{"id":51656,"date":"2025-08-08T00:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T00:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/51656\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T00:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T00:39:08","slug":"victoria-mboko-tops-naomi-osaka-in-montreal-for-1st-wta-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/51656\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Mboko tops Naomi Osaka in Montreal for 1st WTA title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &#8212; Canadian teenager <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=11219\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Mboko<\/a> completed a dream run to the National Bank Open title Thursday night, overcoming a slow start to beat Japanese star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2789\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naomi Osaka<\/a> 2-6, 6-4, 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>Mboko, 18, won her first WTA Tour title and joined Faye Urban in 1969 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2979\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bianca Andreescu<\/a> in 2019 as the only Canadians to win the home event in the open era.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, to Congolese parents, Mboko grew up in Toronto. Ranked 85th in the world, she upset top-seeded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3626\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coco Gauff<\/a> 6-1, 6-4 on Saturday to reach the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Osaka, the four-time Grand Slam champion who reached No. 1 in the world, had her best performance in a WTA 1000 tournament since also reaching the Miami final in 2022. She stepped away for 15 months toward the end of that season and had daughter Shai in July 2023. She&#8217;s winless since the 2021 Australian Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL &#8212; Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko completed a dream run to the National Bank Open title Thursday night,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-51656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51656","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=51656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}