{"id":253093,"date":"2026-01-23T06:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/253093\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T06:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:41:08","slug":"mboko-sets-new-milestone-with-progress-to-ao-2026-fourth-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/253093\/","title":{"rendered":"Mboko sets new milestone with progress to AO 2026 fourth round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/players\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Mboko<\/a>\u2019s stunning rise into the upper echelons continues, with the Canadian teenager claiming a 7-6(5) 5-7 6-3 victory over the higher-ranked Clara Tauson to progress to the second week of a Grand Slam for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/results#!All\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MORE: All the scores from AO 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It follows a year in which the 19-year-old has climbed from outside the world\u2019s top 300 to arrive at her current career-high No.16 ranking. After competing in lower-level events in the Caribbean at the same time last year, Mboko is making her Australian Open main-draw debut.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s my first time playing, so I feel like what\u2019s not to enjoy,\u201d Mboko beamed with her new career milestone secured. \u201cYou\u2019re in Australia, it\u2019s warm. It\u2019s not so warm back home [in Canada]. It\u2019s nice to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After straight-sets wins over Australia\u2019s Emerson Jones and USA\u2019s Caty McNally, Mboko showcased impressive composure in her three-set win over 14th-ranked Tauson, who was crowned Australian Open girls\u2019 champion in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victoria Mboko\u2019s stunning rise into the upper echelons continues, with the Canadian teenager claiming a 7-6(5) 5-7 6-3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-253093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}