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Watch: Dominika Cibulkova can identify tennis balls by smell

Dominika Cibulkova can tell where tennis balls came from just by smelling them. 

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Dominika Cibulkova may have bowed out in the Wimbledon quarterfinals on Tuesday, but at least she got to show off her impressive, useless talent before she exited. 

Cibulkova once boasted that she could tell you which Grand Slam tournament a ball came from, just by smelling it. Thankfully, the BBC decided to see if she was telling the truth. It turns out, she is.

Do the French Open balls really smell that much like cigarettes and red wine?