Who would have expected that. Ernests Gulbis win the Los Angeles title by defeating Mardy Fish in the final. Ernests won 5-7 6-4 6-4.
Before the tournament began Ernests had been on a big losing streak and at this tournament he decided to bring back his part-time coach Guillermo Canas and now look at the results!
Congrats Ernests! Hopefully you can finally live up to your potential!
It seems like Xavier Malisse had a very interesting match against Ernests Gulbis this week! Here is what he got up to!
Guillermo Canas is back coaching Ernests Gulbis. Canas was working with Gulbis at Wimbledon and has not started to help him train again.
Canas was known for being one of the fitest players on tour and hopefully he can instill such a work ethic into Gulbis. Gulbis of late has been one of the players on tour I expected a lot more from, but he has never lived up to expectations.
Gulbis just stopped a five-match losing streak with a 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 win over Xavier Malisse at this weeks Farmers’ Classic in Los Angeles.
Ernests Gulbis was a player everyone was talking about at this years French Open. The young latvian was an outsider to do really well, but in a first day shock he has been elimintated. Gulbis was 2 sets to love down and retired injured. Ernests hurt his right leg in the match against Julien Benneteau of France. Cheer up Ernests there is always next year and Im sure you will have a lot more chances to compete at the Roland Garros.
Name: Ernests Gulbis
Country: Latvia
Birthdate: 30-Aug-88
Birthplace: Riga, Latvia
Residence: Jurmala, Latvia
Plays: Right Handed
Highest Singles Ranking: 46 (8-Oct-07)
Highest Doubles Ranking: 160 (25-Jun-07)
Scouting: Gulbis is one of the players on the rise in a fast way. I saw Earnests play juniors a few years ago and he is a big fella with an even bigger serve. His main weapon has to be his serve but the remainder of his game is also improving, this is the key reason why his ranking is also on the continuous rise. I predict Ernests to be in the top 20 by the end of the Australian Open next year.
As I mentioned Ernests has a very big serve and he likes to follow it into the net as much as possible. Currently, you need to stay on top of your returns and really trying to get some penetration on his second serves. Ernests also has quite a big forehand that he likes to really go after and hit, so you would need to really focus on his backhand side and just play consistent from the back of the court and you should have a good chance. All this is easy to say when you have a 200km serve coming down at you consistently, but in this case it is really not about the pace, but more about the height he gets on his serves. Because Ernests come down from a fair height when the ball bounces down the other end you will always seem to be hitting returns from over your head.
