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CIBULKOVA WINS WTA FINALS IN SINGAPORE

11/1/2016

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This Week In Tennis
​Vol. 43

Dominika Cibulkova and Andy Murray were the big winners in tennis last week. Cibulkova scored the biggest title of her career when she beat Angelique Kerber in the finals of the WTA year-end event in Singapore. With the win, Cibulkova rises to a career high #5 ranking. Meanwhile, Andy Murray kept his win streak alive (16 matches and counting) with yet another title, this time in Vienna. The world #2 now sports a 69-9 record on the year having hoisted seven trophies.  

As the 2016 tennis season heads towards the finish line, take a look back at the last week of action with #ThisWeekInTennis, recapping the action through news reports, press snippets, player tweets, tennis writing, rankings, and podcasts.
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RUNDOWN
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  • ​Dominika Cibulkova won the WTA Finals in Singapore for the biggest title of her career. Apart from a new career high ranking at #5, Cibulkova finishes the year having won the most WTA singles titles of any player (four). Her seven finals on the year is second only to world #1, Angelique Kerber.
  • Andy Murray won the third consecutive event in which he's entered, this time claiming the title in Vienna, Austria. The Andy Murray #1 ranking watch is officially on as the Brit has a chance of finally claiming the top ranking this week in Paris.
  • Marin Cilic boosted his chances of qualifying for the ATP World Tour Finals by winning last week in Basel. He moves to #9 in the Race to London after beating Kei Nishikori 6-1 7-6. The title was also the first ATP 500 crown of Cilic's career. 
  • Jo-Wilfried Tsonga made the finals in Vienna before losing to Andy Murray. The Frenchman also announced he will become a father in the new year. 
  • Svetlana Kuznetsova had herself a banner two weeks. After winning in Moscow to qualify for the WTA Finals at the last minute, Kuznetsova reached the semifinals of the year-end event, and got a lot of media attention when she gave herself a haircut mid-match against Radwanska.
  • Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina won the doubles title at the WTA Finals in Singapore. The pair also took Olympic gold in Rio. 
  • Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis returned as a doubles team at the WTA Finals, bowing out in the semifinals. While the pair were unable to defend their title from a year ago, Mirza will end 2016 as the #1 ranked doubles player on the WTA Tour. 
  • Nick Kyrgios has agreed to receive treatment from a sports psychologist in order to reduce his suspension from the ATP Tour.
  • Jack Sock and Marcel Granollers  teamed to win the doubles event in Basel. Sock, whose singles results have been on the uptick lately (final in Stockholm, quarters in Shanghai), has been even better in doubles; he's made the final of his last three events, winning two. 
  • Both Serena and Venus Williams have been confirmed for the 2017 edition of the ASB Classic in Auckland to start the year.
  • WTA year-end top 10 is settled: 1) Kerber 2) Williams 3) Radwanska 4) Halep 5) Cibulkova 6) Pliskova 7) Muguruza 8) Keys 9) Kuznetsova 10) Konta

PRESS
Q. You've had to come back from an injury, and tonight Angelique was the favorite. Did you feel that you've always had to prove people wrong?
DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA: Actually, I don't really fight with this. You know, I don't care what people thinks. I learned to not care, because it will not change. It's just my life. I do what I want to do.
Probably, yes, but when I was younger it was something that motivated me to go forward. You know, a lot of people in the club and around me, they were like, Too small to play tennis. They underestimated me. After I started to play big tennis I didn't care what people thinks.
I just had my goals, and I was -- I think I was -- yeah, that was it. (Smiling.)


Q. You're going to go up to No. 5 on Monday in the rankings. What does it mean to you to be Top 5, and do you believe you're a Top 5 player?
DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA: Yeah, I believe it. You know, right now I don't doubt myself anymore. I mean, I don't doubt myself this year at all.
I always had my coach to motivate me, to put the bigger goals for me. I think that was my -- not problem, but something I was dealing with. I never saw myself as such a great player, you know, consistent player, somebody who could be Top 5.
When my coach -- I think it was after Wimbledon, I don't remember. He said, Domi, you had a great half of the season, but you're able to have a great 'nother half of the season. You just have to still stay focused and work hard. You can be Top 5 in the end of the year.
And I really, really believed him for the first time in my life. I believed, Okay, this is something I can do, I want to do. I'm not saying I was coming to this tournament to win it, but when I was so close before the finals, I was convinced that I can beat Angie today.


Q. Everybody is kind of beating each other both in the red group and the white group. What do you think that says about where the tour is right?
SIMONA HALEP: Kuznetsova is on fire. I saw her match last night. She's incredible. Coming from Moscow and she did a great job there; she's doing here a great job. I see her winning actually. I hope she has enough power to do that. Everyone is playing good tennis......

Q. 81 matches. Are you physically and emotional exhausted at the end of the season?
ANGELIQUE KERBER: You know, in my mind I know that it's now over. Of course I had a lot of the matches, a lot of tough matches, and also a lot of great finals and great memories, yeah, what I received this year.
So of course now I'm ready for the vacation.


Q. Question about respect. In that locker room, how do players earn like the locker room's respect? We talk about slams, winning titles, being nice. I don't know. As a player, how does a player earn your respect?
SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA: I mean, for everybody it's different. I see my way very clearly for myself. You know, for every player -- first of all, you got to behave on the court. There is huge respect when you are like fair, fair game. Some players, they don't do that.
One of the best history players for me, they don't have my respect of behaving because they start to know you on the court to do some ugly things, you know, and some things which are not correct. Like doing things on mistakes and stuff like that and just trying to mess up not by tennis; for me you got to win by tennis.
On the court, as they say, everything goes, and they don't judge the champions. Then you just don't talk bad behind somebody, which many players they do like to talk.
Sometimes you can be angry and sometimes you can say things. Okay. And sometimes when you are wrong you got to have balls to go to tell the person, I was wrong and I'm sorry, or whatever it is.
Not many people I see doing that. Things like that people value. Over the years when you have respect from players, you can see that.


Q. You joked in Cincinnati that you didn't want to be known as just the player who beat Serena. How do you see yourself now after a full season and some really great results along the way?
GARBINE MUGURUZA: I consider myself a very dangerous opponent. I don't really care who's in front of me. Obviously the situation and the tournament, it affects me, but I always think I have a chance to win.
I don't know, I have a lot of self-confidence on my game, so I'm aggressive. I go for the matches. Yeah, I think I'm dangerous. (Smiling.)

Congrats @Cibulkova !!! □□□@WTAFinalsSG Champion□@WTA #WTAFinals #Singapore pic.twitter.com/N72EbpMJ2S

— Mary Pierce (@_MaryPierce) October 30, 2016

Happy Halloween! pic.twitter.com/lLkIk7MuyC

— Aga Radwanska (@ARadwanska) October 31, 2016

We did it!!! @katemakarova1 Champions of @WTAFinalsSG □□□□□□□□Мы сделали это!□□□□□□□□ @WTA #WTAFinals #веснинамакарова #сингапур #победа pic.twitter.com/OM3tZxg764

— Elena Vesnina (@EVesnina001) October 30, 2016

#TeamKeys you guys make me so happy. Teary eyed reading your messages □

— Madison Keys (@Madison_Keys) October 27, 2016

I had to pull out of Paris qs as my racquet bag never made it to Paris from Birmingham so basically I had a day trip to Paris

— Dan Evans (@Evo151216) October 29, 2016

Great week in Vienna @ErsteBankOpen and another title !!!! Next stop ..Vienna ✈️ Paris #letsdothis pic.twitter.com/M0jXKmB4iy

— jamie delgado (@DelgadoJamie) October 30, 2016

They love me when im a winner
They judge me when im a loser
They always have an opinion
And… https://t.co/OvrAnt6o3l

— Svetlana Kuznetsova (@SvetlanaK27) October 26, 2016

A Viennese swirl? @ATPWorldTour pic.twitter.com/o53T2NUWjb

— judy murray (@JudyMurray) October 30, 2016

□□□□□□□□□□@mhingis pic.twitter.com/aegzK8F0zS

— Sania Mirza (@MirzaSania) October 28, 2016

RANKINGS WATCH

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  • ​ATP: Nishikori (+1 to #4), Federer (-2 to #9), Tsonga (+2 to #13), Ferrer (+3 to #16), del Potro (+4 to #38), Delbonis (+6 to #42), Sousa (-9 to #43), M Zverev (+19 to #53), Khachanov (+9 to #54), Anderson (-6 to #58), Lu (+17 to #65), Berankis (+15 to #76), Young (-10 to #93), Sela (-23 to #94)

  • ​WTA​​: Cibulkova (+3 to #5), Pliskova (-1 to #6), Muguruza (-1 to #7), Keys (-1 to #8), Niculescu (-2 to #39), Davis (+10 to #62), Dodin (+12 to #71), Parmentier (-4 to #73), Hsieh (-15 to #95), Kozlova (-4 to #96)

​ON THE WEB

Dominika Cibulkova Showed that, in Women's Tennis, Offense Still Wins
The Legend of Svetlana Kuznetsova Just Continues to Grow
Kerber Has Fou​nd a Way to Pick her Spots, Stand Ground at the Right Time
Kerber Savouring Rise to Top of Women's Tennis
​Mischa Zverev Following Little Brother's Footsteps up ATP Rankings
Tennis: Lots of data but coaches must use it wisely
Murray Victory Turns Battle For No. 1 Red Hot
​
Rising stars of tennis - Karen Khachanov
​Ernesto Escobedo living out his -- and his father's -- dream
The Tao of Domi: What Every Tennis Player can Learn from Dominika Cibulkova
​Doumbia Reflects On Breakthrough Week In Pune
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​PODCASTS

​
No Challenges Remaining - Episode 169: Steve Simon (and the Streams)
Tennis Connected - Previewing the 2016 Paris Masters
​MTO - WTA Finals preview with Courtney Nguyen (multiple episodes)
WTA Insider - POME! Dominika Cibulkova wins the WTA Finals (w/ Rohit Brijnath) (multiple episodes)
The Tennis Podcast - Cibulkova Strikes Gold; Andy Murray Closes On No.1; Chris Evert Interview
Realz Tenis Fanz - ​Podcast #73: WTA Vulture Finals
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