A year ago, she experienced a dream tournament in Paris. As a junior, Linda Nosková dominated the clay grand slam, and this year, as a player in the world’s second hundred adults, she entered the French Open qualification. In the end, she doesn’t even regret not getting wild cards like her peer and namesake Linda Fruhvirt.
She successfully competes with adult rivals in ITF tournaments, has already won five of them and is in the top two in the rankings. Among players under the age of 18, the 17-year-old tennis player is currently the third best tennis player in the world.
Still, it’s not enough for her to get a wild card, for example, right into the main stage of the French Open.
“There was a bit of talk about it, but I think I still have time for that. I’m happy for the qualification, if I got there via a wild card, it would seem to me that I don’t belong there,” Nosková admitted to Aktuálně.cz.
On the other hand, her peer Linda Fruhvirt, who is behind her in the adult rankings, benefits a lot from wild cards. As a result, she played major WTA events in Miami and Madrid.
“Linda has a big IMG agency that focuses directly on the cards, so I’m not at all surprised that she gets them. But it’s better for me to play it through smaller tournaments, but with good players around the 100th place in the rankings,” the Přerov tennis player thinks.
So she has already made her way to the qualifications of grand slam companies, but to be sure, tickets to the main stage of tournaments already need to be in the top 100.
“Although I won something, I lost in a lot of tournaments, for example in the first or second round, I had those results very unstable, so I have to improve it,” Nosková perceives.
It is in constant performance that he sees the biggest difference in the transition from juniors to adults. “The girls aren’t so wrong in these tournaments anymore, I have to play it myself. But it will be completely different at WTA companies,” he said, adding that some WTA companies with a $ 125,000 subsidy would like to try after returning from Paris.
The increased media attention after she reached for the silver platter in Paris did not change it in any way. She is still a famous tennis introvert.
“Most people who know me know I’ve always been that way. If I had to throw emotions on the court, it certainly wouldn’t help me,” he says.
However, this does not mean that she does not care about the results and that she does not experience them enough. Last week at the tournament in Štvanice, after a crushing loss twice 1: 6 with two-year-old compatriot Nikola Bartůňková, she left the court in tears.
“It didn’t matter that it was the Czech Republic or that it was played in Prague, I didn’t care at all. I’m always most disappointed that I play badly, I was sad about myself,” she explained.
But she could be satisfied with the first round of qualifying in Paris on Monday, she managed the initial battle against the Russian Anna Blinkova after sets 6: 3 and 7: 5.
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