A quarterfinalist at SW19 in 2019 and 2021, Muchova has dropped just 10 games en route to the third round and next faces Thai qualifier Mananchaya Sawangkaew for a shot at going further.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Naomi Osaka, whom Muchova beat in the Bad Homburg final, is also surging on grass. The four-time major champion faces Daria Kasatkina on Friday night, targeting a place in the fourth round at Wimbledon for the first time at 28 years of age.<\/p>\n
Muchova\u2019s fellow Czechs Marie Bouzkova and Linda Noskova lifted grasscourt tournament trophies a week earlier, with Noskova winning the WTA 500 title in Berlin and Bouzkova triumphing in Nottingham.<\/p>\n
Bouzkova, a former Wimbledon quarterfinalist, won the Nottingham final over Emma Navarro, and both are through to the third round at the All England Club.<\/p>\n
Another Czech, 2024 Wimbledon winner Barbora Krejcikova, reached the final in s-Hertogenbosch to open the grasscourt season, foreshadowing her Centre Court upset of French champion Andreeva. She and Muchova are on course for a fourth-round showdown.
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And then there are the Americans, Frances Tiafoe and Taylor Fritz, who have thrived on grass this year and carried that form into Wimbledon. Tiafoe beat Fritz for the biggest title of his career in Halle, a week after Fritz reached the final on grass in Stuttgart.<\/p>\n
Should they win their third-round matches at Wimbledon, they will meet in a blockbuster last-16 clash.<\/p>\n
As Tiafoe and Fritz were battling it out in the Halle final, compatriots Tommy Paul (Queen\u2019s) and Jessica Pegula (Berlin) were also competing in grasscourt finals, and they too are into the third round at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A quarterfinalist at SW19 in 2019 and 2021, Muchova has dropped just 10 games en route to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-522717","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\/522717","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=522717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}