WTA Finals Singapore 2014–2018: 5 Glorious Years, 5 Great Champions

2016: Dominika Cibulkova (Slovakia)

Dominika Cibulkova - 2016 WTA Finals Champion

Dominika Cibulkova entered the tournament as the seventh seed. She, like the champions of the previous two years, was placed in the “Red group”. In her group was the top seed Angelique Kerber, Simona Halep and Madison Keys.

She could manage only one win in the group stage, against Halep whom she defeated in straight sets, whilst losing to Kerber and Madison Keys. But like Agnieszka Radwanska the previous year, that solitary victory was enough for her to reach the semi-final stage.

In the semi-final, she met Svetlana Kuznetsova, rebounding from a drubbing in the first set to finally win in three sets. In the final, she met Kerber again who had till then remained undefeated in the tournament. But this time Cibulkova got the better of the top seed in straight sets, and won the biggest title of her career.

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For Amarjeet Nayak, sports is a part of life. From Federer, the "GoAT" to Sachin, the "God", he has lived the agony and ecstasy of his favourite sports persons along with them, but with the passage of time he has learnt to love sports a wee bit more than the sports persons. He understands that his favourite sports persons just play a small, but significant part in the glorious history of various sports, but no sports person is above sports. Though tennis takes up much of the time that he dedicates to sports, he keenly follows India's national pastime Cricket as well as football, badminton, hockey, and athletics, to name a few.

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