One less Grand Slam champion in a Wimbledon of surprises
The tenth different champion in recent editions could also be a new Grand Slam queen. It is in the hands of the American Coco Gauff, who surpassed his compatriot Jessica Pegula4-6, 6-3 and 6-3. Winner of the US Open 2023 and Roland Garros 2025, she qualified for the Wimbledon semi-finals for the first time. His rival will also debut.
It will be the Czech Karolina Muchova29 years old and No. 9, who defeated the Japanese Naomi Osaka28 years old and No. 14, by 7-6 (4) and 6-4. The Japanese had excited after leaving out the No. 1, the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenkabut it did not hold up to the ideal state of form of the European.
Without Osaka, goodbye a double champion of both the Australian Open and the US Open. Muchova repeated her victory in the final on grass Bad Homburg, the week before Wimbledon. Then the Asian retired when she lost 6-1, 1-0. In full conditions she was also unable to beat the Czech, who has won her last nine games, all of them on grass.
Muchova improves her participation at Wimbledon, where she had been in this quarterfinal round in 2019 and 2021. She then lost four matches in a row, making the first round from 2022 to 2025.
He was reunited in this edition with the victory, and in what way. She and Linda Noskova are defending Czech tradition at Wimbledon. In the round of 16 she had surpassed the 2024 champion, Barbora Krejcikova. Suspended for violation of doping rules Marketa Vondrousovathe winner in 2023. The absolute queen of the event is the Czech-American Martina Navratilova, nine individual titles in 120 singles won.
The two top-10 survivors will meet on Thursday at the All England Club. On Wednesday they will know how things are going at the bottom of the draw, where the quarterfinals remain to be played between the Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk and the Italian Jasmine Paolini (tournament finalist in 2024) and the Czech Linda Noskova in front of the Belgian Elise Mertens.
Muchova has continually suffered from injuries. When the physicist accompanies, he responds. Finalist at Roland Garros 2023, he had already made the semifinals at the US Open in 2023 and 2024 and at the Australian Open 2024. He is provisionally ranked sixth in the world. The best of his career.
