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Dominika Cibulková (born May 6, 1989 in Piešťany, Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia[2]) is a Slovak professional tennis player. She is also a former World Junior No. 3, achieving that ranking in May 2005. Her career-high ranking of World No. 12 was achieved on July 6, 2009. As of August 3, 2009, she is ranked World No. 16.
[edit] CareerCibulková began playing tennis between the ages of seven and nine[3] and grew up in Bratislava, Slovakia. She can speak both Slovak and English. She lists clay and hard as her favourite surfaces, and has thus far proved to be most proficient on a hard surface.[4] She has named Kim Clijsters as the player she admires most. She became a professional tennis player in 2005, after having played one ITF event in Prague at the end of 2004. [edit] 2005-2006Cibulková competed predominantly on the ITF circuit at this time, and managed to win two tournaments: the Amarante, Portugal event in 2005, and the Bratislava event in 2006, where she was cheered on by the home crowd. [edit] 2007At the 2007 French Open she qualified and made her Grand Slam main draw debut, reaching the third round. In the second round she upset the No. 32 seed Martina Müller 6–3, 6–2 after beating Tiantian Sun 6–4, 6–4. She eventually lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova. She has also reached the third round in Amelia Island, beating Anabel Medina Garrigues but losing to her countrywoman Daniela Hantuchová and the quarterfinals of the ECM Prague Open, beating Gisela Dulko before falling to Victoria Azarenka.[5] Cibulková's best finish of the year came in September, when she exited at the semi-final stage at the Guangzhou International Women's Open in China. She lost to eventual champion Virginie Razzano 3–6, 6–1, 6–1. [edit] 2008Cibulková's first tournament of the year was the Tier III Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts in Gold Coast, Australia, where she lost in the quarterfinals to Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 6–1, 3–6, 6–3. The following week, Cibulková won three qualifying matches to reach the main draw of the Tier II Medibank International in Sydney, where she lost in the first round to Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 3–6, 6–1, 7–6(6). At the Australian Open, Cibulková lost in the first round to Flavia Pennetta of Italy 6–4, 5–7, 6–4. Playing for Slovakia in the first round of Fed Cup against the Czech Republic in Brno, Cibulková split her two singles matches as her country lost the tie 3–2. In Paris at the Tier II Open Gaz de France, Cibulková lost in the second round to World No. 9 Marion Bartoli 7–5, 6–1. The following week at the Tier II Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp, Cibulková again lost in the second round, this time to Li Na 6–4, 6–3. At the Qatar Total Open, Cibulková reached her first ever Tier I quarterfinal, defeating former World No. 1 Venus Williams in the third round 6–3, 6–3 before losing to sixteenth-seeded Agnieszka Radwańska in the quarterfinals 6–4, 6–7(1), 6–4. At the Tier I Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California, Cibulková lost in the third round to World No. 3 Svetlana Kuznetsova 6–1, 4–6, 6–3. The following fortnight at the Tier I Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, Cibulková lost in the third round to World No. 11 Elena Dementieva 6–0, 6–7(1), 6–4. In April, Cibulková reached the final of a WTA Tour event for the first time. At the Tier II clay court Bausch & Lomb Championships in Amelia Island, Florida, Cibulková lost in the final to the reigning Australian Open champion Maria Sharapova.  At the Tier I clay court Qatar Telecom German Open in Berlin, Cibulková lost in the first round to fifteenth-seeded Alyona Bondarenko 6–4, 1–6, 7–6(9). Cibulková was seeded 30th in singles at Wimbledon but lost in the first round to unseeded wildcard Zheng Jie of China 6–4, 6–3. In doubles, Cibulková partnered with Alisa Kleybanova of Russia and lost in the first round to Sorana Cîrstea and Monica Niculescu of Romania 6–1, retired. At the Tier I Rogers Cup in Montreal, Cibulková defeated fifth-seeded Dementieva in the second round and Nadia Petrova in the third round. In the quarterfinals, Cibulková defeated second-seeded Jelena Janković 7–5, 6–2 and delayed her replacement of Ana Ivanović as World No. 1. Cibulková then defeated tenth-seeded Bartoli in the semifinals 4–6, 6–4, 6–3 but lost to seventh-seeded Dinara Safina in the final. [edit] 2009At the Australian Open, Cibulková advanced to the fourth round before losing to Elena Dementieva. At the French Open, Cibulková was seeded 20th. She defeated Alona Bondarenko in the first round and dominated Kirsten Flipkens in the second round 6–1, 6–0. She then defeated Gisela Dulko to advance to the fourth round where she defeated Ágnes Szávay to reach her first Grand Slam Quarterfinal. In the quarterfinals, she defeated Maria Sharapova in straight sets 6–0, 6–2. Cibulková was a match point away from beating Sharapova 6–0, 6–0. She lost 6–3, 6–3 to Dinara Safina in her first Grand Slam semifinal. At the Wimbledon Championships, Cibulková was seeded 14th. She beat Julie Coin, in three sets, in the first round. She then beat Urszula Radwańska in the second round but eventually lost 7–5 4–6 6–4 to Elena Vesnina in the third round. She then competed at the 2009 Swedish Open were she reached the Quarterfinals before losing to Gisela Dulko 5–7, 6–3, 7–6(6). She then recorded four straight loses in the first rounds of the 2009 Bank of the West Classic and the 2009 Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open, and the second rounds of the 2009 LA Women's Tennis Championships and the 2009 Rogers Cup after receiving a bye in the first round of the latter two tournamnets. She withdrew from both the 2009 Pilot Pen Tennis and the 2009 US Open due to a rib injury. She is now set to compete in the 2009 Kremilin Cup her first tournament since the 2009 Rogers Cup as the 7th seed. [edit] Personal lifeCibulková has dated French tennis player Gaël Monfils and Austrian player Jürgen Melzer and is now rumored to be dating fellow Slovakian player Filip Polášek.[6] [edit] Fed CupShe has played in the Fed Cup for the Slovak Republic four years in a row from 2005 to 2008, holding a 5–9 win-loss record in both singles and doubles matches.[7]
[edit] Singles performance timelineTo help interpret the performance table, the legend below explains what each abbreviation and color coded box represents in the performance timeline.
To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament when the player's participation in the tournament has concluded.
1 Cibulková won three qualifying matches to reach the main draw. 2 Cibulková won two qualifying matches to reach the main draw. [edit] References
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