--- title: Dominika Cibulkova Almost Canceled Her Wedding For Wimbledon description: Slovakian tennis player Dominika Cibulkova almost canceled her wedding for Wimbledon finals. canonical: https://time.com/4393454/dominika-cibulkova-wedding-cancel-wimbledon/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-05T17:10:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:02.982Z og:title: This Tennis Star Almost Canceled Her Wedding For Wimbledon og:description: The ladies finals was on the same day as her planned nuptials og:url: https://time.com/4393454/dominika-cibulkova-wedding-cancel-wimbledon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4144ee719e277e5a/69889aa6f887dcbbfde96828/tennis-player-cancel-wedding-wimbledon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: TENNIS-GBR-WIMBLEDON og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Tennis Star Almost Canceled Her Wedding For Wimbledon twitter:description: The ladies finals was on the same day as her planned nuptials twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4144ee719e277e5a/69889aa6f887dcbbfde96828/tennis-player-cancel-wedding-wimbledon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Tennis Player Almost Canceled Her Wedding for Wimbledon Final > Sponsored content. 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(JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images) Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova returns to Russia's Elena Vesnina during their women's singles quarter-final match on the ninth day of the 2016 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on July 5, 2016\. (JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images) JUSTIN TALLIS—AFP/Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jul 5, 2016 5:10 PM UTC Slovakian tennis star Dominika Cibulkova almost called off her wedding to play in the finals at [Wimbledon](http://time.com/4392192/sam-querrey-novak-djokovic-wimbledon/), thanks to her winning streak in the competition. The 27-year-old, 19th seeded player will tie the knot with fiancée of four years, Miso Navara, on Saturday in her home town of Bratislava, which happens to be the same day as the Wimbledon singles final. Cibulkova was considering canceling her wedding if she progressed to the final; however Russia’s Elena Vesnina took the slot in today’s match. Cibulkova hadn’t anticipated making it this far into competition when planning her nuptials, but took the possibility and loss in stride. “We planned this \[the wedding\] nine months ago,” Cibulkova said to the [_Daily Mail_](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3674389/Dominika-Cibulkova-cancel-nuptials-victim-success-Wimbledon.html). “You never know what can happen.” While Cibulkova celebrates her wedding, Vesnina will face [Serena Williams](http://time.com/3694659/serena-williams-indian-wells/) in the final. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4393454/dominika-cibulkova-wedding-cancel-wimbledon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4393454/dominika-cibulkova-wedding-cancel-wimbledon/"},"headline":"This Tennis Player Almost Canceled Her Wedding for Wimbledon Final","datePublished":"2016-07-05T17:10:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:34:02.982Z","description":"The final was on the same day as her nuptials","url":"https://time.com/4393454/dominika-cibulkova-wedding-cancel-wimbledon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Sports topic","Wimbledon"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4144ee719e277e5a/69889aa6f887dcbbfde96828/tennis-player-cancel-wedding-wimbledon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4144ee719e277e5a/69889aa6f887dcbbfde96828/tennis-player-cancel-wedding-wimbledon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TENNIS-GBR-WIMBLEDON","caption":"TENNIS-GBR-WIMBLEDON","creditText":"JUSTIN TALLIS—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4393454/dominika-cibulkova-wedding-cancel-wimbledon/","name":"This Tennis Player Almost Canceled Her Wedding for Wimbledon Final"}}]}] ```