Defending champion Victoria Mboko will miss next month’s National Bank Open in Toronto, she announced on social media on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“Some tournaments mean a little more than others,” the World No. 10 wrote in an Instagram post. “But the @nbotoronto 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I am sharing this message with you as this is a part of my journey, one that has just started. I will be back\u2026!\u2764\ufe0f”<\/p>\n
In perhaps the biggest surprise of the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz season last year, the then-18-year-old Mboko won the Omnium Banque Nationale, played in Montreal, as a wild card.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mboko, who started 2025 ranked No. 333 in the PIF WTA Rankings, beat four Grand Slam champions — Sofia Kenin, Coco Gauff, Elena Rybakina and Naomi Osaka — en route to the title, the first of her career. Three months later she added a second title, in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
The Canadian has made a trio of finals this year — in Adelaide, Doha and Strasbourg — and in February she made her Top 10 debut.<\/p>\n
Last month at Queen’s Club, a day after winning her opening-round doubles match with Serena Williams, Mboko suffered a left knee injury after slipping on the grass in a match against Karolina Pliskova.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She later revealed that it was an MCL injury, causing her to miss the rest of the grass season. Her absence will now stretch into the Hard-Court Swing.<\/p>\n
“Everything kind of happened so fast,” Mboko said in a Wilson-branded video that accompanied the Instagram post. “There were so many emotions going through my mind. It’s only a little setback, and I want to be a better person out of this.”<\/p>\n
“Toronto was a tournament that I always went to growing up. The National Bank Open also holds a special place in my heart. Knowing that I won’t be able to play this year, it’s very saddening. But I feel like I have so many more years ahead of me to play this tournament.”<\/p>\n
The WTA 1000 National Bank Open Presented by Rogers will begin on August 2 and run through August 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defending champion Victoria Mboko will miss next month’s National Bank Open in Toronto, she announced on social media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105,4277],"class_list":["post-530125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530125","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=530125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}