their agreement spawned marketing deals potentially worth millions of dollars but in the space of two years since reaching the fourth round of the 2012 Australian Open,Tomic has slipped from a career-high world ranking of 27 to a current 124 His career has nosedived since withdrawing in the first round of the Australian Open against Rafael Nadal He underwent double hip surgery shortly afterwards and then suffered a record 26-minute defeat on his comeback competition at Miami Last year,his father John was banned from attending the French Open tournament,even as a paying spectator,after he was charged with assaulting his son's hitting partner'Frenchman thomas Drouet in Madrid Drouet was left with a broken nose after a brawl broke out in front of the player's hotel in the Spanish capital Tomic himself has also been in the headlines in recent years for the wrong reasons,including run-ins with police in his sportscar AFP