{"id":103943,"date":"2026-04-28T15:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=103943"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:56:35","slug":"wta-madrid-quarterfinal-predictions-including-marta-kostyuk-vs-linda-noskova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2026\/04\/28\/wta-madrid-quarterfinal-predictions-including-marta-kostyuk-vs-linda-noskova\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA Madrid Quarterfinal Predictions Including Marta Kostyuk vs Linda Noskova"},"content":{"rendered":"

The two remaining quarterfinal matches at the WTA Madrid Open will conclude on Wednesday. In-form Marta Kostyuk faces 13th seed Linda Noskova, while a resurgent Karolina Pliskova will face Elena Rybakina’s conqueror Anastasia Potapova. Who will reach the semifinals?<\/p>\n

WTA Madrid Quarterfinal Predictions<\/h2>\n

Karolina Pliskova vs Anastasia Potapova<\/h4>\n

Head-to-head: Pliskova 1-0 Potapova<\/p>\n

Pliskova began the tournament ranked World No. 197 and only accessed the main draw with a protected ranking. The Czech has rolled back the years in Madrid to become the lowest-tracked quarterfinalist in the tournament’s history. And she’s done so with what she does best, thanks to her elite serving and clean baseline hitting.<\/p>\n

Potapova, meanwhile, stunned Elena Rybakina in Monday’s late-night match. Having lost in qualifying to Sinja Kraus, the Austrian has impressed as a lucky loser and produced her finest performance yet in knocking out Rybakina. Potapova saved a set point in the first, which she won in a tiebreak, and then rallied from a break down in the second set to close out the match in straight sets.<\/p>\n

Although the double faults have been piling up, Pliskova’s second serve has been nearly untouchable, with the Czech averaging 69% of points won in her thrilling victory against Elise Mertens and 86% of points won against Solana Sierra. One more win and Pliskova will get near a Top 100 return, and if that second delivery is efficient, Pliskova could well do some serious damage again.<\/p>\n

Prediction: Pliskova in 3<\/em><\/p>\n

Marta Kostyuk vs Linda Noskova<\/h4>\n

Head-to-head: first meeting<\/p>\n

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Kostyuk has emerged<\/a> as one of the most in-form players in the first half of the clay-court swing. Since a third-round defeat to Elena Rybakina in Miami, Kostyuk has won nine matches in a row. She’s 8-0 on clay courts and in that run, she captured her second WTA title in Rouen and earned a dominant Top 10 victory against Jessica Pegula. There are no signs of the wheels slowing down as the Ukrainian easily dispatched Caty McNally 6-2 6-3 to return to the Madrid quarterfinals for the second time.<\/p>\n

Linda Noskova has defied the odds to reach the deep end of the draw. She authored her own Top 10 win over World No. 3 Coco Gauff in the Round of 16. Noskova was a double break down in the final set and then trailed 2-4 in the deciding tiebreak, but still prevailed after two hours and six minutes. It’s back-to-back quarterfinals for the Czech, who began this year’s clay swing with a last-eight finish in Stuttgart.<\/p>\n

This should be a proper test for Kostyuk. Noskova showed some serious nerve and grit in that comeback against Gauff. That said, Kostyuk is riding that clay wave with an unblemished 8-0 record and she has not lost a set in Madrid. Given her imperious form, I think Kostyuk is likely to manage longer rallies with more control and dominate.<\/p>\n

Prediction: Kostyuk in 2<\/em><\/p>\n

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The two remaining quarterfinal matches at the WTA Madrid Open will conclude on Wednesday. In-form Marta Kostyuk faces 13th seed Linda Noskova, while a resurgent Karolina Pliskova will face Elena Rybakina’s conqueror Anastasia Potapova. Who will reach the semifinals? WTA Madrid Quarterfinal Predictions Karolina Pliskova vs Anastasia Potapova Head-to-head: Pliskova 1-0 Potapova Pliskova began the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":103981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":true,"sfio_embed_code":"<\/smartframe-embed>","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,69,1],"tags":[1526,15429,147,15562,17703,17704,42018,2372,15534,2373,2369,15637,15727,2374,4935],"class_list":["post-103943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta","category-predictions","category-uncategorized","tag-anastasia-potapova","tag-anastasia-potapova-predictions","tag-karolina-pliskova","tag-karolina-pliskova-predictions","tag-linda-noskova","tag-linda-noskova-predictions","tag-madrid-open-predictions","tag-marta-kostyuk","tag-marta-kostyuk-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-wta-madrid","tag-wta-madrid-open","tag-wta-picks","tag-wta-predictions"],"modified_by":"Steen Kirby","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103943"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103982,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103943\/revisions\/103982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}