{"id":412457,"date":"2026-01-16T05:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412457\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:29:07","slug":"canadas-victoria-mboko-advances-to-adelaide-international-womens-tennis-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/412457\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Victoria Mboko advances to Adelaide International women&#8217;s tennis final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ADELAIDE \u2014 Canada\u2019s Victoria Mboko is onto the Adelaide International women\u2019s tennis final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 19-year-old from Toronto defeated Australia\u2019s Kimberley Birrell 6-2, 6-1 in the semifinals on Thursday to advance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mboko fired eight aces and had three double faults in the tune-up tournament ahead of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She also broke on five of her seven chances and won 80 per cent of her first-serve points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Birrell was held without an ace and a break point in the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mboko will next face the winner between Russians Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADELAIDE \u2014 Canada\u2019s Victoria Mboko is onto the Adelaide International women\u2019s tennis final. The 19-year-old from Toronto defeated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-412457","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\/412457","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=412457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}