Ernests Gulbis crushes Bernard Tomic 6-2 6-0 in the qualifications in Delray Beach on Sunday after playing a fantastic match to square off with Reilly Opelka in the 1st round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Ernests in this set was in much better shape than Bernard and without too much struggle he won 6-2 after breaking Tomic in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Gulbis missed the opportunity to break Tomic in the 1st game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
2nd set.
Tomic didn’t manage to offer a meaningful resistance and Gulbis won the set 6-0.
Gulbis won 0 consecutive points in this set from 15-0 1-0 to .
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Latvian scored 56 points vs. the Australian’s 24 points.
Ernests served exceptionally well to win 94% of the points (16/17) behind his first serve, and he won 67% points (12/18) on his second serve. The Latvian won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points because he converted only 45% (5/11). On the other side, Tomic wasn’t able to conquer any break point. That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Gulbis and Tomic is 1-2 for Bernard.
Next Match H2H: Ernests Gulbis vs. Reilly Opelka – stats
Gulbis will fight against Opelka in the 1st round.
This will be the 2nd time that Ernests Gulbis and Reilly Opelka square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Opelka (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Opelka won 6-3 7-67 in the semifinal in Bordeaux Challenger back in 2018.
Tennis Scores in Delray Beach
- Noah RubinRubin – Denis IstominIstomin (6-4 3-6 7-66) – See score progression
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Mitchell KruegerKrueger (4-6 6-2 7-65) – See score progression
- Emilio GomezGomez – Stefan KozlovKozlov (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Ernests GulbisGulbis – Bernard TomicTomic (6-2 6-0) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Andreas SeppiSeppi – Milos RaonicRaonic (0-2) – See H2H details
- Ernests GulbisGulbis – Reilly OpelkaOpelka (0-1) – See H2H details
- Radu AlbotAlbot – Jack SockSock (0-1) – See H2H details
- Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen – Steve JohnsonJohnson (0-0) – See H2H details
- Cedrik-Marcel StebeStebe – Bernard TomicTomic (0-1) – See H2H details
- Kyle EdmundEdmund – Ugo HumbertHumbert (1-0) – See H2H details
- Nick KyrgiosKyrgios – Tommy PaulPaul (0-0) – See H2H details
- Noah RubinRubin – Jason JungJung (1-0) – See H2H details
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Ryan HarrisonHarrison (0-0) – See H2H details
- Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz – Cameron NorrieNorrie (2-1) – See H2H details
- Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic – Jordan ThompsonThompson (2-0) – See H2H details