{"id":45937,"date":"2025-08-05T01:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T01:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/45937\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T01:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T01:46:09","slug":"mbokos-dream-run-continues-18-year-old-reaches-montreal-semis-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/45937\/","title":{"rendered":"Mboko\u2019s Dream Run Continues \u2013 18-Year-Old Reaches Montreal Semis \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Oddo | Monday August 4, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Canadian sensation Victoria Mboko is on her way to becoming a star. Already turning heads at Roland-Garros, where she reached the third round from qualifying, the Canadian continues to impress on her home soil, where she reached the semifinals at the Omnium Banque Nationale with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Jessica Bouzas Maneiro of Spain before a thrilled, partisan crowd on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2023-pro-player-gear-610-150-w-logoNEWBIE.jpg\" alt=\"Tennis Express player gear\" class=\"wp-image-173\"  data-\/><\/a>Tennis Express player gear<\/p>\n<p>Mboko is the fourth youngest woman to reach the last four at the WTA\u2019s 1000 level event in Canada since 2000, and the youngest since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know it\u2019s not over,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m so excited to be in the semifinals here, it\u2019s been unreal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think just to play in front of the Canadian crowd \u2013 I train here and it\u2019s my first time playing in Montreal and it has been an unreal experience and I couldn\u2019t be more grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She will face Elena Rybakina in the semifinals on Wednesday in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Chris Oddo | Monday August 4, 2025 Canadian sensation Victoria Mboko is on her way to becoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-45937","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\/45937","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=45937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}