{"id":787071,"date":"2026-07-07T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/787071\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:24:09","slug":"mboko-withdraws-from-national-bank-open-due-to-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/787071\/","title":{"rendered":"Mboko withdraws from National Bank Open due to knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Victoria Mboko returns to Katerina Siniakova of during their second-round women’s singles tennis match at the French Open tennis tournament in Paris on May 28.Thibault Camus\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s Victoria Mboko has withdrawn from the National Bank Open due to a knee injury, Tennis Canada said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The 2025 tournament champion was hurt last month in a match against Czechia\u2019s Karolina Pliskova at the HSBC Championships in London. The world No. 10 from Burlington, Ont., said she injured the medial collateral ligament in her left knee and would miss the rest of the grass-court season. <\/p>\n

Now her absence will extend to part of the North American hard court season as well and prevent the 19-year-old from trying to defend the title she won last year in Montreal.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome tournaments mean a little more than others,\u201d Mboko said. \u201cBut the National Bank Open means everything to me. Not being able to play at home this summer in front of the people I love and with the support of the Toronto crowd is deeply disappointing as it has been something I\u2019ve been looking so much forward to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mboko\u2019s knee injury forces withdrawal from Queen\u2019s Club, and ends doubles run with Williams<\/a><\/p>\n

The NBO Toronto event is set for Aug. 2 to 13 at Sobeys Stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wish Vicky the very best with her recovery and hope to see her back on court as soon as possible,\u201d said NBO Toronto tournament director Karl Hale. \u201cIt\u2019s never easy when any player is forced to withdraw due to injury and it\u2019s especially disappointing in Vicky\u2019s case because we were all looking forward to watching her title defence in her hometown of Toronto. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat said, she is still very young, and our fans will have plenty of opportunities to see her play in Canada, and Toronto, over the course of her career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tournament organizers plan to release the 96-player entry list for the singles draw on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Victoria Mboko returns to Katerina Siniakova of during their second-round women’s singles tennis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,82,865,61,593,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-787071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-tennis","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787071","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=787071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}