Linda Nosková is a Czech tennis player who helped the Czech team win the Billie Jean King Cup in September 2026.
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Linda Nosková is a Czech tennis player; in September 2026 she was twenty-one [2]. She represented Czechia at the Billie Jean King Cup finals in Shenzhen, China. In the 2026 season Nosková won Wimbledon and the tournament in Berlin and reached the quarterfinals of the US Open; she is ranked sixth in the world, with a guaranteed place at the WTA Finals. [5]
In the final on 27 September 2026 the Czech team beat Ukraine 2–0. In the deciding match Nosková defeated Elina Svitolina 6–3, 7–6 [1][4]. Svitolina was ranked seventh; Nosková turned the first set around from 1–3 with a run of five games in a row. [6] It was the Czech team's twelfth title in the competition and the first since 2018 [4]. The team was led by captain Barbora Strýcová [3][4]. After the final Nosková called the victory a dream come true [1]. In the qualifying round in April she saved three match points against Belinda Bencic, without which the Czech team would have been absent from the finals. [5] In the quarterfinal, the semifinal and the final she won the decisive second point and dropped no set, so her singles record for the national team stands at nine wins and two defeats. [5]