(July 9, 2026) It will be an all-Czech final Saturday for the Ladies’ final at Wimbledon. No. 10 seed Karolina Muchova saved a match point to stop No. 7 seed, American Coco Gauff 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (12-10) on Thursday, while Linda Noskova defeated Marta Kostyuk 6-4, 6-4.
in the first all-Czech women’s singles final in Wimbledon history. The winner will become a first-time Grand Slam champion.
“It’s a very special moment,” Muchova said in her news conference. “It’s a great achievement. This is one of the biggest tournaments that we have with all the history. So many legends have played here. Just to play on Centre Court was so nice. I’m incredibly happy that it happened and that I have another chance to play a final.”
Serving for the match at 9-8 in the tiebreaker, Gauff tried to hit a forehand dropshot, which landed in the net.
“It was a rollercoaster,” Muchova said “One point I felt good, I hit a nice winner, and then I did like a terrible mistake.” “In my head was just like I have to keep hitting. I was telling myself if I’m going to lose this, I want to lose on my own terms. My terms is going forward, playing aggressive, going to the net.”
“At the end of the day, that’s the choice I made,” Gauff said in terms of the drop shot she didn’t make in her post-match news conference. “Was it the right one in that moment? Maybe not. But then also, if I make it, everyone’s going to say how clutch of a shot that was. I think that’s just tennis. You lose some points off margins. Honestly, the return came back like in a tricky place for me. The bounce kind of caught me off guard. I just panicked a little bit. I think it just takes moments like this to learn from, have more of a clear, concise plan of what I want to do.
“At the end of the day, I left it all out there. My only regret — or I don’t have any regrets. I think it’s just obviously points I want to make better decisions on. But that’s how you learn and become a better player.”
“The bounce kind of caught me off guard,” Gauff said. “I just panicked a little bit.”
Noskova said that tennis was not on her radar as a child until 2011 Czech Petra Kvitova win Wimbledon in 2011.
“That is maybe one of the first moments when I realized that such a sport as tennis exists,” the 21-year-old Noskova said in her on-court interview.
The all-Czech final means that Wimbledon will crown a Czech female champion at the All England Club for the third time in four years, after Marketa Vondrousova won it in 2023 and Barbora Krejcikova in 2024.
