Linda Noskova says she has been dealing with online threats from angry gamblers since the age of 13 but remains undeterred by them.

The Czech recently shot into the limelight after beating compatriot Karolina Muchova to win her first major title at Wimbledon aged 21. She is currently ranked seventh in the world and has won two titles this season. Her other triumph was also on grass at the Bad Homburg Open in Germany.

Like many of her peers, Noskova has dealt with online abuse since she was a teenager. As a junior, she was ranked in the world’s top five and won the French Open girls title in 2021. She made her major debut on the professional Tour a year later.

“After losing matches, it’s absolutely automatic on social media now,” Noskova said of online abuse on the Livesport Daily Podcast.

“Unfortunately, these days are tough in this regard, but for gamblers it’s extremely easy to just grab a phone, create an anonymous account, and write to us.”

Female tennis players received around 12,000 abusive posts and messages on social media during 2025, according to data from Signify Group’s threat matrix service. The matrix uses a combination of AI and human analysis to analyse data on X, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook. The service was launched in 2024 and covers those playing on both the WTA Tour and ITF World Tennis Tour.

Whilst progress has been made to tackle the issue, Noskova admits that it is nearly impossible to completely stamp out due to the nature of how social media works.

“Luckily, it doesn’t affect me, because I know that these same people, if they met me on the street, would never say it to my face,” she said.

“I’ve been getting messages like this since I was 13, and unfortunately organisations like the WTA can’t really do much about it.

“I know they’re trying to fight it, but you can’t stop this. Today, it’s really part of tennis.”

Noskova spoke about a wide range of topics with Livesport besides social media. One of those was about compatriot Marketa Vondrousova, who is serving a four-year ban for refusing to take an anti-doping test. The former Wimbledon champion, who has the right to appeal her ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, received public backing from players such as Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula.

“I supported her privately, I wrote to her as soon as everything came out around her, because it felt right. I told her what I personally thought about it. If I had made some public gesture, it probably wouldn’t have changed much anyway,” Noskova commented.

“I believe that for fans it would be nice if I supported her at Wimbledon or on social media, but for me, it’s always been much more important that if I have something like that in my heart, I tell the person directly.”

It has not been publicly disclosed if Vondrousova is appealing the ban.

Noskova is set to return to action next week at the Canadian Open in Toronto.