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title: "Muchova edges Gauff in a Wimbledon semifinal thriller"
description: "Karolina Muchova reached her first Wimbledon final on Thursday, outlasting the American Coco Gauff 6-2, 1-6, 7-6(10) in a taut semifinal that turned on a final-set tiebreaker, where Gauff let a match point slip away."
category: "Sports"
category_url: https://herald.la/category/sports
author: "Lucía Fuentes"
published: 2026-07-09T16:52:00.000Z
updated: 2026-07-09T16:52:00.000Z
canonical: https://herald.la/article/muchova-edges-gauff-in-a-wimbledon-semifinal-thriller
tags: ["wimbledon", "tennis", "coco-gauff", "karolina-muchova"]
---
# Muchova edges Gauff in a Wimbledon semifinal thriller

Karolina Muchova reached her first Wimbledon final on Thursday, outlasting the American Coco Gauff 6-2, 1-6, 7-6(10) in a taut semifinal that turned on a final-set tiebreaker, where Gauff let a match point slip away.

Coco Gauff's best run at Wimbledon ended one match short of the final, and by the slimmest of margins. Karolina Muchova beat her 6-2, 1-6, 7-6(10) on Thursday to reach the final, in a semifinal that came down to a nerve-shredding tiebreaker, [ESPN reported](https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/49315220/muchova-ends-gauff-run-wimbledon-semifinals).

## Three sets, two swings

The match swung hard between the two players. Muchova took the opening set 6-2, only for Gauff to surge back and level it, winning the second 6-1. The decider stayed on serve and tightened until it reached a first-to-10 tiebreaker, the kind of finish that leaves both players a point or two from victory again and again.

"You're up and down in 10 seconds. You have a match point, then match point down," Muchova said afterward of the tiebreaker's swings, according to [ESPN](https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/49315220/muchova-ends-gauff-run-wimbledon-semifinals).

## The point that got away

Gauff had her chance. She held a match point in the tiebreaker but netted a forehand she would have wanted back, and Muchova pounced, converting her own chance to close it out, [ESPN reported](https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/49315220/muchova-ends-gauff-run-wimbledon-semifinals). For Gauff, already a Grand Slam champion elsewhere, it was still a career-best result at the All England Club, where she had never before gone past the fourth round; that it ended this way made it sting all the more.

## Muchova's moment

For Muchova, it is a return to the biggest stage. She reached the French Open final in 2023, and now, on the back of a strong grass-court run, she has a Wimbledon final to play, [ESPN reported](https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/49315220/muchova-ends-gauff-run-wimbledon-semifinals). Her opponent will come from the other semifinal. Whoever it is, Muchova arrives having shown, over three tense sets, the composure to win the points that matter most.