BERNARD Tomic’s relationship with Tennis Australia is about to get a lot more complicated after his father John confirmed the family is prepared to sue over the ‘Hall of Shame’ email.

After being overlooked for the Davis Cup team, Tomic accepted a wildcard into the ‘Hall of Fame’ tournament in the United States but an email misrepresented the tournament as the ‘Hall of Shame Tennis Championships’.

Although Tennis Australia apologised for the email and rounded the mistake down to a typo, Tomic’s father told Fairfax Media that the matter would be referred to lawyers.

“The Tomic family is very disappointed by TA’s continual shaming and misrepresentation of Bernard,” Tomic senior wrote.

The Tomic’s believe the clerical error is further punishment for Bernard’s outburst after his Wimbledon third round loss, for which he was left out of the Davis Cup team.

Tomic senior concluded: “It seems TA have commenced living up to their threat. How typically childish and arrogant of TA to permit publication of such material and then expect to get away with it. We have no alternative but to refer the matter to our legal people for advice.”

Under the heading Coming Up, the press release stated Bernard Tomic would play his next match in the “Hall of Shame Championships’’ tournament in Newport — an unintentionally provocative reference to Tomic’s match against fellow Australian John Patrick Smith in the “Hall of Fame” tournament.

The press release was reissued 14 minutes later with ‘’Shame’’ changed to ‘’Fame’’.

Tennis Australia — who have been contacted for comment — later tweeted an apology, claiming it was a typo, but the inference was obvious considering their history.

The simmering battle between the two sides came to a head after Tomic went out to Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon.

The 22-year-old claimed the governing body had abandoned his family.

“There has been a lack of support towards me. There has been no respect, I think, towards me,” he said.

“It’s been difficult, you know, been good player the last three, four years coming up, and, you know, people expecting a lot from you. All of a sudden, things started changing after I had that surgery (double hip surgery after the 2014 Australian Open).

“You know, I didn’t get one phone call from Tennis Australia, can we help you, Bernard? Can we do this? Do you need something?”

Tennis Australia was stunned and fired back by banning Tomic from Australia’s upcoming Davis Cup tie against Kazakhstan in Darwin.

And the split seemingly grew at the weekend when Australia’s head of tennis Pat Rafter told News Corp. that he was trying to develop players “Australia could be proud of’’ – an apparent attack on the attitude of Tomic and perhaps also Nick Kyrgios.

In retaliation Kyrgios tweeted: “Another negative comment out of Rafter’s mouth. Does this guy ever stop? #everyoneisaworkinperogress.’’ He later deleted the post.

Coincidentally — or perhaps not — another player who once gave Tennis Australia official heartburn, Mark Philippoussis, will embark on his comeback in the Hall of ... yes, Fame, tournament.

— with Richard Hinds.