After two seasons struggling with injury, Victoria Mboko started to light up with a series of 22 wins (43 consecutive sets) in the ITF System. After that, she passed the qualifying round to reach the Roland Garros third round, then shocked when defeating the No. 25 seed Magdalena Frech right in the first round of Wimbledon.
Coming to Montreal, Mboko continues to create earthquakes. Most notably, the quick victory in only 62 minutes in the fourth round against Coco Gauff – the world's No. 2 player and twice won the Grand Slam. Recently, 18 -year -old player continued to shock when surpassing the seed No. 9 Elena Rybakina.
This match, Mboko was not good. She was caught up in Rybakina's play and was almost helpless. The host country player constantly loses the break and the owner protects a single serve game, thereby losing 1-6.
Despite losing the first set, Mboko quickly rediscovered the style in the second set and pulled the match into the decision set. Here, Rybakina led 5-4 and had the opportunity to serve to end the match. However, Mboko now suddenly emerged, taking advantage of a series of errors from the opponent to save points and equalize.
Set 3 then have to solve the winning with a tie-break series. Mboko led 5-4 after a high-class hand along the class, before Rybakina hit his left hand out. The Canadian player closed the match with the final score of 1-6, 7-5, 7-6 (April 7).
With this result, Mboko has officially won tickets to the final of Canadian Open 2025. This was an impressive leap when the Canadian player started in 2025 in addition to the top 300.
In the final, Mboko will face Naomi Osaka. The former No. 1 in the world then surpassed the seed No. 16 Clara Tauson (Denmark) with a score of 6-2, 7-6 (7) in the semi-final 2.
