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border-mobile-caption px-3 lg:border-caption\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"my-1.5 break-words !text-xs !text-content\">\n                                Linda Noskova with inset of Wimbledon celebration with her father                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\"><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>The image of Linda Noskova\u2019s father Drahos Nosek with a shirt drenched from the heat, spreading his arms wide to celebrate his daughter\u2019s Wimbledon title will be etched into memory forever.<\/p>\n<p>That was the celebration of a man who knows just how much the family went through as they started from humble beginnings before Noskova reached the top in tennis.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Linda has become the latest Czech sensation after she beat compatriot Karolina Muchova in the final at the All England Club to win her maiden Grand Slam trophy.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow href=\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/facts-stats\/linda-noskova-karolina-muchovas-prize-money-ranking-points-wimbledon-final\" target=\"_blank\">Noskova earned a cheque of \u00a33,600,000 ($4,830,756)<\/a> to take her prize money for the 2026 season to $6,188,432 while she has taken her career earnings to $10,749,051.<\/p>\n<p>Money, of course, was the last thing on Noskova\u2019s or her father\u2019s mind when she was competing in the final, but the family has come a long way from their humble beginnings.<\/p>\n<h2>Linda Noskova News<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/what-martina-navratilova-told-linda-noskova-after-she-won-wimbledon\">Linda Noskova and Martina Navratilova share hilarious moment after Wimbledon win<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/linda-noskova-czech-stars-story-touching-words-mother-ivana-noskova-before-passing-away\">Linda Noskova: Czech star\u2019s story in the touching words of her mother Ivana Noskova before passing away<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/isport.blesk.cz\/clanek\/tenis-wimbledon\/477614\/milacku-s-tebou-koncim-tata-noskove-o-zivote-v-chudobe-jak-ho-dcera-levackou-porazila-6-0.html\" target=\"_blank\">Czech Republic\u2019s iSport<\/a>, Drahos revealed: \u201cJesus, that\u2019s a story for a book. From absolutely zero to a hundred. We started out with basically nothing to eat and nowhere to live.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife and I had both just gotten divorced from our previous marriages; we left all our possessions to our exes and started over. When Linda was born, I was three thousand in the red every month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife had nothing; I worked as a train dispatcher and had to collect scrap metal just to keep us alive. Things didn\u2019t improve until my parents passed away; the little house was sold, and I paid off the debts. That\u2019s when we were finally able to buy at least a car and get by somehow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil then, as a train dispatcher, I at least had free train rides. So we\u2019d take the train to Prague, and all four of us would sleep at the station for five hundred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember that back then, a police officer\u2019s daughter was performing, and then our Linda. Everyone else had rich dads who paid for it, and moms who travelled with them. What the two of us did\u2026 It was awful \u2013 we really hit rock bottom to make it possible for her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noskova turned professional in 2019 and by 2022 she climbed into the top 100 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/wta-tour\/wta-rankings-sabalenka-survives-again-swiatek-5-muchova-noskova-eala-crack-new-highs\">WTA Rankings<\/a> and she made her Grand Slam breakthrough at the 2024 Australian Open when she reached the quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p>The family suffered an unimaginable loss in July 2024 as Noskova\u2019s mother, Ivana Noskova, passed away from cancer on the eve of Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>But two years later, there was a happy ending at SW19 as Noskova won the title and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/linda-noskova-speaks-after-winning-the-wimbledon-title\">she paid tribute to her mother<\/a> during the trophy presentation ceremony, saying: \u201cThere is also one more person I would like to thank, which is my mum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI definitely would not be standing here without her, so thank you. You guys, I don\u2019t cry normally. This is not okay for me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Drahos wished his wife was there to witness their daughter\u2019s crowning moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife and I gave it our all. For us parents, it was five or six years of giving Linda our all,\u201d he said. \u201cIt gives me chills when I think about it, because my wife gave it her all. And I\u2019m so sorry she\u2019s not here with us anymore. But that\u2019s how it goes sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for his daughter, Drahos describes her as an introvert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA classic introvert. I can\u2019t really see into her soul either, but she\u2019s an incredibly kind and clever girl. She likes all kinds of sports. When we lived alone, we were fooling around and she would spend three hours shovelling snow from the dam so we could skate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for Linda changing after winning Wimbledon, her father is confident she\u2019s \u201cgot it all together in her head\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019ll handle it. She\u2019s not the type who would immediately think she\u2019s a world champion,\u201d he said. \u201cShe\u2019s got it all together in her head. She\u2019s planning another big non-tennis event in the fall. Maybe she wants to jump off a tower, help in Africa or something\u2026 I like that, she has a great perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Noskova\u2019s father on tough road: \u2018We started with nothing to eat and nowhere to live\u2019 Shahida Jacobs 15 Jul 2026 11:45 AM Linda Noskova with inset of Wimbledon celebration with her father The image of Linda Noskova\u2019s father Drahos Nosek with a shirt drenched from the heat, spreading his arms wide to celebrate his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-2044365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2044365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2044365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2044365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2044365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}