{"id":388180,"date":"2026-01-04T19:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T19:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/388180\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T19:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T19:22:07","slug":"felix-auger-aliassime-victoria-mboko-lead-canada-to-confident-united-cup-win-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/388180\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Auger-Aliassime, Victoria Mboko lead Canada to confident United Cup win | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        United Cup<br \/>\n    Auger-Aliassime, Mboko lead Canada to confident United Cup win<\/p>\n<p>Canada defeats China 3-0<\/p>\n<p>January 04, 2026<\/p>\n<p>TENNIS AUSTRALIA<\/p>\n<p>        Felix Auger-Aliassime defeats Zhang Zhizhen in straight sets on Sunday in Sydney.<br \/>\n        By ATP\/WTA Staff<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/felix-auger-aliassime\/ag37\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a> carried his strong 2025 form into the new season with a commanding tie-clinching victory for Canada against China on Sunday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/scores\/archive\/perth-sydney\/9900\/2026\/results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United Cup<\/a> in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old, at a career-high No. 5 in the PIF ATP Rankings, overpowered Zhang Zhizhen 6-4, 6-4 with an authoritative, big-hitting performance. The win \u2014 his first opening victory of a season since 2021 \u2014 followed an impressive comeback earlier from 19-year-old Victoria Mboko, sealing an unassailable 2-0 lead for Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can be very pleased with this first match of the year,\u201d said Auger-Aliassime. \u201cTennis is about rhythm, playing important points under pressure, so you never know what to expect. I woke up this morning hoping for the best, and then I played some of my best tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime and Mboko then ensured a 3-0 sweep by teaming to defeat Xiaodi You and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/rigele-te\/tg30\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rigele Te<\/a> 6-1, 6-3 in the mixed doubles rubber.<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime ended the 2025 season in fine form, highlighted by a semi-final run at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/us-open\/560\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a>, a title at the ATP 250 in Brussels and a last-four finish at the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/scores\/archive\/nitto-atp-finals\/605\/2025\/results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nitto ATP Finals<\/a>. He showed no signs of slowing down as he launched his 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>His serve proved especially decisive against Zhang, as he won 87 per cent (33\/38) points behind his first delivery and saved the only break point he faced to level their Lexus ATP Head2Head series at 1-1.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Moooood in Sydney \ud83d\ude0d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UnitedCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#UnitedCup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xVYwuzsWvC\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/xVYwuzsWvC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/scores\/archive\/perth-sydney\/9900\/2026\/results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United Cup<\/a> (@UnitedCupTennis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UnitedCupTennis\/status\/2007750461751963974?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 4, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Mboko rallied from a set down on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/scores\/archive\/perth-sydney\/9900\/2026\/results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United Cup<\/a> debut to defeat Lin Zhu 2-6, 6-2, 6-0 in 1 hour, 39 minutes. Zhu had won their only previous meeting, but Mboko responded with an emphatic finish.<\/p>\n<p>It was Mboko\u2019s sixth consecutive win on the WTA Tour after she ended 2025 on a five-match winning streak that earned her the second WTA Tour title of her season in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United Cup Auger-Aliassime, Mboko lead Canada to confident United Cup win Canada defeats China 3-0 January 04, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-388180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388180","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=388180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}