{"id":54599,"date":"2025-08-08T13:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54599\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T13:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:38:07","slug":"tennis-phenom-thrills-fans-with-huge-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54599\/","title":{"rendered":"TENNIS PHENOM THRILLS FANS WITH HUGE WIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She captivated Canada with a huge win in the National Bank Open final in Montreal Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-401723\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tennis-290x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"195\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Canadian teen Victoria Mboko is a champion.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old from Burlington rallied back through a wrist injury to defeat four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka.<\/p>\n<p>Mboko entered the tournament as a wild card, then posted a total seven wins over higher-ranked opponents, capping a fairy tale run that fans across Canada won\u2019t soon forget.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of last year, Mboko\u2019s ranking was 350 and reached a ranking of 85 late last month.<\/p>\n<p>This win puts her at number 25 in the WTA rankings ensuring her a seeded position for the upcoming Grand Slam in New York later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She captivated Canada with a huge win in the National Bank Open final in Montreal Thursday night. Canadian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-54599","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\/54599","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=54599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}