Great! The talented Czech Noskova opened the tournament in Brisbane by winning a marathon match!

You wouldn’t find a younger tennis player in the top 50 of the WTA rankings. Linda Noskova is ranked 41st and is definitely heading higher. On the first day of the new year, she started her participation in Brisbane. Will she beat her previous ranking high here?

Noskova and a successful 2023

In 2023, she enjoyed her first Grand Slam win as well as reaching the 40th position on the WTA rankings. Linda Nosková is one of the great promises of Czech tennis. At the age of nineteen, she is the youngest tennis player among the top fifty players in the world.

Currently she is ranked 41st, so it is realistic to expect new highs for the native of Vsetín. After all, she literally needs only a few points to break the previous record ranking.

She can move one step higher in the year that is just beginning and why start at the first tournament of the season. There, Noskova will face Hungary’s Babos in Brisbane, Australia.

The Czech enters the new season

The first match gave the Czech tennis player a hard time. She spent more than three hours on the court. Both players held their serves flawlessly until game number 12, when the Czech lost her serve at the last possible moment and lost 5:7.

It wasn’t a big difference and the unlucky end of the set affected the whole match. Noskova was in trouble on her first serve in the second set when she faced a break point from the Hungarian. However, she managed the situation and the set went to a tiebreak.

Even the shortened game was a marathon affair in itself. The Czech failed to convert four set points in a row, but luckily the fifth one brought the set. Tied.

And the deciding set continued the story of this extremely even match. Even five break points were not enough for the tennis players to successfully break their opponent’s serve. Again, it was a shortened game and the young Czech was again the winner.

Linda Noskova won the decisive tiebreak 7:2 and the whole match 2:1 in sets. The match lasted 188 minutes and Noskova can look forward to the second round match. She will challenge Romanian Cirstea, who is seeded number 10 in Brisbane.

Finally..

Brisbane is one of the few tournaments where the men are represented alongside the women. It is here that Rafael Nadal returns to the courts after a one-year break. And it’s great to have a good representation here.

Linda Noskova is a huge promise of Czech tennis and such victories can only help her in her career. It is the privilege of the best to win tiebreaks and the Czech has done it twice in the season opener.

Source: WTA, Irozhlas