{"id":193547,"date":"2025-10-06T17:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/193547\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T17:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T17:55:08","slug":"mboko-eliminated-in-first-round-of-wuhan-open-after-straight-sets-loss-to-alexandrova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/193547\/","title":{"rendered":"Mboko eliminated in first round of Wuhan Open after straight-sets loss to Alexandrova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WUHAN \u2014 Canada\u2019s Victoria Mboko is out of the Wuhan Open tennis tournament after a 6-3, 6-2 loss to Russia\u2019s Ekaterina Alexandrova on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alexandrova, the eighth seed in Wuhan, broke Mboko four times on eight chances and won 56 per cent of total points in wrapping up the match in one hour 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mboko, ranked No. 24 in the world, has now lost three straight matches after winning her first career WTA title at the 1000-series National Bank Open in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Her season record fell to 53-12. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 19-year-old from Toronto started the year on a 22-match unbeaten streak in the lower-tier ITF circuit before successfully making the jump to the top tier of women\u2019s tennis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., faces No. 11 Naomi Osaka of Japan in first-round action at the WTA 1000 tournament Tuesday morning (Monday night ET).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 6, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WUHAN \u2014 Canada\u2019s Victoria Mboko is out of the Wuhan Open tennis tournament after a 6-3, 6-2 loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-193547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}