PARIS -- Australian tennis player Bernard Tomic squeezed his upper left arm with his right hand, looked straight ahead and spoke in a level tone about his father, who is also his coach -- and was banned from attending the French Open because of a pending assault case. "Hes here right now in Paris, so, you know, hes still working with me, hes still my dad, hes still my coach," the 20-year-old Tomic said Tuesday. "And, you know, I love him a lot." That was part of a 40-second opening statement Tomic delivered at his news conference after retiring from his first-round match at Roland Garros in the third set because of a torn right hamstring. Tomics father, John, is due in a Spanish court in October, accused of head-butting Bernards hitting partner in Madrid this month. The ATP and International Tennis Federation both barred John Tomic from receiving credentials for tournaments. The French tennis federation announced Monday it had told the ATP, Bernard Tomic and his agent that the father would not be allowed onto the grounds of the clay-court Grand Slam tournament, even as a paying spectator. "Nothings changed between my dad and I," Bernard said. "Its still the same." After the 61st-ranked Tomic stopped while trailing 7-5, 7-6 (
, 2-1 against Victor Hanescu of Romania, a reporter asked what it was like to not have a coach courtside Tuesday. "Its a little bit different, but, you know, my dads still my coach, and hell always be, because, you know, I grew up with him and he knows me better than everyone else," Tomic said, while also noting he is considering adding another person to help work with them. Tomic began playing tennis at age 7. In 2011, at only 18, he became the youngest quarterfinalist at Wimbledon since Boris Becker in the 1980s. Viewed as Australias most promising player, hes taken a step back, though, making only one fourth-round appearance in the seven Grand Slam tournaments since. And his nascent career has been marked by off-court issues. In November, he was fined and put on a 12-month good-behaviour bond after twice being stopped by Australian police for driving offences near his Gold Coast home. "I showed that I can play, but this is the problem at a young age -- youre up and down," he said. "So Ive got to just keep working hard, keep trying, because once I get there and get to where I want to be, then theres no stopping me." A moderator began Tomics post-match news conference by saying: "Before we start, Bernard has a few things to say, and we wont be taking questions after his comments, other than on the match, OK?" Tomic then began: "Hello, guys. I hope youre well. You know, Id like to say some things before you guys ask me about them -- obviously involving my father." He added: "Involving the incidents that happened, I dont want to talk about it a lot -- at all, if I should say. And its a very difficult thing for me, you know, to put my words into that. If you can respect all I have to say about this, you know, Im happy to talk about the match." John Tomic had not been seen at the Roland Garros complex Tuesday, French federation spokesman Christophe Proust said. "Weve taken maximum precautions not to let him in," Proust said, adding that the younger Tomic "was playing on Court No. 6, which is a small court, so its easy to see whos in the stands." The hitting partner that John Tomic is accused of injuring, Thomas Drouet, is now working with French player Marion Bartoli, who won in the first round at the French Open on Tuesday. "During training and during the match, he helped me a lot," Bartoli said. After only three games against Hanescu, Bernard Tomic called for a trainer to work on his right leg. After getting his hamstring massaged, Tomic continued to play but was limping. "Its very unlucky. I prepared very good to come play here, and the second point, I felt my leg sort of tear and didnt know what it was. It was very strange. I never felt this pain before," Tomic said. When he headed to the locker room during a rain delay, a doctor told him the muscle was torn. "Lucky its not huge. Its not eight weeks, its not six weeks; probably just a week or two. So Im going to try as much as I can to recover" in time for Wimbledon, Tomic said. Clearly, there is a lot on this college-age kids mind at the moment. By the end of his potentially awkward 10-minute session with reporters -- a son discussing his in-trouble father -- Tomic was making himself smile. When he was asked whether he felt a bit lost without support Tuesday, he replied with a chuckle: "No, I just didnt feel my leg at all. Thats all I didnt feel. So if I hadnt done what I did to my leg, maybe I would have thought about that. But considering that I couldnt feel my leg, thats all I was thinking about."
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Hats rained down onto the Bell Centre ice after Eller, whose previous high was two points in a game, took a feed from Andrei Kostitsyn and scored into an open side for Montreals third goal in a 50-second span early in the third period. Then at the 11-minute mark, Eller was grabbed from behind by Ron Hainsey on a break to the net and was awarded a penalty shot. Eller skated to the crease, did a spin-o-rama move and slid a backhander past Chris Mason before tumbling over the goalie for his fourth of the night. Teammate Michael Cammalleri called it a "can-fidence" move, which he explained took "more than confidence." Eller just said that after seeing the Canadiens stopped so many times this season during shoot-outs, he would try "something different. "Things were rolling for us. Tonight, we played to win instead of playing afraid to lose." Josh Gorges, Tomas Kaberle and Cammalleri also scored for the Canadiens (15-18-7), who got their second win in eight games and the first on home ice for new coach Randy Cunneyworth. Tim Stapleton, Blake Wheeler and Andrew Ladd scored for Winnipeg (19-15-5), which had a three-game winning streak stopped. Jets starter Ondrej Pavelec was pulled at 6:44 of the third after surrendering six goals on 24 shots. The Jets were coming off a hot December in which they won 10-of-14 games including 9-2-1 at home. But their road record is now 5-9-4. Coach Claude Noel, whose team plays in Toronto on Thursday night before stops in Buffalo and Boston, was not impressed. "We didnt play with the same heart, determination, passion, fire that we played with the whole month before," he said. "Where was out checking game? It wasnt there. "I dont think it had anything to do with (playing on the road). I dont think thats the issue." With a goal and an assist, Wheeler now has four goals and five helpers during a six-game points streak and has tied Evander Kane for the team scoring lead with 30. It was big night for Cunneyworth, who has been under fire as the first Canadiens coach not able to speak French in four decades, plus a losing streak, but he wasnt taking any of the spotlight away from Eller or his team after his firrst home win.dddddddddddd He laughed as he began his post-game meeting media conference in French with: "Je suis tres content pour Lars (Im very happy for Lars). "He was the show tonight. These days, not many players in the league score four goals." Eller was the first Canadien to get four in a game since Jan Bulis in 2006 and the first to do it on home ice since Brian Bellows in 1993. The Jets got the start they wanted when Montreal defenceman Raphael Diaz lost an edge and Kane took the puck to the net. Stapleton followed up on the rush to tap in the rebound at 3:41. Gorges, in his first game since signing a US$23.4-million, six-year contract extension, put a high wrist shot through traffic past Pavalec to tie at 13:24. Only 43 seconds later, Kyle Wellwood was stripped of the puck at the blue-line and Eller skated in to score. Kaberle broke a 73-game goal drought when he took a feed from Travis Moen and slapped in his first as a member of the Canadiens 5:32 into the second. Wheeler got one back on a power play at 17:51 when he tipped in Zach Bogosians point shot from the slot. The Jets defence was in disarray as Eller banged in a Moen pass from the edge of the crease 2:41 into the third. Cammalleri fired a puck into a crowd in front and saw it go in at 3:03 before Eller got his third of the game at 3:31 Eller joined Montreal in one of the teams least popular trades of recent years when the Canadiens sent playoff hero goaltender Jaroslav Halak two seasons ago to the St. Louis Blues, who had drafted him 13th overall in 2007. The six-foot-two 200-pounder has proven to be a strong defensive player, but the offensive side has been slow in coming. His four goals gave him seven for the season, matching his total in 77 games last season. "Im sure he feels good about those goals, he worked hard for them," said Cunneyworth. "That line (with Moen and Kostitsyn) clicked. They were looking for each other and finding each other. "We knew and Lars knew that hes a good player. If hes consistent in his work habits Im sure hell score his share of goals." Cunneyworth dressed seven defencemen and only 11 forwards, using workhorse right winger Erik Cole on two lines. The veteran led the team with 27:04 of ice time and had two assists. Rookie Louis Leblanc was returned to AHL Hamilton after the game. The Canadiens expect to have captain Brian Gionta back from an injury for their next game Saturday against Tampa Bay. Teams named the Winnipeg Jets have not won in Montreal since March 14, 1985, and have lost 14 in a row. Notes: Gorges goal was Montreals 100th of the season. They are the 14th of the 15 Eastern Conference teams to reach 100. ... Randy Jones returned to the Winnipeg lineup from an upper-body problem to play for only the third time in 26 games. He was the only Jet who was not a minus for the game, going plus-1. ... Dustin Byfuglien and Bryan Little remain sidelined. ... Montreal scratched Yannick Weber.
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