Famous Slovak tennis player Dominika Cibulkova is the winner of the 2016 Singapore Final, a finalist of the Australia Open Grand Slam.
Dominica was born on May 6, 1989 in Bratislava. The girl started playing tennis at the age of seven. Tsibulkova could not achieve a good game due to the peculiarities of addition.
Junior
The girl was able to improve the feed force with age. She has developed an amazing technique: a combination of power and speed. Despite her small stature, Dominica successfully fought against stronger rivals.
At the age of nine, Tsibulkova took part in her first competitions. Among juniors, the girl demonstrated such a confident game that she participated in senior tournaments at the age of thirteen.
The fifteen-year-old athlete was entrusted with the Junior Grand Slam in the States. After her debut, the tennis player managed to get to several finals at ITF tournaments. True, she could not win any titles then. In subsequent competitions, Tsibulkova did not manage to break through the quarter finals.
The girl entered adult tennis at seventeen. Further career In 2004, Dominic made his debut as an adult athlete. The victory was won in the first match.
The Slovakian managed to reach the first final in the next season. But at the ITF tournament in Rabat, Tsibulkova lost to her compatriot in two sets. By mid-2005, Tsibulkova was ranked 555 in the world ranking.
By the end of the summer, she won a victory at Amaranti, receiving her first title in her career. The athlete from Slovakia passed the qualifying rounds of the next season of the WTA version confidently.
Success and failure
In Saint-Georges, reaching the final, she lost again. This time Italian Alberta Brianti. The girl lost in Rimini and Charlottesville.
But the middle of autumn brought the tennis player a victory in the Bratislava tournament. In subsequent seasons, success alternated with defeat.
Only by 2007, the athlete managed to get into the Grand Slam qualification for the first time in her career. There Tsibulkova faced a defeat in the first round from the Russian Alla Kudryavtseva.
In 2008, the tennis player submitted to the Amelia Island and Montreal finals of the WTA tournaments. However, she lost both. As a result, Dominica was able to climb only to the second step of the podium. But the end of the season, Tsibulkova met in the top twenty of the world rankings.
The French Roland Garros surprised many observers. The tennis player from Slovakia reached the semifinals, showed her best result. In 2010, the girl could not boast of victories, having gone down four lines.
But she won her first WTA title in the next season. Estonian Kaya Kaneli Dominika defeated in the final of the Moscow tournament. During the same year, the girl reached the final of the competition in Linz, but lost to Petra Kvitova.
The tennis player reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon. The end of the season put her on the eighteenth line of the rating. Tsibulkova gained three more titles in three seasons, winning in Carlsbad in 2012, winning in 2013 at Stanford and becoming a medalist in Acapulco in 2014.
Tournaments
By the beginning of 2014, at the final of the Australian Grand Slam, Dominica managed to reach the final. 2016 was her career peak. The middle of spring was marked by a victory in the Katowice tournament, and a couple of months later, the girl won in Eastbourne. But the main achievements were waiting for the Slovak in the second part of the competition.
After the Wimbledon quarterfinals, she won in Linz. The result was the opportunity to travel to Singapore for the Final Tournament. Dominica had almost no chances in the last fight, but the semi-final was secured by her victory over Simona Halep from Romania.
In the final, the Slovak defeated German Angelica Kerber, who defeated her in the first match of the group stage. This was Tsibulkova's first and last achievement at the Final Tournament.
The next two seasons passed unsuccessfully for her. The success of 2016 did not help: Dominica settled on the twenty-first line.
Tsibulkova defended the colors of the national team since 2005 at the Confederation Cup. She took part in the Beijing and London Olympiads. Only in China, the tennis player managed to complete two laps. In the third match, she lost to Elena Jankovic from Serbia.
Matters of the heart
The energetic and attractive girl has dated many athletes. However, love did not find in its usual environment. Her husband's name is Michal Navara.
In the fall of 2016, she married her chosen one. The tennis player left four days before the wedding. At the same time, the question of postponing the date of the wedding was serious, if the Slovak managed to stay at Wimbledon a little longer.
Acquaintance with the future spouse took place at a disco. The young people met for six years before deciding on a serious step.
The athlete took a double surname: Dominika Tsibulkova Navara. For the court, she decided to leave only the girl's. Dominica joked that she did not want to be constantly confused with Carla Suarez Navarro, the famous tennis player from Spain.
In her free time from sports, Tsibulkova is busy with work: she participates in various advertising campaigns, is removed for photo shoots. In 2014, the athlete demonstrated her creativity by releasing a line of fashionable clothes under the Domi brand.
Her first collectibles depict the founder herself and the slogan "Come on" in Slovak, Rome. The young family has not yet been replenished.
The birth of a child is still being postponed, as Dominica decided to concentrate on her sports career.
