{"id":258067,"date":"2025-11-02T18:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/258067\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T18:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:22:12","slug":"canadian-teen-victoria-mboko-captures-hong-kong-open-for-2nd-wta-title-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/258067\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian teen Victoria Mboko captures Hong Kong Open for 2nd WTA title of season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victoria Mboko defeated Spain’s Cristina Bucsa 7-5, 6-7 (9), 6-2 to win the Hong Kong Open on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old from Toronto fired nine aces and earned her second WTA title of the season after lifting the National Bank Open trophy in Montreal in August.<\/p>\n

Mboko improved to 2-0 against Bucsa, having beaten her in straight sets earlier this year in Rome qualifying.<\/p>\n

“I will admit it was a little bit painful [to lose the second set] but that’s tennis for you,” Mboko said after the match. “It happens. [Championship point] was just another point. Of course, there’s a lot more emphasis on it, because it’s a championship point, but she was also playing some great tennis. She came out hitting some great shots, which was out of my control. It happens.<\/p>\n

“The best thing you can do is just regroup. If I was to dwell on it too much, it would’ve affected me too much to play well in the third set, so I’m glad I was able to let it go.” <\/p>\n

Mboko reached the final with a three-set win over fellow Canadian Leylah Fernandez on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Mboko has been working back to full strength after a wrist injury suffered in Montreal briefly stalled her momentum this summer.<\/p>\n

She’s projected to move into the WTA top 20 when the new rankings are released Monday.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Mboko wins Hong Kong title, beating Spain’s Bucsa for 2nd time:\"\"<\/p>\n

Canada’s Victoria Mboko wins the Hong Kong Open for her 2nd WTA title of the season<\/p>\n

Victoria Mboko of Burlington, Ont., defeated Spain’s Cristina Bucsa 7-5, 6-7(9), 6-2 to win the Hong Kong Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victoria Mboko defeated Spain’s Cristina Bucsa 7-5, 6-7 (9), 6-2 to win the Hong Kong Open on Sunday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-258067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}