Nationwide Financial institution Open champion Victoria Mboko was named ladies’s participant of the 12 months by Tennis Canada on Tuesday, whereas Felix Auger-Aliassime took the lads’s participant of the 12 months honour.
Mboko, from Burlington, Ont., posted a 62-14 report throughout all competitions this 12 months. She rocketed from No. 350 on this planet rankings at first of the season to her present No. 18 place.
Mboko’s first profession WTA Tour title got here final summer time as a wild-card entry in Montreal. She beat massive names like Sofia Kenin, Coco Gauff and Elena Rybakina en path to the ultimate of the WTA 1000 match, the place she upset former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka.
The 19-year-old Canadian, who capped her breakout season with a title in Hong Kong final month, was additionally named ladies’s singles participant of the 12 months and girls’s most improved participant of the 12 months.
Auger-Aliassime, 25, was additionally chosen as males’s singles participant of the 12 months after incomes three ATP Tour titles and shifting to a career-high No. 5 on this planet rankings.
“What a season this has been for Canadian tennis, one that may undoubtedly be remembered for a few years to come back,” Tennis Canada chief govt officer Gavin Ziv stated in a press release.
Auger-Aliassime, from Montreal, received ATP 250 titles in Brussels, Montpellier and Adelaide. He reached the ultimate 4 on the season-ending ATP Finals and have become the primary Canadian to report a number of 50-win seasons (50-24).
Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski received the ladies’s doubles participant of the 12 months award, and Calgary’s Cleeve Harper took the lads’s doubles participant of the 12 months honour.
Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo was named most improved males’s participant, and Thomas Venos of New Westminster, B.C., was named wheelchair participant of the 12 months.
