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Tipsarevic, Cibulkova win Kremlin Cup titles

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Janko Tipsarevic and Dominika Cibulkova won the mens and womens titles of Kremlin Cup.

Top-seeded Janko Tipsarevic beat defending champion Viktor Troicki 6-4, 6-2 in the first ever all-Serb ATP final to win the Kremlin Cup on Sunday, while Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia won her first career WTA title, rallying to beat Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 3-6, 7-6 (1), 7-5 for the womens crown.Tipsarevic, who won his first career title in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, earlier this season, broke Troicki twice in the second set and served for the match to love.Not waiting for Tipsarevic to come to the net to shake hands, Troicki jumped over the net and embraced his friend. Later they broke tradition and held a joint press conference.The eighth-seeded Cibulkova is the first womens player to win a maiden title in Moscow since the tournament started in 1994.The 20th-ranked Slovak had advanced to the final in three previous tournaments including last week in Linz, Austria, where she lost to Petra Kvitova.This is the first time Ive won my title, this is kind of my premiere, Cibulkova said. Ive played great tennis through the whole of the week.Kanepi broke Cibulkova in the fourth game of the first set to go 4-1 up and was close to breaking her again at 5-all in the second to serve for the match, but she smashed a volley wide in front of an empty court. The Slovak then dominated the tiebreaker to stay in the match. She broke decisively in the 11th game of the third set and sealed the win on her first match point when Kanepi returned wide.
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