{"id":532684,"date":"2026-03-11T06:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532684\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:22:11","slug":"tennis-wta-bnp-paribas-open-2026-mboko-downs-anisimova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532684\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis, WTA \u2013 BNP Paribas Open 2026: Mboko downs Anisimova"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian Victoria Mboko, the No 10 seed, defeated American Amanda Anisimova, the No 6 seed, 6-4, 6-1 to reach the quarterfinals of the BNP Paribas Open on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old Canadian required only 73 minutes to dismantle the world No 6 on her tournament debut in the California desert. Mboko dictated the baseline exchanges with a clinical display of power hitting, breaking the American four times to secure her third career WTA 1000 quarterfinal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The teenager improved her 2026 season record to an impressive 16-4.<\/p>\n

Mboko moves into the last eight to face Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the top seed and world No 1. This quarterfinal serves as a highly anticipated rematch after their meeting at the Australian Open, which Sabalenka dominated.<\/p>\n

Unplayable<\/p>\n

The key statistical factor in the match was Mboko\u2019s remarkable efficiency on the return, winning 51% of points against both the first and second deliveries of Anisimova. While the American struggled to find rhythm, Mboko proved impenetrable on her own serve, notably saving the only break point she faced while leading 6-4, 3-1 to extinguish any hope of a comeback.<\/p>\n

The match remained competitive throughout a tight opening set until Mboko secured the decisive break in the seventh game. Although Anisimova attempted to increase her aggression, the Canadian responded by winning four consecutive break points in the 7th, 11th, 15th, and 17th games of the match.<\/p>\n


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After navigating earlier rounds against Anna Kalinskaya and Kimberly Birrell, Mboko dominated the second set 6-1 to finalize the upset.<\/p>\n

Indian Wells 2026, women\u2019s singles fourth round<\/p>\n

Aryna Sabalenka (1)\u00a0\u2013 Naomi Osaka (16) : 6-2, 6-4<\/p>\n

Victoria Mboko (10)\u00a0\u2013 Amanda Anisimova (6) : 6-4, 6-1<\/p>\n

Alexandra Eala (31) \u2013 Linda Noskova (14) :\u00a0night session<\/p>\n

Talia Gibson (Q)\u00a0\u2013 Jasmine Paolini (7) : 7-5, 2-6, 6-1<\/p>\n

Jessica Pegula (5) \u2013 Belinda Bencic (12) : to be played<\/p>\n

Sonay Kartal \u2013 Elena Rybakina (3) : to be played<\/p>\n

Katerina Siniakova \u2013 Elina Svitolina (9) : to be played<\/p>\n

Karolina Muchova (13) \u2013 Iga Swiatek (2) : to be played<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian Victoria Mboko, the No 10 seed, defeated American Amanda Anisimova, the No 6 seed, 6-4, 6-1 to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-532684","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\/532684","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=532684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}