{"id":684952,"date":"2026-05-21T21:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/684952\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T21:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:24:08","slug":"mboko-defeats-fellow-canadian-fernandez-in-french-open-tune-up-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/684952\/","title":{"rendered":"Mboko defeats fellow Canadian Fernandez in French Open tune-up tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">STRASBOURG \u2014 Top seed Victoria Mboko cruised to a 6-4, 6-4 win over fellow Canadian Leylah Fernandez in quarterfinal action Thursday at the Strasbourg International tennis tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 19-year-old Mboko, from Burlington, Ont., rode a strong return game to the straight-sets win over the seventh-seeded opponent from Laval, Que.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fernandez, 24, won just 52.8 per cent of total service points and faced 11 break points, saving seven of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mboko was good on 82 per cent of first-serve points and was broken twice on three chances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mboko improved to 2-0 over Fernandez. She won their first meeting at last year\u2019s Hong Kong Open semifinals en route to claiming her second WTA title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The rising star will next face Romania\u2019s Jaqueline Cristian in Friday\u2019s semifinals at the WTA 500 clay-court tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both Mboko and Fernandez are seeded in the French Open women\u2019s draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mboko, the ninth seed at Roland Garros, will face Czechia\u2019s Nikola Bartunkova on Sunday, and Fernandez, seeded 24th, takes on Alycia Parks of the United States on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 21, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STRASBOURG \u2014 Top seed Victoria Mboko cruised to a 6-4, 6-4 win over fellow Canadian Leylah Fernandez in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-684952","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\/684952","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=684952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}