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Article snippet: WIMBLEDON, England — Mischa Zverev was confused. Something was wrong with his opponent, Bernard Tomic. He just could not be sure of what. “It was quite awkward because he beat me quite easily a few days ago so I was expecting a tough match,” Zverev said. Having lost to Tomic in straight sets just last week, a puzzled Zverev advanced to the second round of Wimbledon on Tuesday in their rematch, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4, in a 1-hour-24-minute battle of players with different styles, headed in opposite directions and playing with very different intentions. Zverev, a 29-year-old German who was born in Moscow, has climbed to No. 30 from the depths of the ATP rankings (No. 1,067 as recently as March 2015) with an audacious southpaw serve-and-volley commitment in the pound-your-groundstrokes world of contemporary tennis. Tomic, 24, is a 6-foot-5 inch Australian, whose family left his native Germany when he was 3. He is known for variety and touch, but also for a tempestuous relationship with John Tomic, one of the more notorious firebrand coaching fathers, and for belying the hearty character of his adopted country’s famous champions. Like his father, Tomic has not always been well-behaved off the court — he has had several minor brushes with the law — and too often has not given his best effort on it. “Many times in my career,” he admitted after adding the hallowed Wimbledon lawns to that unfortunate tendency. In a match of short points because of Zverev’s attacking style, the fi... Link to the full article to read more