Eight months of jail for Bernard Tomic's father

John Tomic was sentenced for the assault outside a Madrid hotel in May, in which he broke Thomas Drouet's nose and knocked him out, the court said in a written judgement.

"I sentence the accused Ivica Tomic as the author of a crime of bodily harm... to a penalty of eight months' prison," wrote judge Jacobo Vigil Levi in a ruling, referring to the Bosnian-born defendant, 49, by his official name.

A court source told AFP that Tomic could appeal to two higher courts before the sentence is made definitive.