Dominika Cibulkova Could Postpone Her Marriage as Wimbledon Run Subsists

Her defeat by Elena Vesnina means that the Slovak will not be forced to postpone her wedding, much to her disappointment. And then I woke up, and said: ‘No, I have to play match today.

“I was expecting a tough match, and that’s what it was. I will just look forward to the wedding”. “I think every set was better than the other one”. I dropped out of the top 100 and had hard times.

“We chose this (date) because I never saw myself as such a great grasscourt player”, a beaming Cibulkova said.

“It was like a dream came true”.

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“I’m not supposed to say this, but really I didn’t like grass at all”, said Pavlyuchenkova.

Despite considerable pre-match hype about Johnson, fresh from victory at the Nottingham grasscourt event, there was to be no Independence Day party for the burly American, as Federer showed more than enough to suggest he remains on track for a record eighth Wimbledon men’s singles crown. “I want to get a good rest and I just want to play well tomorrow”.

“If you give me balls from the US Open and from Roland Garros (the French Open site) …I tell you, this is this one…this is this one”, Cibulkova told a reporter. So will it be get me to the church on time or simply one of the biggest days of her life at Church Road, SW19? “There is something in it”.

For Serena Williams, the match swung in her favour once the roof was shut over Centre Court, as she reeled off the last nine games to beat Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-5, 6-0 and reach the quarters for the 12th time. Last year, she lost in the third round.

Cibulkova defeated Poland’s Radwanska en route to her first grass-court title at Eastbourne last month and emulated that result with a surprise 6-3, 5-7, 9-7 fourth round victory to secure her first Wimbledon quarter-final berth since 2011.

“It would be great (to play Venus). I want her to win, obviously not if I’m there, but I desperately want her to win”.

If she does have to postpone the wedding, Cibulkova might have to make space for two more guests.

“The road was six years”, said Venus. Afterwards I was really crying.

“I don’t have any regrets about anything that’s taken place in between”.

The 36-year-old will now face German fourth seed and Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber who reached her second Wimbledon semi-final with a 7-5, 7-6 (7/2) win over Simona Halep, the fifth seed from Romania. “But grass always was a good surface for me”, Halep said. “For sure, I haven’t had an easy road, but a lot of people haven’t. I have never had consistency in my work or off court and everything, so now I’m trying to put all those pieces like puzzles together and stay quite consistent with my work and everything outside the court, so I guess that’s helping”. I worked with my coach on different things.

The 2014 Australian Open runner-up said: “They all know I’m here and playing”.