{"id":20102,"date":"2025-07-24T08:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T08:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/20102\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T08:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T08:45:08","slug":"canadas-mboko-ousted-in-second-round-of-citi-open-with-loss-to-rybakina-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/20102\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Mboko ousted in second round of Citi Open with loss to Rybakina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Canada&#8217;s Victoria Mboko fell 6-3, 7-5 to Kazakhstan&#8217;s Elena Rybakina in second-round action at the Citi Open tennis tournament on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mboko fired three aces but committed nine double faults in the one-hour, 25-minute match.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old from Toronto also broke on two of her three chances.<\/p>\n<p>Mboko was ahead 5-4 in the second set, looking to extend the match to a third set, but surrendered the final three games.<\/p>\n<p>Rybakina, the third seed in the tournament, also had three aces but just one double fault.<\/p>\n<p>She broke on four of her nine opportunities in the win.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 23, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Canada&#8217;s Victoria Mboko fell 6-3, 7-5 to Kazakhstan&#8217;s Elena Rybakina in second-round action at the Citi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,17044,2671,10459,44,17045],"class_list":{"0":"post-20102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-citi-open-tennis-tournament","11":"tag-double-faults","12":"tag-elena-rybakina","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-victoria-mboko"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20102","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=20102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}