Noskova has long been seen as a future star who could challenge for Grand Slam titles, having become the youngest player inside the top 100 in 2022.<\/p>\n
It has taken the 21-year-old a little time to find consistency at the Slams, but this fortnight she has shown she has a game which relies on pure power.<\/p>\n
When you stand next to Linda, she is actually taller than you would expect from seeing her on television, as she stands at 5ft 10in.<\/p>\n
She has a massive serve and a really heavy ball, which comes from the natural power through her long levers.<\/p>\n
She can also combine that with a lovely drop shot. She has a great touch and feel.<\/p>\n
But it’s not only about the power – that drop shot she’s got leaves opponents not knowing what’s coming next.<\/p>\n
Madison Keys, who Noskova beat in the fourth round, explained that when Linda has a time on a ball, you don’t know whether she’s going to absolutely smack it – so you move back behind the baseline – or pull out a drop shot.<\/p>\n
You can’t defend both.<\/p>\n
Against Muchova, Noskova will want to play on her terms and feel like she has control of the situation.<\/p>\n
Her serve is going to be key to allow her to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noskova has long been seen as a future star who could challenge for Grand Slam titles, having become…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-795073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}