Marie Bouzkova beats Linda Noskova on Livesport Praga Open Final
Marie Bouzkova is the first double champion of Livesport Prague Open. The birth of Prague followed her triumph of 2022 with her second career title in WTA district on Saturday. In decision makers, she overcame the favorite and high seed Linda Noskova 2-6, 6-1, 6-3, which in turn lost her second final in this country.
Noskova inserted FINALS as a favorite. As expected, the match took place mainly depending on whether it made a forced error or produced a winning blow, or whether Bouzkova It can resist the power of its compatriot’s fire with its excellent protection.
While Noskova faced only one resting point in the opening set and kept all the games in her service, Bouzkova had to fight hard for each service except the opening game.
Bouzkova struck only 33% of its first services and produced the same number of uninhaired errors (15) as Noskova. Even the youngest Czecheke did not show the best possible performance, but she still won the first set without problems and was very strong in all respects.
Noskova was in full control of the match. But at the beginning of the second group, the momentum strangely moved to the other side.
Noskova carried out a double guilt at a resting point and easily set Bouzkova by 3-0. She then broke that loss of running and was able to return to the battle for the set. However, Bouzkova brought out a very good service at both points of rest, raised her superiority to 4-1 and won the next two games against faded Noskova.
Before the decisive set, Noskova left the court for a few minutes, but the pause did not help him. Two consecutive double mistakes sent Bouzkova to a vacation. She withdrew, but then her mistakes saw her lose the service again, for the third time in a row. But she reached the result even then.
The lost service belt was completed by Noskova in the fifth match, and this time, Bouzkova managed to close it. In the next match, Bouzkova defended well, forced Noskova in mistakes and again led by a vacation. And for the first time in the group, she managed to withdraw from Noskova with two games. Favorable czecheke could not close the gap, and it did not reduce the difference.
The two Czech tennis players were fighting for their second title in this duel. Bouzkova both won at Livesport Prague Open, where she also reigned in 2022, and is the first twice champion of the largest local tournament. She improved her latest record to 2-6. It moves nine points in the rankings in 38, but will soon have the points descended on last year’s final in Washington.
Noskova also has a negative record in the final matches. After returning against Bouzkova, she deteriorated her in 1-3 and became the first tennis player since 2015, when Livesport Praga Open was first added to the WTA calendar, not to earn more than one final in this country. It also failed a year ago against Lucky Laser Not hiibin And he received only one title last year in Monterrey, Mexico.
It was the third czecheke final of this WTA tour. In the previous two, Karolina Pliskova defeated Lucie Hradec (2015), and Barbora Krekikova beat Teresa Martincova (2021).
Both Bouzkova and Noskova will now take a flight at night to the Masters event in Montreal, Canada, where the main competition begins on Sunday. Noskova will defend its aforementioned triumph in Mexico before going to the US Open.