{"id":413596,"date":"2026-04-27T18:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/413596\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T18:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:11:10","slug":"coco-gauff-falls-to-linda-noskova-in-three-set-thriller-in-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/413596\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff falls to Linda Noskova in three-set thriller in round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. tennis<\/a> star Coco Gauff<\/a> was knocked out of the Madrid Open 2026<\/a> in the round of 16 on Monday (27 April), losing 6-4, 1-6, 7-6(5) to Czechia’s Linda Noskova<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Noskova took the opening set on the back of an early break Gauff couldn’t recover from. But the American answered in the second, breaking twice to take it 6-1 and level the match.<\/p>\n

Gauff, the reigning French Open champion, broke first in the third, capitalizing on a Noskova double-fault to lead 1-0, and saved a 0-40 deficit on her own serve to consolidate for 2-0.<\/p>\n

She pushed the lead to 4-1 before Noskova broke back for 2-4, held to 3-4, and broke again to level the set at 4-4.<\/p>\n

Both then held their serve to force a\u00a0tiebreak.<\/p>\n

Gauff led 3-0 before Noskova won four of the next five points to take a 5-4 edge. Gauff held to 5-5, then sent a forehand long to give Noskova match point at 6-5. The Czech sealed it on her next serve.<\/p>\n

Gauff has been dealing with illness throughout her run in Madrid, including during her third-round win over Sorana Cirstea, when she was sick on court.<\/p>\n

Noskova advances to face either Marta Kostyuk or Caty McNally in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

Four-time Olympic gold medallist Venus Williams<\/a> was eliminated from the doubles draw, falling 6-4, 6-4 alongside Britain’s Katie Boulter to seventh seeds Su-Wei Hsieh and Sofia Kenin.<\/p>\n

Aryna Sabalenka<\/a>, meanwhile, came back from a set down against Naomi Osaka<\/a> to triumph in three sets 6-7, 6-3, 6-2 to make it to the last eight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. tennis star Coco Gauff was knocked out of the Madrid Open 2026 in the round of 16…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-413596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}