Tomic is a quiter.

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https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/enter ... d49a996bef

HE lasted just three nights but Bernard Tomic says his jungle experience helped him find the clarity he has been seeking that will see him back on the court “as soon as possible”.

“I’ve got to get back to where I belong,” Tomic told News Corp in an exclusive post-jungle interview. “It might take me six months but every day is going to be a step closer and every day I spend out there is a day I lose.

Out there is the South African jungle camp where Tomic was competing for $100,000 for his chosen charity — Ronald McDonald House — on reality show I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!

But even before he went in with fellow celebs including Kerry Armstrong, Fiona O’Loughlin, Josh Gibson and Jackie Gillies, he was having doubts.

Watch our exclusive video interview with Bernard Tomic above

“I shouldn’t have probably came but I am happy I came because something clicked for me in those few days in camp, it is something I will never forget but I need to go back to doing what I do and doing what I do best. Now my main focus is continuing where I started about a month and a half ago.”

Tomic is the first celebrity in four seasons of the Australian show to walk from the jungle, although some 16 have quit the British version of I’m A Celebrity in its 17 seasons.

The 25-year-old was hoping for the ultimate redemption story in the jungle, and it was working.

Just last week he told News Corp he was hoping he “can give the public a true side of me”.

“I just don’t think that it was the right time for me here,” he said. “If it was the right choice and I had nothing to regret and think back to at what I am leaving, I would have stayed, I am 100 per cent certain. It is what it is and I hope one day I can come back to this in maybe a decade and complete it.”
For now though it is tennis all the way, although, interestingly, he concedes he “will never love the game”.

“I will never love it like I did when I was 12, 13, 15 years old, I will never love it like that,” he declared. “It is a business, I like it. The last year I have been so confused and I haven’t played that much tennis and I have enjoyed my life, which I am human, I’ve deserved, I have worked for the last 16/18 years to be where I am and obviously needed a break the last sort of year. I didn’t really find the time to clear my head and clear my thoughts and doing the right thing for the last six to eight weeks and starting to get back into it and training and doing the right things, I finally won a couple of matches, I was one point away from winning my third match (at the Australian Open qualifiers), which I haven’t done since 2016 of being a top 20 player, so for me, I finally got a bit of rhythm, a bit of something that I wanted.

So how soon will we see Tomic back on the court? Very soon is the answer. He flies home to Australia today.


perhaps he missed his dad...

[Alinta]

I saw the episodes as I was genuinely interested in watching his journey through the jungle. Prior, I'd heard comments from some in the tennis world who perhaps knew him better than many. They believed his participation was a bad decision given the inner demons with which he grapples. I was hoping they were wrong.

I've read his "wake up call" comments and am far from persuaded he has found clarity in a deep sense. That is far more complex than simply returning to tennis - the world he knows - a "band aid" fix. He is in a seriously bad headspace - I was hoping his clarity would be the urgency to seek professional help to overcome this. Well away from the media and public scrutiny.

[Black Orchid]

I have never watched this show. The few times I have changed channels to watch something else that comes on afterwards, and it was still running, I found it extremely annoying viewing.

What a wuss!

How can he say he needs to get back where he "belongs" when he openly concedes that he does not love the game? Without that love he will never achieve what he thinks he should. He is just going through the motions.

Personally, I think he should take up a hobby and just get on with his life. He is one player I have never really warmed to and maybe that is because he just doesn't have the passion he needs to have.

[Black Orchid]

I saw the episodes as I was genuinely interested in watching his journey through the jungle. Prior, I'd heard comments from some in the tennis world who perhaps knew him better than many. They believed his participation was a bad decision given the inner demons with which he grapples. I was hoping they were wrong.

I've read his "wake up call" comments and am far from persuaded he has found clarity in a deep sense. That is far more complex than simply returning to tennis - the world he knows - a "band aid" fix. He is in a seriously bad headspace - I was hoping his clarity would be the urgency to seek professional help to overcome this. Well away from the media and public scrutiny.

Yes, I think he is looking for what he really needs in all the wrong places. This sort of publicity is not what he should be seeking.

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mental issues should not be a TV show really...

he is worse than most thought I think... how sad so unhappy so depressed...TA needs to take a good look at itself..

after all they encourage juniors who for the most part are dictated too by a Parent..who puts their child through gods knows what..

lets hope he gets the correct treatment he may not come back...but I do hope he mends.

[Black Orchid]

I hope he finds what he needs too. It is hard to imagine what some young sports people have to endure from such a young age at the hands of their ultra competitive parents.

It's very sad.