Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia squares against Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues in her opening encounter of the 2012 New Haven Open, Yale.

Currently ranked at World No. 13, Dominika Cibulkova has an ordinary 28-21 win-loss record for the season and won her second-career title at Carlsbad this year. Earlier this year, she finshed as runner-up at Barcelona Open and then reached QF at Roland Garros. She then made into the quarter-finals of both 's-Hertogenbosch and Stanford.

Her opponent: Anabel Medina Garrigues is currently ranked at No 30 and has poor 21/20 win loss record this year and still chaising her first title on tour.

Both the players have met three times before and Cibulkova leads 2-1 in head to head record.