Félix Auger-Aliassime and Victoria Mboko have picked up the place they left off to open the 2026 tennis season.
Auger-Aliassime and Mboko led Canada previous China within the United Cup blended groups occasion Sunday, successful the Group B round-robin tie 3-0.
The boys’s No. 5-ranked Auger-Aliassime outplayed Zhang Zhizhen 6-4, 6-4 after Mboko — 18th within the ladies’s rankings — rallied from one set right down to beat Lin Zhu 2-6, 6-2, 6-0.
The 2 Canadians then partnered in a 6-1, 6-3 blended doubles win over Xiaodi You and Rigele Te.
Auger-Aliassime reached the U.S. Open semifinal and captured an ATP 250 title on the BNP Paribas Fortis European Open in Brussels, then reached the ATP Finals semifinals to finish final season.
The 25-year-old from Montreal received his season-opening match for the primary time since 2021.
“I may be very happy with this primary match of the 12 months,” mentioned Auger-Aliassime. “Tennis is about rhythm, enjoying necessary factors beneath strain, so that you by no means know what to anticipate. I awakened this morning hoping for one of the best, after which I performed a few of my greatest tennis.”
The 19-year-old Mboko, in the meantime, rose from outdoors the highest 300 to turn into a top-20 participant in a breakthrough previous season.
She received the WTA 1000 Nationwide Financial institution Open in Montreal and completed 2025 on a five-match successful streak to say the Hong Kong Open title.
Canada subsequent performs Belgium in group play on Tuesday within the United Cup. The match finishes Jan. 11.
