Wimbledon champion ‘had enough’ of trophy and reveals humble location it’s kept | Tennis | Sport

It’s only been three weeks since Linda Noskova won her maiden Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, and she’s already “had enough” of her trophy. The world No. 7 claimed the stunning Venus Rosewater Dish with a hard-fought 6-2 5-7 6-3 victory over countrywoman Karolina Muchova.

Noskova was cruising to victory when she led 5-2 in the second set and had multiple championship points, but Muchova mounted an incredible fightback to force a decider. Still, the 21-year-old got the job done to claim the biggest title of her career.

While the Wimbledon trophies stay at the All England Club, all champions get a replica, and Noskova took hers back home. But she had no qualms about parting ways with her silverware to head to the Canadian Open – her first tournament since becoming a Grand Slam champion – and revealed where she had left it.

“I love my trophy, but I’ve had enough of it for some time now. It’s in my living room, yeah, it’s on the display. I’m looking at it whenever I can, so it’s there,” the world No. 7 said.

Both Noskova and Muchova met the president of Czechia after returning home from Wimbledon last month, with the newly-crowned champion bringing her Venus Rosewater Dish replica.

Reflecting on her whirlwind three weeks since becoming a Wimbledon winner, the 21-year-old added: “I did do a lot of things that I had to do, media-wise, especially in Czech Republic. There was a lot of just running around doing the media.

“But for me, I definitely had to find some time to kind of find my vacation as well. I did spend a few days in Italy, which was nice. I did see my family. So it was kind of a mix of all the crazy things with all the chill things.”

It took a while for the Wimbledon triumph to sink in for Noskova, but she’s already looking ahead, explaining that her victory was just the start, not the pinnacle. “It’s something that I have always worked for, that I have played my tennis my whole life for. It did take me, I would say like a week, maybe 10 days, to actually realise it. Maybe I will not realise it a hundred per cent, you know?” she said.

“It’s always just one of those big things that actually happen and you’re not, you know, preparing yourself for that, it’s kind of like a big shocker. But you have to restart and keep going, it’s not the end of the world.

“I had to tell myself that, like I said, it is not the end of the world. My career is not ending here, it is hopefully only starting. Winning a Grand Slam is, you know, an unreal thing. But at the same time, I’m still 21, I feel like since I accomplished this so soon, I feel like it’s even a bigger motivation for me to keep going.”