MELBOURNE — Australian bad boy Bernard Tomic has shrugged off his Miami arrest and banishment from the Davis Cup team to successfully defend his ATP title in Bogota. Tomic was accused of hitting “rock bottom” by Tennis Australia's high performance chief Pat Rafter after being charged for resisting arrest and trespass in relation to a noisy hotel room party he hosted earlier this month. However, the negative attention does not appear to have affected the controversial 22-year-old's tennis. He battled past Frenchman Adrian Mannarino 6-1, 3-6, 6-2 in Sunday's final of the Claro Open to join Grigor Dimitrov and Milos Raonic as the only players born in the 1990s to win three tour titles. “It's been a very good year,” Tomic said on the ATP website. “I started at No. 70 (in world rankings) and am now close to No. 20. It's been a good seven months. “I'll try to play well the next three months and have the chance to be in the Top 15.” Tomic, whose ranking has improved to 25 from 29, was kicked out of the Davis Cup team after a tirade against Tennis Australia (TA) officials at Wimbledon. Australia won its quarterfinal tie against Kazakhstan without him but want him back in the side for the semifinal against Britain in September. TA offered peace talks with Tomic to facilitate that but he rejected the overture last week and said the feud would continue as long as the governing body declined to fund his sister's development. Sara Tomic plays mostly second-tier ITF tournaments but TA cut her funding, citing the uncooperative attitude of her father. Bernard Tomic slammed TA's decision at Wimbledon and publicly criticized a number of Australian officials in an extraordinary outburst. Tsurenko beats Radwanska Lesia Tsurenko won her first WTA Tour title Sunday after beating Urszula Radwanska in the final of the Istanbul Cup. The Ukrainian saw off her Polish counterpart in straight sets, 7-5, 6-1. Tsurenko saved three set points on serve in the opening set before winning nine of the next ten games to secure her maiden title in one hour and 32 minutes. Thiem wins in Croatia Dominik Thiem of Austria beat Joao Sousa of Portugal 6-4, 6-1 to win the Croatia Open Sunday. Thiem became the first Austrian to win the title since Thomas Muster in 1995. After defeating top-seeded Gael Monfils of France in the semifinals he stunned Sousa in just 61 minutes. This is his second career title after victory in the Open de Nice in May in front of the watching World No.1 Novak Djokovic, who watched from the stands. “Today was very special day. We were watched by world's No. 1 Novak Djokovic,” Thiem said. “Usually he is the one who entertains us with great tennis and today we turned it around.” — Agencies
