It's 15 years since an Aussie kid shook up Wimbledon by reaching the quarter-finals at the tender age of 18, the youngest to get to that stage of the men's draw since the 1985 wunderkind champ himself, Boris Becker.
But now at 33 and having gone through an extraordinary undulating, polarising career during which he was once dubbed the tour 'bad boy' who'd squandered an enviable talent, Bernard Tomic is back in London, a very changed, admirable figure.
The misunderstood youngster once perceived to not care a jot about the sport is not afraid these days to admit he's a bloke who really needs his tennis as he battles on in its unglamorous hinterland, trying to return to a grand slam main draw for the first time in five years.
