{"id":2494,"date":"2014-06-04T09:57:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T02:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2014-06-04T09:57:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T02:57:41","slug":"ernests-gulbis-beats-tomas-berdych-french-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/tennis\/ernests-gulbis-beats-tomas-berdych-french-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernests Gulbis beats Tomas Berdych &#8211; French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris &#8211; If tennis weren&#8217;t finally going so well for Ernests Gulbis, he could probably make a living as a comedian. Or a philosopher. Or maybe even a basketball player.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t really matter at this point because tennis is his job. And his next task is Novak Djokovic in the French Open semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>The 18th-seeded Gulbis reached his first major semifinal in his 27th major tournament, beating sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 Tuesday at Roland Garros. The victory came two days after Gulbis defeated Roger Federer, the 2009 French Open champion and owner of a record 17 Grand Slam titles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;I don&#8217;t understand it yet,&#8221; Gulbis said, reflecting on his last 10 days in Paris. &#8221;Even now, I don&#8217;t want to be too happy. I don&#8217;t want to get too much stuff in my head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s plenty in there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com\/pro-game\/2014\/06\/gulbis-advances-to-french-open-semifinals\/51655\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport &#8211; Sport News Tennis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris &#8211; If tennis weren&#8217;t finally going so well for Ernests Gulbis, he could probably make a living as a comedian. Or a philosopher. Or maybe even a basketball player. It doesn&#8217;t really matter at this point because tennis is his job. And his next task is Novak Djokovic in the French Open semifinals. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[482,251,249,476,481,30,473,261,114,120,80,188,337,480],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-berdych","tag-ernests-gulbis","tag-french-open","tag-french-open-semifinals","tag-gulbis","tag-news","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-roland-garros","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-tennis-news","tag-tomas-berdych"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}