New Delhi, July 11 -- WIMBLEDON - Karolina Muchova saved five championship points before Linda Noskova converted the sixth. In between, in a stretch that no one on Centre Court had anticipated, Muchova had transformed what looked like a foregone conclusion into something far less settled. Noskova won it anyway. She dropped to the grass, looked up, and began to weep.

Noskova defeated Muchova 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 in the Wimbledon women's final on Saturday, claiming her first Grand Slam title at 21. She is the youngest women's champion at the All England Club since Petra Kvitova won here in 2011, and the third Czech woman to lift the trophy in four years, following Marketa Vondrousova in 2023 and Barbora Krejcikova in 2024.

The first set gave no ...