Coach and TV analyst Darren Cahill says that Bernard Tomic’s physical improvements have made him a more formidable player, and that fitness will be the key for the 19-year-old Australian in 2012
"His movement is far improved on what it was 12 months ago, and also his recovery, which is going to be important for him,'' Cahill told the Age. "If he's going to play at the top level, against Top 10 players, week in week out, and put together those two and three and four good matches in a row, that's where the big improvement has to come from, and it looks like he's on the right path. He has more of a man's body these days. He's got a man's head, that's for sure. He's got a really intelligent tennis brain and he can find angles of the court that a lot of players can't find. He's got that uncanny ability to put the ball in an uncomfortable position, to change the pace of the ball, to give it a different spin, and not too many tennis players can do that."