Tomáš Cibulec

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**Tomáš Cibulec**

Nickname(s)	Ciba[1]
Country	Czech Republic
Residence	Havířov, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Date of birth	January 15, 1978 (1978-01-15) (age 30)
Place of birth	Havířov, Czech Republic
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	80 kg (180 lb)
Turned pro	1996
Retired	Active
Plays	Right
Career prize money	$US721,654
Singles
Career record:	0–0
Career titles:	0 ATP
Highest ranking:	646 (August 3, 1998)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	N/A
French Open	N/A
Wimbledon	N/A
US Open	N/A
Doubles
Career record:	141-182
Career titles:	3 ATP
Highest ranking:	21 (March 17, 2003)
Infobox last updated on: October 28, 2007.

Tomáš Cibulec (born January 15, 1978 in Havířov, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic) is a quad-lingual professional Czech tennis player who turned professional in 1996. Cibulec reached his highest singles ranking on August 3, 1998, becoming World Number 646. His highest doubles ranking is World Number 21, which he reached on March 17, 2003. A winner of three ATP doubles titles, Cibulec plays with his right hand and resides in Havířov, the city of his birth. Jindrich and Anna Cibulec are his parents. Before Cibulec became a professional, he became a tennis player at when he was seven. He liked Stefan Edberg and Czechoslovak Miloslav Mečíř as a child. He likes clay and feels his volley as his strength.[2]

1 Tennis career
2 ATP Tour Titles
- 2.1 Doubles (3)
- 2.2 Doubles Finalist (8)
3 External links

[edit] Tennis career

Cibulec has successfully partnered with compatriots Ota Fukarek, Leoš Friedl, Petr Pála, Pavel Vízner and Croatian Lovro Zovko. He also reached the 2002 French Open doubles semifinals with Leander Paes. However, Cibulec has only won ATP doubles tournaments with Vízner and Friedl. He has reached one final with Futarek, won one out of three finals with Friedl, lost in one final with both Pála, has won two out of five doubles finals with Vízner, and lost in one final with Zovko.

In 2007, Cibulec and Zovko made the final of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow, but the pairing lost to at-home Russians Dmitry Tursunov and former singles number one Marat Safin 6–2, 6–4 in the final. En route, however, Cibulec and Zovko defeated 2007 French Open and 2007 U.S. Open finalists Lukáš Dlouhý and Cibulec's former partner Pavel Vízner 6–2, 6–2. At moscow, Dlouhý and Vízner were the second-seeded doubles entrents.

As of October 28, 2007, Cibulec is 60^th in doubles rankings.

[edit] ATP Tour Titles

[edit] Doubles (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	July 24, 2000	San Marino	Clay	Leoš Friedl	Gastón Etlis Jack Waite	7–6 (1), 7–5
2.	February 24, 2003	Copenhagen	Hard	Pavel Vízner	Michael Kohlmann Julian Knowle	7–5, 5–7, 6–2
3.	July 14, 2003	Stuttgart	Clay	Pavel Vízner	Yevgeny Kafelnikov Kevin Ullyett	3–6, 6–3, 6–4

[edit] Doubles Finalist (8)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partnering	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	December 31, 2001	Chennai	Hard	Ota Fukarek	Mahesh Bhupathi Leander Paes	5–7, 6–2, 7–5
2.	January 6, 2003	Auckland	Hard	Pavel Vízner	David Adams Robbie Koenig	7–6 (5), 3–6, 6–3
3.	January 23, 2003	Milan	Carpet	Pavel Vízner	Radek Štěpánek Petr Luxa	6–4, 7–6 (4)
4.	February 10, 2003	Marseille	Hard	Pavel Vízner	Sebastian Grosjean Fabrice Santoro	6–1, 6–4
5.	May 17, 2004	Sankt Pölten	Clay	Leoš Friedl	Mariano Hood Petr Pála	3–6, 7–5, 6–4
6.	June 7, 2004	Halle	Grass	Petr Pála	Leander Paes David Rikl	6–2, 7–5
7.	June 13, 2005	s'Hertogenbosch	Grass	Leoš Friedl	Cyril Suk Pavel Vízner	6–3, 6–4
8.	October 8, 2007	Moscow	Hard	Lovro Zovko	Marat Safin Dmitry Tursunov	6–4, 6–2