One of the latest in a long line of Czech talents, Noskova had been tipped as a future star who could challenge for Grand Slam titles.<\/p>\n
She was a highly rated junior who became the youngest player inside the top 100 in 2022 and a run to the Australian Open quarter-finals in 2024 underlined her ability.<\/p>\n
Runs at the majors have been rare, but reaching the fourth round at Wimbledon last year made her feel “comfy” on the grass when she returned this year.<\/p>\n
Noskova set herself up for a deep run in SW19 by winning the Berlin title last month, while Muchova also claimed a grass-court title at Bad Homburg.<\/p>\n
But both players acknowledged in their on-court interviews how difficult Wimbledon has been physically and emotionally.<\/p>\n
Noskova had to fight back from match point down in her third-round encounter against Romania’s Sorana Cirstea.<\/p>\n
She is only the third player – after Venus Williams in 2005 and Serena Williams in 2009 – to win the Wimbledon women’s singles title from such a position.<\/p>\n
If Muchova had completed a scarcely believable comeback, it would have been the second time this tournament she had fought back from match point down after her semi-final win over Coco Gauff.<\/p>\n
With her natural craft and guile, Muchova has long been a player loved by fans for her unique talent.<\/p>\n
It has felt cruel to see someone with so much ability regularly set back by a succession of injuries, with a wrist problem last year forcing her to temporarily switch to a one-handed backhand.<\/p>\n
Perhaps because of her struggles, Muchova received a greater share of the crowd support and was also in tears as she spoke afterwards.<\/p>\n
“I will be fighting more. I want the trophy and I hope I can reach the final again and come back and win,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the latest in a long line of Czech talents, Noskova had been tipped as a future…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-536886","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\/536886","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=536886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}