PARIS — Rising tennis star Victoria Mboko moved a step nearer to qualifying for her first profession Grand Slam essential draw with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Austria’s Sinja Kraus on Tuesday.
The 18-year-old from Toronto fired 5 aces on the clay courts of Roland Garros whereas profitable 79 per cent of first-serve factors to advance to the second spherical of the three-round qualifying match.
Mboko completed the match with a break — her fifth in seven possibilities. She had a break-point probability in six of her 9 return video games.
She’s going to subsequent face Kathinka von Deichmann of Liechtenstein on Thursday. Von Deichmann superior with a 6-1, 6-0 win over seventh seed Rebecca Marino of Vancouver.
Mboko improved her file this season to 38-5, with most of her wins approaching the lower-tier ITF World Tennis Tour circuit.
She is coming off a runner-up efficiency ultimately week’s WTA 125 Parma Girls Open.
Mboko, who entered the match ranked No. 122 on this planet, was the one Canadian to advance in qualifying Tuesday.
Romania’s Patricia Tig downed Kayla Cross of London, Ont., 6-4, 6-2, in one other ladies’s first-round match. In males’s qualifying, Liam Draxl of Newmarket, Ont., fell 6-2, 6-2 to Austria’s Filip Misolic.
Mboko joins seventeenth seed Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., twenty fourth seed Marina Stakusic, additionally of Mississauga, and Carson Branstine, a Californian who represents Canada internationally, within the second spherical of qualifying.
Andreescu faces Japan’s Nao Hibino, Stakusic performs Tamara Korpatsch of Germany and Branstine meets tenth seed Rebeka Masarova of Switzerland on Wednesday.
Additionally Tuesday, prime seeds Gabriela Dabrowski of Ottawa and Erin Routliffe of New Zealand superior to the semifinal of the Internationaux de Strasbourg with a 6-4, 2-6, 10-8 win over Spain’s Cristina Bucsa and Xu Yifan. Dabrowski and Routliffe will subsequent face Luisa Stefani of Brazil and Timea Babos of Hungary on Thursday.
Later Tuesday, sixth-seed Felix Auger-Aliassime of Montreal defeated Germany’s David Altmaier 6-3, 6-3 within the opening spherical of the Hamburg Open.
It is Auger-Aliassime’s first profession win over Altmaier in three matches. He’ll subsequent face Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard of France.
