Canadian teen Victoria Mboko caps dream run in Montreal with first WTA Tour title | Tennis
Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko finished a dream race on Thursday evening for the National Bank Open, overcoming a slow start to beat the Japanese star Naomi Osaka 2-6, 6-4, 6-1.
Mboko, 185th in the world, was ranked 85th in the world – won its first WTA tour and joined Faye Urban in 1969 and Bianca Andreescu in 2019 as the only Canadians to win the event at home in the open era.
Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Congolese parents, Mboko grew up in Toronto. She upset Coco Gauff 6-1, 6-4 seeded, 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals.
Osaka, the quadruple champion of the Grand Slam that reached No. 1 in the world, has experienced his best performance in a WTA 1000 tournament since he also reached the Miami final in 2022. She moved away for 15 months towards the end of this season and had her daughter Shai in July 2023. She is useless since the Australian Open 2021.
