It was a huge celebration of love that was watched breathlessly by all her fans. Dominika Cibulková and her husband Michal Navara just a few days ago they celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary, but they have been by each other’s side for more than a decade. “When you find the one you love, never let her go! Move mountains, change jobs, figure out what you need to do to be together and do it. Together we achieved more than we could have done alone.” admitted Michal Navara, whom the famous tennis player met when she was in her early twenties.
Disco love
Dominika and Michal met in 2010 in a more traditional way than you might think. The couple met at a disco in a Bratislava night club, where they exchanged phone numbers. Dominika was already a well-known tennis player at that time, so Navara, according to her words addressed the most embarrassing phrase. “Hello, do you play badminton?” he asked her then.
The unusual “wrapping” technique worked for him and the pair started exchanging one message after another. Although Michal suspected that Dominika was a well-known tennis player, he was convinced of this only at their first official public meeting. Dominika invited him to the Fed Cup meeting, where she played against China. Michal came to the match just two weeks after their disco meeting.
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No tennis player
“When we started dating, I didn’t know anything about sports and I didn’t even know the rules of tennis. That’s also why I managed to make a few fan mishaps. For example, I started clapping at my opponent’s second double fault, and only Domča had to explain to me that this is simply not appropriate or done in tennis.” he mentioned smiling Michal about their beginnings, which were immediately connected with tennis.
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Just after the match against China, she admitted to the media that she has a new boyfriend in her life. “He is not a businessman and finally not even a tennis player like the last three. He’s completely normal,” she spoke then a native of Piešťany. Her first partner was the Ukrainian tennis player Sergiy Stachovskij, and after him the partner of the petite Slovak was the nearly two-meter tall French tennis player Gaël Monfils. Later she also dated the talented Austrian Jürgen Melzer.
When she started dating Michal Navar, tabloid journalists they found out, that it is not really a tennis player, but a young engineer who at that time worked as a civil servant at the Ministry of Agriculture. Although he refused to speak to reporters, his social media statuses spoke volumes. “I must be crazy, but I’m in love” he wrote on Facebook at the time he started to form a couple with Dominika.
They combined love and top sport
At that moment, he had no idea that he would sacrifice his own career for this woman and her life’s passion. If they wanted to work, one of them had to compromise.
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