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Ernests Gulbis ((:ˈærnests ˈɡulbis), born 30 August 1988, and nicknamed "The Gull" or "Ernie"〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=AllSportsPeople.com )〕) is a Latvian professional tennis player. In 2008, Gulbis won his first ATP Tour doubles title at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, teaming with Rainer Schüttler, and in 2010 won his first ATP Tour singles title in the Delray Beach, defeating Ivo Karlović in the final. In total, Gulbis has 6 ATP titles to his name. His best performance at a Grand Slam is reaching the semifinals of the 2014 French Open. He had previously reached the quarterfinals of the 2008 French Open. Gulbis' career-high singles ranking is World No. 10, making him the only Latvian tennis player ever to be ranked inside the top 10 in ATP Singles Ranking. He achieved this in June 2014. Gulbis' professional training in tennis began at the age of 12, when he was enrolled at the Niki Pilić Tennis Academy in Germany. Beginning after Wimbledon 2011, Gulbis is coached by Austrian Gunter Bresnik. Previously, he was coached by Guillermo Cañas, and before that by Hernán Gumy (who before that was Marat Safin's coach), but their partnership ended due to Gumy's schedule; during that time, Darren Cahill served as Gulbis' consultant for several tournaments. Before Gumy, Ernests was coached by Karl Heinz Wetter and subsequently Nikola Pilić, the former professional Croatian tennis player and Croatian and German Davis Cup captain. ==Personal life== Gulbis comes from a very wealthy family. His book-collecting parents named him after Ernest Hemingway. His father, Ainārs, is an investment businessman, while his mother, Milēna Gulbe-Kavace, is a theater actress. His maternal grandfather, Uldis Pūcītis, was a popular actor and film director. The second of five children, Gulbis has three sisters and one brother, who is training in Florida to become a professional golfer. His younger half-sister Laura Gulbe is also a tennis player.〔(Pepperdine Sports )〕 Gulbis comes from a sporting family in general, and his paternal grandfather, Alvils Gulbis, was one of the starting five players on ASK Rīga, the Soviet Union basketball team that won the European Championships.〔("An Interview with Ernests Gulbis: Round 4 US Open" 2007 )〕 He first started playing tennis with his grandmother and considers basketball, association football and ice hockey to be his favorite sports. Gulbis is known as one of the funnier personalities on the tour. When Gulbis stunned World No. 1 Roger Federer at the 2010 Italian Open after throwing away six match points, he told reporters that, "I shit my pants a little bit there . . . excuse my language," and has also bragged about his racquet-throwing "skills" in an on-court interview. On a telecast during the 2010 Western and Southern Financial Group Masters from Cincinnati, broadcasters Brad Gilbert, Patrick McEnroe and Chris Fowler all compared Gulbis to former world no. 1 Marat Safin, in terms of both playing style and attitude on and off court. Also like Safin, Gulbis often comments about his own lack of discipline and/or interest in practising, but is very forthcoming about his aspirations of entering the top 10, 5, or even No. 1 in the ATP rankings. Gulbis is also not a stranger to controversy. In 2009, Gulbis was arrested in Sweden for allegedly soliciting prostitutes. He called it a misunderstanding. After paying a small fine, he was released in time to play in the Stockholm Open.〔 As well, speaking of a desire for more explosive rivalries in tennis (e.g. Connors-McEnroe), in 2013 he opined Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Andy Murray as being "boring" in interviews.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gulbis: Big Four are Boring Interviews )〕 The next year at the French Open, when Gulbis was asked if he would encourage his sisters to pursue professional tennis, he said he believed that women should "focus on family and kids." The sincerity of his comments was questioned by Maria Sharapova, however.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Women should Focus on Family and Kids Instead of Playing Tennis Says Ernests Gulbis )〕 Gulbis speaks Latvian, English, Russian, some French and German. He is keen on reading.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ernests Gulbis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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