{"id":4421,"date":"2013-09-23T03:54:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T03:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=4421"},"modified":"2015-09-20T02:03:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:03:30","slug":"gulbis-stages-dramatic-comeback-to-win-st-petersburg-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/gulbis-stages-dramatic-comeback-to-win-st-petersburg-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulbis Stages Dramatic Comeback to Win St. Petersburg Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ernests Gulbis fought back from a set down to overcome Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 3-6, 6-4, 6-0 in the final of the St. Petersburg Open.<\/p>\n<p>Gulbis, ranked 36, was broken three times in the opening set (he broke Garcia-Lopez once) and fell behind 4-1 in the second set before staging a dramatic comeback to win 11 consecutive games to seize the second set, and administer a third set bagel to the stunned Spaniard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main key why I\u2019m not yet a top player is the consistency. Everybody knows I can play well for a tournament or a match and then I go downhill. I just need to bring this consistency to bigger tournaments, especially Grand Slams. Then I believe I am a Top 20 player for sure, and not so far from Top 10,\u201d said Gulbis after the match.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Latvian&#8217;s fourth career title and earned him $78,000.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=1083\"><strong>Discuss this story with fellow tennis fans on the Tennis Frontier message board.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><em>Cover Photo: Kenneth Hong, Creative Commons License.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernests Gulbis fought back from a set down to overcome Spaniard Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 3-6, 6-4, 6-0 in the final of the St. Petersburg Open. Gulbis, ranked 36, was broken three times in the opening set (he broke Garcia-Lopez once) and fell behind 4-1 in the second set before staging a dramatic comeback to win 11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[781,346,384,385,779],"class_list":["post-4421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-atp","tag-ernests-gulbis","tag-guillermo-garcia-lopez","tag-st-petersburg","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}