Court violation ... John Tomic should be banned from tennis for life. Source: Julian Smith / AAP
If the latest allegations against John Tomic are proved, he must be thrown out of tennis forever.
As the grisly details of Tomic's alleged assault on Thomas Drouet emerge, there is renewed focus on a complex man with parasitic and smothering tendencies.
Tomic senior won a virtual lottery 20 years ago when his son Bernard was born in Germany.
That windfall ballooned to multi-million dimensions as Bernard climbed to international tennis prominence.
Hefty sponsorship deals, Tennis Australia's monetary largesse and prizemoney - all earned by his son - have seen John Tomic, a former taxi driver, taken for the ride of his life.
Yet, at almost every turn, he has marked himself as a bully and an ingrate.
He luckily escaped penalty after an incident in Adelaide several years ago when he allegedly made threats against fellow junior coaches.
He is notorious for monstering journalists, mostly unsuccessfully, but he is known to tell people of desires "to crush".
A towering man, Tomic glories in standing over people - literally and metaphorically - knowing all the while he has the ultimate shield to cower behind: Bernie, Australian tennis’s great white hope.
But since he has this time allegedly crossed the line by knocking poor Drouet senseless on a Madrid street, Tomic's time as a tennis bottom feeder is over.
He should be shown the door with a unified global ban from all events, forever.
The Women's Tennis Association initiated a similar move against Australian Open and French Open winner Mary Pierce's father Jim, a nasty thug with a criminal history.
Pierce's mugshot was plastered at every entrance to tournaments where Mary played and he was barred entry.
Damir Dokic, another infamous graduate from the Tennis Parents School For The Warped, was similarly banned as he did almost everything in his powers to wreck daughter Jelena's career.
Likewise, erratic Stefano Capriati was firmly and repeatedly reminded of his obligations as his world No 1 daughter Jennifer attempted to maintain her sanity as he menaced officials and players.
John Tomic is cut from the same odious cloth.
He was cunning enough to realise how valuable his son was to Tennis Australia - and played himself into every money-making, decision-making equation.
For all that exposure to smarter people, Tomic senior has learnt nothing in his increasingly ineffectual jaunts around the world on his son's coat-tails.
He is unspeakably rude, charmless and deluded.
If any of the charges he is likely to face in a Madrid court today are eventually found to be true, he is likely to spend time in jail.
In many ways whatever the court decides – guilt or innocence – is irrelevant.
Tomic senior’s oafish behaviour is so out of touch – and dangerous – that he must not be allowed back into tennis.
Bernard will be much better off and the sport will have lost nothing apart from an overblown egomaniac with a vile temper.
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