win her maiden Grand Slam<\/a> title:<\/p>\nAge: 21<\/p>\n
Nation: Czech Republic<\/p>\n
WTA ranking: 12<\/p>\n
Seeding: 9<\/p>\n
Grand Slam titles: 1 (Wimbledon 2026)<\/p>\n
ROAD TO FINAL<\/p>\n
First round: beat Ella Seidel 6-4 6-3<\/p>\n
Second round: beat Camila Osorio 6-3, 4-6, 6-2
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Third round: beat Sorana Cirstea 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (9)<\/p>\n
Fourth round: beat Madison Keys 6-4, 7-6 (2)<\/p>\n
Quarter-final: beat Elise Mertens 6-3, 7-5<\/p>\n
Semi-final: beat Marta Kostyuk 6-4, 6-4<\/p>\n
EARLY LIFE<\/p>\n
![\"Linda](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/12noskova4.jpg\" "\\"Linda")
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\u2022 Noskova made her WTA qualifying debut in Prague in 2020.<\/p>\n
\u2022 She won the 2021 French Open girls’ singles title and finished the season with a 38-9 win-loss record, capturing four ITF Circuit titles, including a W60 event in Prerov, Czech Republic.<\/p>\n
CAREER TO DATE<\/p>\n
\u2022 Started her professional career on the ITF circuit in 2022, winning six titles.<\/p>\n
\u2022 She broke into the top 100 on August 1, 2022, after a semi-final run in Prague, becoming the youngest player in the rankings by overtaking Coco Gauff.<\/p>\n
\u2022 In a breakthrough 2023 season, Noskova finished runner-up at Adelaide 1 as a qualifier, losing to Aryna Sabalenka, and at Prague, where she lost to Nao Hibino. She also reached the quarter-finals in Lyon and the third round at Indian Wells and Cincinnati, breaking into the top 40 on October 9, 2023.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Noskova reached her first Grand Slam quarter-final at the 2024 Australian Open, where she upset then world number one Iga Swiatek in the third round before losing to Dayana Yastremska.<\/p>\n
\u2022 She also won her maiden WTA singles title at Monterrey in the same year, defeating Lulu Sun in the final. She also reached the semi-finals in Prague and Brisbane.<\/p>\n
\u2022 In 2025, she reached three tour finals — her first WTA 1000 final in Beijing, where she lost to Amanda Anisimova, plus Prague and Tokyo — made her top 20 debut and ended the season at a career-high year-end No. 13.<\/p>\n
\u2022 This was Noskova’s eighth career WTA singles final.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Noskova is the fourth player since 2020 to reach their first Grand Slam singles final at Wimbledon, joining Elena Rybakina, Ons Jabeur and Amanda Anisimova.<\/p>\n
\u2022 She defeated Muchova in the Wimbledon final on Saturday to become the youngest player to win Wimbledon since Petra Kvitova in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IMAGE: Czech Republic’s Linda Noskova celebrates with the trophy after winning Wimbledon singles final against compatriot Karolina Muchova…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1696,1618,1788,13149,1713,13148,8714,13147,285,282],"class_list":["post-38328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-amanda-anisimova","tag-amanda-anisimova","tag-czech-republic","tag-dayana-yastremska","tag-ella-seidel-6-4-6-3","tag-karolina-muchova","tag-marta-kostyuk-6-4-6-4","tag-noskova","tag-prague","tag-wimbledon","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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