Background and career
Linda Nosková (Czech pronunciation: [ˈlɪnda ˈnoskovaː]; born 17 November 2004) is a Czech professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 6 by the WTA, and a best doubles ranking of No. 36, both achieved on 24 August 2026. Nosková has won three career singles titles, including a major at the 2026 Wimbledon Championships. She has two doubles titles, including a WTA 1000 event. Nosková peaked at world No. 5 in the junior rankings in June 2021, achieved by winning the girls' singles event at the 2021 French Open. In August 2022, she became the youngest player to be ranked in the world's top 100. She had her breakthrough year in 2023, achieving her first WTA Tour final at the Adelaide International 1 as a qualifier and breaking into the top 50. In 2024, she achieved her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the Australian Open, defeating then-world No. 1, Iga Świątek, in the third round, and won her first Tour-level title at the Monterrey Open. In 2025, she reached her first career WTA 1000 final at the China Open. In 2026, she won her second WTA Tour title at the Berlin Tennis Open and first major title at Wimbledon.
Nosková grew up in a working-class family at the village of Bystřička in the Vsetín region. She is the daughter of Ivana Nosková, a local clothing shop owner who passed away in 2024 due to cancer, and Drahoš Nosek, a former railway company employee. Her first contact with tennis was at the age of seven, when she started training in Valašské Meziříčí. Three years later, she became a player for TK Na Dolina in Trojanovice near Frenštát pod Radhoštěm. In 2018, she moved to Přerov because of tennis.
Nosková won the 2021 French Open girls' singles title. On 14 June 2021, she reached world No. 5 in the combined ITF junior rankings. Grand Slam singles performance:
Australian Open: 2R (2020) French Open: W (2021) Grand Slam doubles performance:
Australian Open: QF (2020) French Open: SF (2021)
Nosková made her ITF Circuit debut in July 2019 at a 25k Torino tournament in qualifying. Despite failing to reach the main-draw, she got to the quarterfinal in the doubles event. In October of the same year, she made her singles main-draw debut at the 15k Lousada tournament and also won her first match as a senior. The following week, in the same city, she reached her first semifinal. A month later, she reached another semifinal, this time at the 15k Milovice event in her home country. Her new season started in August 2020 with the qualifying draw of the Prague Open, but she lost to Laura Ioana Paar. Three weeks later, she made her debut at the WTA Challenger Tour, playing at the Sparta Prague Open. Getting there after receiving a wildcard, she lost to Mayar Sherif in the first round. She finished her season with the 25k Přerov event where she lost to Barbora Krejčíková in the first round. It was only her third tournament of the year as well as her only tournament in doubles. In doubles, she also lost in the first round. Nosková started the 2021 season in the middle of February at a W15 Sharm El Sheikh event where she reached her first ITF final. After losing to Shalimar Talbi in the final, she reached another semifinal there the following week. In March 2021, she won her first senior ITF title at a W15 event in Bratislava, defeating fellow Czech Tereza Smitková in the final. Right after that, she won another 15k event in Bratislava (back-to-back titles), this time defeating Iva Primorac in the final. In June 2021, she advanced to the semifinals of the Macha Lake Open in Staré Splavy in both events, losing to Zheng Qinwen in singles. It was her first semifinal of a W60 event, but in August, she won her first 60k title at the Zubr Cup in Přerov. In the final, she defeated Alexandra Cadanțu-Ignatik. In October, she advanced to her first ITF final in doubles. A month later, she finished the year at the W25 tournament in Milove where she won her fourth title in singles and finished runner-up in doubles.
