{"id":518966,"date":"2026-03-06T21:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518966\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T21:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:30:08","slug":"canadas-mboko-advances-to-third-round-of-indian-wells-tennis-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518966\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Mboko advances to third round of Indian Wells tennis tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIAN WELLS \u2014 Canada&#8217;s Victoria Mboko is on to the third round of the Indian Wells tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old from Toronto defeated Australia&#8217;s Kimberly Birrell 6-4, 7-6 (5) on Friday in second-round women&#8217;s singles tennis action.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Mboko had seven aces to five double faults and broke on five of her seven chances.<\/p>\n<p>The 10th-seeded Mboko also won 69 per cent of first-serve points.<\/p>\n<p>Birrell had two aces to four double faults and converted four of her seven break-point opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>She won just 54 per cent of first-serve points.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 6, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIAN WELLS \u2014 Canada&#8217;s Victoria Mboko is on to the third round of the Indian Wells tournament. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,2671,187919,119225,82,593,17045],"class_list":{"0":"post-518966","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-double-faults","11":"tag-indian-wells","12":"tag-kimberly-birrell","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-victoria-mboko"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518966","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=518966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}