To Have and Have Not: Ernests Gulbis

Moving from the WTA to the ATP and from defense to offense, we respond to a pre-Roland Garros request for a profile on the “little Safin,” Ernests Gulbis. After a hideous 2009 campaign, this longtime underachiever finally began chipping into the vast iceberg of his talent during the spring of 2010, when he scored a possibly career-redefining victory over Federer en route to the Rome semifinals. The scion of an affluent Latvian family, Gulbis was named after American author Ernest Hemingway, who entitled one of his minor novels To Have and Have Not. We find the phrase especially apt to characterize this highly individual player, nearly as famous for quips and quirks as for power and precision. Below are outlined five key traits that Ernests has, in addition to five that he has not...

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