{"id":75900,"date":"2026-07-09T07:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/wimbledon-2026-muchova-v-gauff-kostyuk-v-noskova-semi-final-updates-live\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T07:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:54:54","slug":"wimbledon-2026-muchova-v-gauff-kostyuk-v-noskova-semi-final-updates-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/wimbledon-2026-muchova-v-gauff-kostyuk-v-noskova-semi-final-updates-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2026: Muchova v Gauff, Kostyuk v Noskova semi-final updates \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updates from Thursday\u2019s semi-final action in SW19
Wimbledon Q&A with Tumaini Carayol<\/a> | Mail Katy<\/a><\/p>\n

Gauff does hold a 6-1 lead in their head-to-head, by the way, but I\u2019m not sure we can read too much into that, as none of those matches were on grass. <\/strong>Gauff, arguably the best competitor in the women\u2019s game, has made an art out of \u201cwinning ugly\u201d \u2013 the phrase made famous by her former coach Brad Gilbert \u2013 and has consistently found a way to come through three-setters during this tournament even when she\u2019s not been at her best. She may well need all that fight to combat Muchova\u2019s mix of power and touch \u2013 which is so dangerous on grass \u2013 especially if Gauff\u2019s serve and forehand wobble, as they sometimes do. Gauff\u2019s backhand, though, is brilliant. Will temperament + backhand or power + hands prevail? It\u2019s going to be so fun finding out.<\/p>\n

And here they come to a big cheer from the crowd<\/strong>, not that it\u2019s quite as warm as the red-hot weather, with the current temp around 33C, and not that Gauff can properly hear it either, because she\u2019s got her headphones \u2013 and game face \u2013 on.<\/p>\n

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Updates from Thursday\u2019s semi-final action in SW19 Wimbledon Q&A with Tumaini Carayol | Mail Katy Gauff does hold a 6-1 lead in their head-to-head, by the way, but I\u2019m not sure we can read too much into that, as none of those matches were on grass. Gauff, arguably the best competitor in the women\u2019s game, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}