BERNARD Tomic’s long awaited comeback to the court at the Sony Open was a record breaker but not in the way he might have hoped.

The Australian crashed to a 6-0, 6-1 defeat at the hands of Jarkko Nieminen in a match that lasted just 28 minutes and 20 seconds — the shortest in ATP history.

Tomic, who has not played since retiring against Rafael Nadal in the first round of the Australian Open in January, won just one point in the first five games of the match and 13 in total.

media_camera Bernard Tomic’s defeat was the shortest match in ATP history.

Afterwards, Tomic was unruffled by the defeat.

``This was the first match back after the operation. It’s all part of the rehabilitation process,’’ he said.

``I’m not disappointed. I just have to keep working to improve my game.’’

The match shaved one minute off the previous record set by Greg Rusedski and Carsten Arriens at the Sydney International in 1996 when the Briton beat his German opponent 6-0, 6-0 in 29 minutes.

Meanwhile, Tomic’s compatriot Lleyton Hewitt came from a set behind to beat Robin Hasse 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 and claim his 600th ATP match win.

He is the 21st player in ATP history to achieve the feat and only Roger Federer (942) and Nadal (675) have won more matches among active players.

Next up for Hewitt is world No 1 Nadal.

media_camera Lleyton Hewitt meanwhile celebrated his 600th ATP victory against Robin Haase

In the women’s tournament, Sam Stosur eased into the third round of the tournament with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands.

The win, which took just one hour and 12 minutes, sets up a meeting with American Coco Vandeweghe.

Originally published as Tomic loses fastest match in history