{"id":532501,"date":"2026-03-12T23:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/532501\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T23:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:57:07","slug":"canadas-mboko-out-of-indian-wells-after-quarterfinal-loss-to-sabalenka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/532501\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Mboko out of Indian Wells after quarterfinal loss to Sabalenka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">INDIAN WELLS \u2014 Canada\u2019s Victoria Mboko was eliminated from the BNP Paribas Open on Thursday following a 7-6 (0), 6-4 quarterfinal loss to world No. 1 Aryna Sabalanka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sabalenka scored the only break of the match in the second set and defended all five break points she faced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was the second meeting of the season between Sabalenka and Mboko, a rising star from Burlington, Ont., who was seeded 10th at the WTA 1000 event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Belarusian star beat Mboko in straight sets in the fourth round of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mboko, 19, made her second straight WTA 1000 quarterfinal appearance after reaching the final of an event last month in Doha, Qatar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She has a 16-5 record so far this season.\u2028<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 12, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIAN WELLS \u2014 Canada\u2019s Victoria Mboko was eliminated from the BNP Paribas Open on Thursday following a 7-6&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-532501","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\/532501","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=532501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}