In-form players Linda Nosková and Marta Kostyuk will battle it out in the quarterfinals of the 2026 Madrid Open. The Czech star goes into the match on the back of an impressive win over Coco Gauff. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian is currently on an eight-match winning run.
Linda Nosková vs Marta Kostyuk Match Details
Date: April 29, 2026
Tournament: Madrid Open 2026
Round: Quarterfinals
Venue: La Caja Mágica, Madrid, Spain
Surface: Outdoor Clay
Category: WTA 1000
Live Telecast: Tennis Channel, Sky Sports, TSN
Nosková vs Kostyuk Head-to-Head Record
This will be the first meeting between these two players on the WTA Tour. Nosková goes into the match after claiming a 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (5) win over Gauff in the last round. The 21-year-old found herself up against it in the third set, but turned things around and secured her spot in the quarterfinals.
Nosková is enjoying a strong season, capped by a run to the semifinals at Indian Wells, where she lost to Aryna Sabalenka. She also made the quarterfinals in Stuttgart and has an overall win-loss record of 13-7 in 2026.
Kostyuk is also firing on all cylinders at the moment. She won the Open de Rouen earlier this month and has yet to drop a set in Madrid. The 23-year-old breezed past Yulia Putintseva in the second round, before ending Jessica Pegula’s stellar run with a 6-1, 6-4 win in the third round.
Another comfortable win over Caty McNally helped Kostyuk secure her spot in the Madrid Open quarterfinals for the second year running.
Nosková vs Kostyuk Prediction and Pick
Kostyuk has only lost four matches since the turn of the year, with three of those defeats coming to Elena Rybakina (2) and Sabalenka (1). She also has strong serve numbers, having won 80% of her service games and 73.7% of the points on her first serve.
But Nosková has maintained similarly impressive numbers this year, with a service games win percentage of 80.2%. She has also fired 152 aces this year, with 12 coming across her two matches in Madrid.
Nosková has shown great fighting spirit at the Madrid Open and will take plenty of confidence from her win over Gauff.
This should be a close contest between two players who are playing strong tennis at the moment. Kostyuk’s experience and better overall form will give her the edge in this one as she looks to follow up her win in France with another deep run in Spain. She also has the better return numbers this year, which could be crucial in a match between two players with dominant serves.
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Pick – Kostyuk in three sets.
