Ernests Gulbis: ‘Nadal and Federer out? Good thing for us! Olympics are like tennis tourism’

Ernests Gulbis is never banal, and his press conference after his match against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was pretty interesting.

Gulbis was asked about the retirements of many players including Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal from the tournament. To which, he replied, “Of course, it’s a very bad when you lose such players, especially Monfils, Tsonga for the French crowd, and Federer and Nadal. You’re right, not much could be worse. But I don’t really know how to comment on being lucky or unlucky. It’s just what it is, you know. We have more opportunity, you know. We have more opportunity.” Gulbis, who’d been hampered by shoulder and wrist injury for the past one year talked about his physical condition with regard to his game and said, “You can always think about, okay, I had bad luck that I lost, I had bad luck – accident is bad luck. My injuries were not accident. I didn’t twist my ankle. It was …

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