Gulbis Ernest: life, career, photo

Gulbis Ernest is a famous Latvian tennis player, winner of ATP tournaments in singles and doubles, and also a semi-finalist of the French Open Championship in 2014. Favorite cover - hard, and the highest place in the rating of the ATP - the tenth.

early years

Gulbis Ernest was born and raised in a sports family. His grandfather and father played basketball, both sisters professionally are engaged in tennis, and the younger brother - tries himself in golf.

Ernest first appeared on the court in 5 years, and at 16 he began to play in the nature. In 2005, Ernest made his debut in the Latvian team during the qualifying matches in the Davis Cup and held the first matches of the APR tour. By the end of the season Gulbis managed to triumph in two Challengers: in Eckental in singles and in doubles in Aachen.

Debut in the series of the Grand Slam

The beginning of 2007 brought the Latvian two more wins on the Challengers in Besançon and Sarajevo, thanks to which the tennis player climbed to the top 100 rating of the ATP. In 2008, Gulbis Ernest first came to the courts of the Australian Open, but was defeated in the first fight against the Russian Marat Safin.

Gulbis was the real discovery of Roland Garros-2008. On the way to the quarter-finals, he beat one of the favorites of the tournament - American Blake, but two steps before the finals lost to Serb Novak Djokovic. At the Wimbledon tournament of the same year, Ernest also came together in a confrontation with the main contender for the title, Rafael Nadal, who lost in four sets. Taking part in the Olympic Games and the US Open, Ernest Gulbis finished the season at a record 53 place.

At the peak

The next few seasons Gulbis totally unlucky at the Grand Slam tournaments, where he could not win at least two bouts in a row. At the same time, Ernest performed quite successfully in the competitions below and even defeated Croatian Ivo Karlovich in Delray Beach. In addition, the Latvian player scored several important victories over representatives of the top-10 world rankings and at the end of 2010 held a high 24th place for himself.

Ups and downs

Up to 2014, one of the tennis players, who, according to sports experts, "fevered" more than others, was still Gulbis Ernest. Tennis has repeatedly played with him a cruel joke, then raising in the rating, then "throwing" beyond the top hundred. For four seasons the Latvian player won only two tournaments in St. Petersburg and Los Angeles, at the same time he continued the series of unsuccessful appearances in the Grand Slam series.

The season of 2015 also presented several unpleasant surprises to the tennis player, but local successes in the form of victory in the ATP tournament in Marseille and the release of the semi-finals Roland Garros promptly raised Gulbisa in the top ten of the world rating. At the end of the season, Gulbis had two more ATP finals (in Moscow and Kuala Lumpur), and he finished the year in the top 20, once again "failing" on the chord courts of the US Open.

Prospects

Gulbis Ernest is a tennis player whose game attracts the attention of the public. He is extremely unstable and can alternate enchanting victories with a complete fiasco. However, whatever the outcome of the match with the participation of a Latvian player, spectators in the stands can observe a bright attacking style of the game. Now Ernest is on the verge of thirty years and is once again preparing to start the fight in the US Open, on his favorite hard.