Linda Nosková

Linda Nosková (born 17 November 2004) is a Czech professional tennis player.

She has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of world No. 30, reached on 29 January 2024, and a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 107, set on 12 February 2024.

Her best singles performance at the majors is reaching the quarterfinals at the 2024 Australian Open, defeating world No. 1, Iga Świątek, en route.

In August 2022, she became the youngest player ranked in the world's top 100 and in February 2023 the youngest in the top 50.

On the ITF Circuit, she has collected six singles titles and one doubles title.

Her biggest title win so far came at the $100k Reinert Open in Versmold in 2022.

From an early age, Nosková showed signs of becoming a promising tennis player.

As a junior, she peaked at world No. 5 in the rankings, achieved on 14 June 2021.

She won the 2021 French Open in the girls' singles event and made the semifinals of the girls' doubles event, as well as the girls' doubles quarterfinals of the 2020 Australian Open.

Nosková grew up in the village of Bystřička in the Vsetín region.

Her first touch 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.

She made her Grand Slam main-draw debut at the French Open as a qualifier, making her the youngest Czech player to compete at a major since Nicole Vaidišová (17 years 127 days) at the 2006 US Open and the youngest player to qualify for the tournament since 16-year-old Michelle Larcher de Brito in 2009.

In the first round of the main draw, she faced US Open champion Emma Raducanu and lost despite winning the first set.

The following week, she reached the semifinals of the WTA 125 Makarska International Championships.

In 2018, she moved to Přerov because of tennis.

Junior Grand Slam results – Singles:

Junior Grand Slam results – Doubles:

Nosková won the 2021 French Open girls' singles title.

On 14 June 2021, she reached world No. 5 in the combined ITF junior rankings.

Nosková made her ITF Circuit debut in July 2019 at the $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 2020 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 tournament 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 the $15k 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 the $15k 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 reached the semifinal of the Macha Lake Open in Staré Splavy in both events, losing to Zheng Qinwen in singles.

It was her first semifinal of a $60k 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 $25k Milove tournament where she won her fourth title in singles and finished as a runner-up in doubles.