WIMBLEDON — In the Czech Republic, grand slam finalists are 10 a penny in the women’s game. Even Wimbledon finalists are fairly common.
Linda Noskova will face fellow Czech player Karolina Muchova in Saturday’s final, guaranteeing that there will be a Wimbledon champion from that country for the third time in the last four years: Marketa Vondrousova, Barbora Krejcikova and now one of these two.
Since Petra Kvitova won Wimbledon in 2011, there have now been seven different Czech women in grand slam finals, and the country currently boasts eight players in the world’s top 50.
However, this is the first time two have faced off in a final in the history of the game, and the country will probably be split between Noskova and Muchova.
Muchova is into her second grand slam final (Photo: Getty)
