Toronto’s Victoria Mboko is one among simply two Canadians remaining within the girls’s singles bracket on the Nationwide Financial institution Open introduced by Rogers.
In Tuesday evening’s match, 18-year-old Mboko defeated Twenty third-seeded American Sofia Kenin 6-2, 6-3 in 80 minutes. Kenin had acquired a bye into the second spherical based mostly on her rating.
Mboko now advances to the third spherical, the place she is going to face Marie Bouzkova of Czechia on Thursday. Earlier Tuesday, Bouzkova eradicated 14th-seeded Russian Diana Shnaider 6-2, 7-6.
“Thanks to everybody who got here to assist me — merci beaucoup,” mentioned Mboko to the Montreal crowd post-match. “It was a very powerful battle taking part in actually late at evening, it is a very new expertise for me. However I am so comfortable to get the win at the moment and to be right here to have fun it with everybody right here as properly.”
Mboko, at present ranked No. 88 on this planet, was one among seven Canadians awarded a wild card into the WTA 1000 major draw.
She has loved a meteoric stand up the WTA rankings in 2025, having began the season because the 350th-ranked participant on this planet.
Tuesday evening’s win marked her fifth top-50 victory of the yr and made her the youngest Canadian to defeat a Grand Slam champion in girls’s singles on the Nationwide Financial institution Open.
The one different Canadian girl remaining within the singles bracket is Eugenie Bouchard, who prolonged her profession with a first-round win over Colombia’s Emiliana Arango on Monday evening.
Leylah Fernandez and Rebecca Marino have been eradicated with losses on Tuesday, whereas Bianca Andreescu withdrew after her first-round victory over Barbora Krejcikova of Czechia as a result of an ankle harm.
— with recordsdata from The Canadian Press
