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Bernard Tomic is growing in confidence after Wimbledon.

As he walked away from his breakthrough run to this year’s Wimbledon quarter-finals, Australian teenager Bernard Tomic dared to dream about returning to the hallowed turf in 12 months time to challenge for an Olympic medal.

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Bernard Tomic signs autographs after his unexpected victory over Robin Soderling. Photo: Getty Images

Nobody likes being beaten by a kid. And being a two-time French Open finalist and world No.5 makes such a loss that bit harder to take. That much could be gathered from Robin Soderling’s post-match news conference after his straight-sets defeat to 18-year-old Bernard Tomic at Wimbledon. The big Swede explained that he had been suffering from stomach problems and was in no mood to start praising Tomic’s breakthrough performance in their third-round match. Asked if Tomic took him by surprise by winning the opening set in 17 minutes, Soderling said: ”No, not really. He played a pretty good first set.” Does Tomic have a top-10 game in him? ”I don’t know. I’m not the coach. You should ask someone else.” Is he the best 18-year-old you’ve played? ”I don’t know if I ever played an 18-year-old before. I don’t know. He’s good. But I’m not the right guy to ask.”

Poised for greatness … Bernard Tomic’s stunning victory over Robin Soderling has catapulted him into the big league when it comes to the power to earn large sums through sponsorships and endorsements. Photo: GLYN KIRK

LONDON: The management team behind Bernard Tomic insists it will not be rushing to secure new sponsorship deals for the boom teenager, saying more lucrative interest from corporate backers will arise when his ranking improves even further.

Tomic, whose stunning victory over world No.5 Robin Soderling in the third round at Wimbledon drew global attention, is still only 18 but is almost universally regarded as one of the three or four most exciting young players in men’s tennis. London’s Daily Telegraph yesterday hailed him the ”new Antipodean hero” of SW19, the famed Wimbledon postcode.

His agent, Max Eisenbud – whose client portfolio at IMG also includes Maria Sharapova – has been at the All England Club to watch Tomic’s coming of age on the main circuit and he agrees the youngster is a potential heir to the throne occupied by world No.1 Rafael Nadal and fellow leading men Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer.

And he says the Australian will be an even more appealing commodity in the corporate world with an additional boost in his ranking, which is projected to rise from the high-150s to about 95, no matter the result of his fourth-round match against Belgium’s Xavier Malisse overnight.

”I’ve got to be honest, I’m not really thinking much about deals and offers,” Eisenbud said. ”It’s just development, development, development, and the other stuff will take care of itself. Ninety-five per cent of our conversations with Bernard and his family are about development, schedule, how to put him on the right path.”

IMG has long seen enormous promise in Tomic, who it signed when he was 13. His status as a budding star was further fuelled by junior grand slam titles at the 2008 Australian Open and 2009 US Open, a win over Djokovic at an exhibition tournament and then a stoic display against Nadal in the third round of the senior event at Melbourne in January.

Among the countless to stand up and take notice have been Federer and Djokovic, with the Swiss 16-time slam winner identifying Tomic as one of three emerging players he thinks can make a great impact on the game, and the Serb world No.2 telling the Herald last week the Australian could be the surprise packet of Wimbledon.

While Djokovic’s tip proved prophetic, Eisenbud prefers not to talk rankings projections. There is no question, however, how far the prominent agent believes the teenager can go. He also lumps Tomic in with the other members of this brat pack of rising players that includes Canadian Milos Raonic, Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria, American Ryan Harrison and Richard Berankis of Lithuania.

”I’m not a predictor of rankings but I think there’s a young group of kids – you could probably name four or five or them – that are in line, that will have a chance to move up in the rankings,” he said. ”Rafa and Roger and Novak are not going to be there forever. Somebody’s got to replace them down the line and I think Bernard is in that group of players that should be in the conversation.”

As for Tomic’s growing association with the Davis Cup hierarchy of Pat Rafter and Tony Roche, as well as that of his sometimes controversial father and coach John, Eisenbud argues it is simply a case of a player maturing.

”I think sometimes people forget that he’s a young kid. You’re 16, 17 years old and thrust into a man’s world,” he said. ”It’s sometimes tough and I don’t think people look at it like that. It’s a natural thing – he’s getting older, he’s bonding more with some of those guys. I know that Davis Cup and Olympics are things that have always been important to him. He told me that in the first meeting where I met him.

”I think the dad gets a bad rap. I think he’s done a great job – it’s not easy, the sport of tennis. You put everything into it and I think everybody’s maturing and learning more. I think if people got to know the dad they would be surprised to know that he’s a good guy, a good person.”

Australian great John Newcombe believes Bernard Tomic is poised to rocket into the top 50 after embracing the country’s Davis Cup structure led by Pat Rafter and Tony Roche.