{"id":355335,"date":"2025-12-18T04:22:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/355335\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T04:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:22:29","slug":"canadian-tennis-star-mboko-named-wta-newcomer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/355335\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian tennis star Mboko named WTA Newcomer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canadian tennis star Victoria Mboko has been named the WTA\u2019s Newcomer of the Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The professional women\u2019s tennis tour announced its year-end award recipients on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 19-year-old Mboko, from Toronto, raised her ranking from outside the top 300 to inside the top 20 after an impressive 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The highlight of her breakout season came in August when she won the WTA 1000 National Bank Open in Montreal. She defeated four Grand Slam singles champions, including four-time major winner Naomi Osaka in the final, en route to her first title on tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She also won a WTA title in Hong Kong in November, claimed four consecutive ITF World Tennis Tour titles early in the year and advanced to the third round at the French Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She was named one of the International Tennis Federation\u2019s five future stars last week, and was recently hosted by Prime Minister Mark Carney at his office on Parliament Hill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mboko is the fourth Canadian to win the award, following Carling Bassett (1983), Eugenie Bouchard (2013) and Bianca Andreescu (2019).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 15, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian tennis star Victoria Mboko has been named the WTA\u2019s Newcomer of the Year. The professional women\u2019s tennis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-355335","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\/355335","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=355335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}