Good news from Cibulkova in California as she managed to win her 2nd career title.
“In past finals I was too nervous and this was first final I was just going for it,” said an elated Dominika. The Slovakian won the first set without many problems. She didn’t even have to play the set point since it was a horrible double fault by Marion. The second set was much more even “It was a really important game at 4-3 on her serve where there was this was this long rally which I finished with this forehand down the line,” Cibulkova said. “And I was like ‘okay, this set is going to be mine’.”
Bartoli looked quite tired as she had to battle through the previous 3 matches
“I think the toughest part for me was to play three matches at night and then come to the day session, which is obviously different,” she said.
“I played well to get the lead in the second and get to 4-1 but from then on, I started to feel a bit tired and was not moving so quickly. But she played very fast and extremely well, so she made me feel uncomfortable as well.”
