{"id":790056,"date":"2026-07-09T22:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T22:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790056\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T22:05:09","slug":"wimbledon-2026-how-karolina-muchova-and-coco-gauffs-semi-final-was-decided-by-rollercoaster-tie-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790056\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2026: How Karolina Muchova and Coco Gauff&#8217;s semi-final was decided by rollercoaster tie-break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Muchova&#8217;s reward for her resilience is a meeting with Linda Noskova in the first all-Czech Grand Slam final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair will take to Centre Court on Saturday (16:00 BST) aiming to clinch the first major singles title of their careers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I admired the bravery of Karolina Muchova, she earned the win, she took the bull by the horns and went for it,&#8221; said Croft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gauff, meanwhile, will have to process just how she missed the chance to reach her first grass-court final at the All England Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just feel so bad for Coco because she kept fighting, fighting, fighting and finally gets to the match point and then didn&#8217;t get it,&#8221; Navratilova said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Both players played great tennis getting to the tie-break, both players got very nervous at the end and then Muchova got through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You wanted both to win at this point, but unbelievable stuff. My heart was racing and I was just sitting here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Muchova&#8217;s reward for her resilience is a meeting with Linda Noskova in the first all-Czech Grand Slam final.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-790056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}