My dream is to win Roland Garros and be a reliable top 50 player

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Although his desire was to lift the title at the Madrid Challenger, the good Vilius Gaubas (Šiauliai, Lithuania, 2004) had to settle for leaving the Spanish capital having played the best match of the tournament. His quarterfinal duel against Marin Cilic (6-7, 6-4, 7-6) lasted over three hours on the clock, but the scale tipped in favor of the Croatian. That ended his streak of seven consecutive victories, after winning the Challenger de Menorca the previous week and breaking into the top150 of the individual ranking for the first time.

At 20 years old, he doesn't seem to be weighed down by being the best tennis player in his country for some time now, perhaps because he knows that the best is yet to come. Hand in hand with Guillermo García López, with whom he has been working since late 2022, he has been progressing step by step until reaching the threshold of the final leap, which grants direct entry to the Grand Slams. Before it happens -and it will happen soon-, Punto de Break sat down with the Lithuanian to learn about his origins, his relationship with Spain, and his professional dreams.

Are you confident speaking Spanish?

I believe I can speak Spanish well, but sometimes it scares me a bit (laughs). I do understand everything, though.

I heard you speaking Spanish in Menorca, during the trophy ceremony.

That was because I made a deal with a guy who proposed it to me in the quarterfinals in case of winning the tournament. I agreed, never thinking it could actually happen (laughs). In the end, I had no choice but to do it.

Do you find the language difficult?

Hmm… I'd say it's a very easy language to understand compared to others, for example, Lithuanian, where the accent limits you significantly in communicating with other languages. In that sense, Spanish is not that complicated.

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