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Sibley has won national singles titles at Cadet, Junior, U21 and Senior level, girls' doubles titles at U12, Cadet and Junior levels, women's doubles at Senior level and mixed doubles at Junior and Senior Levels. She won the women's singles national championship in March 2015 and was runner up the
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At the age of 13, she was invited to live and train at the
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Sibley married her wife Laura in April 2017. They met just after the 2012 Summer
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Sibley won 10 consecutive international matches at the 2011 European
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