Karolina Muchova ended Coco Gauff's run at Wimbledon with a 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (10) victory Thursday that ended with a drama-filled tiebreaker, becoming the fourth Czech woman in the last six years to reach the final of the grass-court Grand Slam. The ninth-ranked Muchova will compete in her second Grand Slam final after losing to Iga Swiatek in the 2023 French Open championship match. Muchova could face another Czech player in Saturday's final, with Linda Noskova set to play Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine in the other semifinal on Centre Court. The other Czech women in the Wimbledon final recently were Karolina Pliskova, who was runner-up in 2021, Marketa Vondrousova, who won the championship in 2023, and Barbora Krejcikova, who won the championship in 2024.
For Gauff, it was still her most successful Wimbledon. Previously, the seventh-ranked American had gone only as far as the fourth round three times, including during her breakthrough run as a 15-year-old in 2019. The men's semifinals on Friday feature top-ranked and defending champion Jannik Sinner against seven-time Wimbledon winner Novak Djokovic and French Open champion Alexander Zverev against British wild card Arthur Fery.