{"id":790483,"date":"2026-07-10T02:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790483\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:44:16","slug":"wimbledon-news-2026-coco-gauff-fluffs-match-point-karolina-muchova-semi-final-video-highlights-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790483\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon news 2026: Coco Gauff fluffs match point, Karol\u00edna Muchov\u00e1 semi-final, video, highlights, reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coco Gauff<\/a> had match point, an open court, and a spot in the Wimbledon<\/a> final hers for the taking.<\/p>\n

Then she \u201cpanicked\u201d and did the unthinkable \u2013 changed her grip for a drop shot forehand and buried it straight into the net.<\/p>\n

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Coco Gauff bombed a straight-forward forehand on match point in the Wimbledon semi-final.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

On the world feed, Stephanie Brantz called it \u201cunmissable\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a third set 10-point tiebreaker against Karol\u00edna Muchov\u00e1, Gauff was up 9-8 when Muchov\u00e1 was able to put a stack of top-spin on a return straight down the T. The top-spin made the ball bounce higher than Gauff was expecting, and she made a meal of it. <\/p>\n

Less than five minutes later she was packing her bags, the Czech having won the match 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (12-10).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bounce kind of caught me off guard (and) I just panicked a little bit,\u201d Gauff said later.<\/p>\n

The bounce was slow enough that the 22-year-old had enough time to adjust and hit a forehand with a full swing. Instead, she attempted a drop shot and the rest is history.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople who don\u2019t watch tennis are going to be like, \u2019Why did you do that? At the end of the day, that\u2019s the choice I made,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She even practised a topspin forehand between points, indicating that she felt she made the wrong choice.<\/p>\n

\u201cWas it the right one in that moment? Maybe not. But then also, if I make it, everyone\u2019s going to say how clutch of a shot that was,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s just tennis. You lose some points off margins.\u201d<\/p>\n

She\u2019s far from the only player to have bombed match points at crucial moments in grand slams and then lost.<\/p>\n

Roger Federer<\/a> missed two match points in the 2019 final against Novak Djokovic<\/a> \u2013 a marathon five-setter that at 4hrs 57mins became the longest Wimbledon final ever. In last year\u2019s Roland-Garros<\/a> final, Jannik Sinner blew three against Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to think about it tonight,\u201d Gauff said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look at Roger, Jannik obviously at Roland-Garros, every great champion has this happen in their career. Maybe this is something I need to be on their level.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like if I had to do it over, I probably would have gone for a slice forehand down the line. It\u2019s a learning experience.<\/p>\n

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Muchov\u00e1 will play Linda Noskov\u00e1 in an all-Czech women\u2019s final.\u00a0AP Photo\/Kirsty Wigglesworth<\/p>\n

\u201cI know I can do better and improve on that, and going with a higher-margin shot in a pressure moment, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the second semi-final, Linda Noskov\u00e1 cruised past Marta Kostyuk 6-4, 6-4 to set up an all-Czech final.<\/p>\n

Friday night\u2019s action at Wimbledon is dominated by the two men\u2019s semi-finals.<\/p>\n

Arthur Fery will look to continue his dream run<\/a> against Alexander Zverev<\/a> from 10.30pm AEST, which will be followed by what fans will be hoping is another Sinner<\/a> versus Djokovic epic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff had match point, an open court, and a spot in the Wimbledon final hers for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-790483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790483","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=790483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}