{"id":609669,"date":"2026-04-27T17:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/609669\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T17:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:46:10","slug":"linda-noskova-earns-first-career-win-over-coco-gauff-at-mutua-madrid-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/609669\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Noskova earns first career win over Coco Gauff at Mutua Madrid Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coco Gauff<\/a>, the 2025 Mutua Madrid Open<\/a> finalist, looked better physically in her Round of 16 match against Linda Noskova.<\/p>\n

No one but Gauff knows if any of the virus symptoms she experienced yesterday were still present, but she put up a valiant effort against the Czech.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

Noskova never beat Gauff in her career, and she did not win any tiebreakers this season. She rectified both in the third set to seal the win.<\/p>\n

MORE: Aryna Sabalenka shrieks her way to victory over Naomi Osaka<\/a><\/p>\n

Linda Noskova reigns<\/p>\n

She came out looking very sharp in the first set, but Gauff, the ultimate competitor took the second set.<\/p>\n

In the third, Gauff had a sizeable lead (4-1) but Noskova worked her way back.<\/p>\n

Noskova, 21, has long been a top talent in a loaded Czech Republic group that includes Karolina Muchova, Barbora Krejcikova, Katerina Siniakova, and the recently returned from years of injuries, Karolina Pliskova, who is also into the Madrid quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

MORE: Ranking the tennis greats who spent the most weeks at World No. 1<\/p>\n

She will play the winner of the Caty McNally<\/a> and Marta Kostyuk Round of 16 match.<\/p>\n

\"\"Baptiste is only American into quarterfinals so far<\/p>\n

With Gauff\u2019s exit, and McNally yet to play, American women only have one person in the Mutua Madrid Open quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

Hailey Baptiste<\/a> continues her incredible 2026 campaign when she faces World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

If McNally wins her match, she will be the second American woman in the quarters and will face Noskova.<\/p>\n

Once again, the depth of talent in American women\u2019s singles tennis<\/a> is on display as the usual frontrunners, Gauff, Anisimova Anisimova (out with injury), Madison Keys<\/a> (withdrew with illness), and Jessica Pegula are out while Baptiste and potentially McNally are seeking career-defining wins in Madrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coco Gauff, the 2025 Mutua Madrid Open finalist, looked better physically in her Round of 16 match against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[652,5113,11323,78304,65709,264871,99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-609669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-aryna-sabalenka","9":"tag-coco-gauff","10":"tag-karolina-pliskova","11":"tag-linda-noskova","12":"tag-madrid-open","13":"tag-round-of-16-match","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}