Noskov’s life scalp! The 17-year-old Czech eliminated Cornet in Prague and is in the quarterfinals!
Winner of last year’s Paris Junior Linda Noskova in recent weeks he has been selling his great potential. In May, at Roland Garros, she made her Grand Slam debut and immediately went through the three-round qualification and in the main competition, she tormented the winner of last year’s US Open, Emma Raducanu.
Finally, she played her biggest semi-final in Makarska (WTA 125k), three weeks ago in Versmold, Germany (ITF W100), she achieved her sixth overall and most valuable triumph to date, and now she is playing her best tournament on the WTA circuit (only second overall) on her home ground in Stromovka, Prague. .
Starting as a wild card, the 17-year-old Czech got her first win in the first round after beating Natalie Vichlantseva and today she won for the first time even after using a match point. And immediately against the 38th player in the world Alizé Cornet. She played the Top 100 member for the third time and won for the first time.
Nosková will play with the 251st player in the world, one and a half moves into the Top 100 Nao Hibin. The Japanese woman got into the main competition only as a lucky loser, today she eliminated the defending champion Barbora Krejčíková.
We are preparing the details.
• Singles – 2nd round • |
Nosková (Czech Republic) – Cornet (5-Fr.) 7-5 1-6 7-6(7) |
Hibinová (Japan) – Krejčíková (2-CR) 3-6 7-6(5) 6-3 |
Kontaveitová (1-Est.) – Havlíčková (Czech Republic) 6-4 6-3 |
Potapova (7-) – Lin Zhu (China) 6-4 7-6(8) |