Canada’s Victoria Mboko defeated Czechia’s Marie Bouzkova 7-5, 6-2 in opening-round women’s singles tennis action at the Qatar Open on Sunday.<\/p>\n
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
Mboko, the No. 10 seed at the tournament, also won 64 per cent of her first-serve points.<\/p>\n
In other singles action, Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., fell 6-4, 6-3 to Ann Li of the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fernandez had four aces to two double faults but failed to break on her lone chance in the match.<\/p>\n
In women’s doubles, Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Brazil’s Luisa Stefani, the tournament’s fifth-seeded duo, topped Russia’s Irina Khromacheva and Indonesia’s Aldila Sutjiadi 7-5, 6-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada’s Victoria Mboko defeated Czechia’s Marie Bouzkova 7-5, 6-2 in opening-round women’s singles tennis action at the Qatar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-463283","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\/463283","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=463283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}