{"id":552567,"date":"2026-03-22T04:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/552567\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T04:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:52:15","slug":"mboko-earns-another-straight-sets-victory-at-miami-open-tennis-tournament-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/552567\/","title":{"rendered":"Mboko earns another straight-sets victory at Miami Open tennis tournament \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI \u2013 Canada\u2019s Victoria Mboko is off to the third round of women\u2019s singles at the Miami Open.<\/p>\n

Mboko, the No. 10 seed from Burlington, Ont., defeated Russian Anastasia Zakharova 6-1, 7-5 on Saturday. On Friday, Mboko, who won the National Bank Open in Montreal last year, needed only 59 minutes to register 6-2, 6-0 victory over Russia\u2019s Anna Blinkova.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Mboko had four aces with five double-faults. However, she converted on three-of-six break opportunities.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVictoria Mboko, of Canada, reacts after losing a point against Aryna Sabalenka, of Belarus, during a quarterfinal match at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament, Thursday, March 12, 2026, in Indian Wells, Calif. (AP Photo\/Mark J. Terrill)<\/p>\n

In a first-round match, Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., the 26th seed, defeated Oksana Selekhmeteva of Russia 7-6 (1), 3-6, 6-1.<\/p>\n

And in men\u2019s action, Montreal\u2019s Felix Auger-Aliassime, the seventh seed, dispatched Hungary\u2019s Marton Fucsovics 7-6 (3), 7-5. The Canadian, who had a first-round bye, fired six aces while committing just one double fault while Fucsovics had six to go with four aces.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Diallo of Montreal was bounced by France\u2019s Ugo Humbert 6-1, 6-4 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

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Humbert, the 31st seed, had three aces, 21 winners and one double fault in the 69-minute match, while the Canadian had four aces, 12 winners, two double faults and 22 unforced errors.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 21, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2013 Canada\u2019s Victoria Mboko is off to the third round of women\u2019s singles at the Miami Open.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-552567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552567","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=552567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}