{"id":462560,"date":"2026-02-08T22:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/462560\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T22:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:27:06","slug":"canadas-victoria-mboko-wins-opening-round-match-in-straight-sets-at-qatar-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/462560\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Victoria Mboko wins opening-round match in straight sets at Qatar Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DOHA \u2014 Canada\u2019s Victoria Mboko defeated Czechia\u2019s Marie Bouzkova 7-5, 6-2 in opening-round women\u2019s singles tennis action at the Qatar Open on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 19-year-old from Toronto broke on six of her 11 opportunities while going without an ace and having six double faults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mboko, the No. 10 seed at the tournament, also won 64 per cent of her first-serve points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In other singles action, Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., fell 6-4, 6-3 to Ann Li of the United States. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez had four aces to two double faults but failed to break on her lone chance in the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In women\u2019s doubles, Ottawa\u2019s Gabriela Dabrowski and Brazil\u2019s Luisa Stefani, the tournament\u2019s fifth-seeded duo, topped Russia\u2019s Irina Khromacheva and Indonesia\u2019s Aldila Sutjiadi 7-5, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 8, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DOHA \u2014 Canada\u2019s Victoria Mboko defeated Czechia\u2019s Marie Bouzkova 7-5, 6-2 in opening-round women\u2019s singles tennis action at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-462560","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\/462560","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=462560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}