New Delhi, July 10 -- WIMBLEDON - Coco Gauff held match point at 9-8 in the deciding tiebreak. She chose a drop shot. It caught the tape. Karolina Muchova, the Czech veteran who had been waiting on the other side of the net for her moment, calmly closed it out from there. Gauff's unforced error at the most compressed moment of the match condensed everything about what went wrong Thursday - and everything that Muchova, patient and precise across two and a half hours, had earned.

Muchova defeated Gauff 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 in a match that swung three times and resolved in a 12-10 tiebreak that will define Wimbledon 2026. She will face compatriot Linda Noskova in the women's final on Saturday, the first all-Czech Grand Slam final in nine years. Sk...