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Southern Adult Indoor Open Review

A change of pace for today's post - a tournament review! This review is aimed more at the adult Men's Open competitor than spectators, although there is some excellent tennis to be seen. The Southern Adult Indoor Open is hosted by the Racquet Club of Memphis and is a pre-cursor to the excellent US National Indoor Tennis Championships at the same venue. For those who aren't familiar with it, the US National Indoor Tennis Championships is an indoor ATP/WTA event held each year at the Racquet Club, and is the only ATP/WTA level professional event in the world to be held at a private club. The list of past champions is impressive, including names like Roddick, Haas, Sampras, Edberg, Agassi and Connors.

The Southern Adult Indoor Open is held after Christmas each year (typically on or around the 27th of December) and grants the winner a wild-card into the qualifying draw for the National Championships in February. It draws college and Future-level players from all over the south, as well as nationally ranked juniors and others. Let's take a quick run-down of all of the major points regarding the tournament...

Breaking Down Bernard Tomic

The Hopman Cup, named for legendary Australian Davis Cup Captain Harry Hopman, is little more than an international glorified exhibition tournament. Featuring two-person teams (one player of each gender) from eight different nations, the round-robin format allows for some guaranteed matches leading into the start of the tennis season. Given the laid-back nature of the affair, Bernard Tomic's straight set defeat of Novak Djokovic earlier today will hardly send shock-waves through the world of tennis. It may however, cause at least a ripple. After a promising start to his professional career with a quarter-final run at Wimbledon in 2011 (where he lost in 4 sets to eventual champion.. Novak Djokovic), Tomic took a rather large step backwards in 2012 where his poor on-court performance wasn't helped by off-court drama such as a bizarre stand-off with Australian police and another incident involving Tomic fighting his friend and also possibly police in October. With the year ending so poorly for the young Australia, the shock victory over Djokovic brings us to the topic of today's update:

Is Bernard Tomic's Hopman Cup win over Djokovic more accident or omen? Was this a fluke victory over a sub-par Novak in a meaningless exhibition, or is Tomic primed to take his tennis career to the next level in 2013?