for a medical timeout, he was trying to "break a bit of momentum."