Gulbis Sets Up Another Clash wth Fish

  • 2011-10-04
  • Jared Grellet
TOKYO, Japan– Ernests Gulbis has endured a tough three set battle in order to move onto to the second round of the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championship. The 23-year-old Latvian has taken just over two and a half hours to get by first round opponent Lukasz Kubot of Poland, finally prevailing 6-3 3-6 7-5, breaking Kubot for just the second time in the match when the Pole was serving to force the match to a tiebreaker. In the third and deciding set Kubot was always on the back foot with Gulbis looking unperturbed on his own serve to produce six aces bef...
 
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