{"id":353111,"date":"2025-12-17T00:57:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/353111\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T00:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:57:19","slug":"victoria-mboko-named-wta-newcomer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/353111\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Mboko named WTA Newcomer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, and Canadian tennis champion Victoria Mboko are pictured as Carney holds Mboko\u2019s tennis racket used to win the 2025 National Bank Open in Montreal during a meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, earlier this month.Spencer Colby\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Canadian tennis star Victoria Mboko has been named the WTA\u2019s Newcomer of the Year.<\/p>\n

The professional women\u2019s tennis tour announced its year-end award recipients on Monday.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old Mboko, from Toronto, raised her ranking from outside the top 300 to inside the top 20 after an impressive 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n

Victoria Mboko tries to stay grounded as her career takes off<\/a><\/p>\n

The highlight of her breakout season came in August when she won the WTA 1000 National Bank Open in Montreal. She defeated four Grand Slam singles champions, including four-time major winner Naomi Osaka in the final, en route to her first title on tour.<\/p>\n

She also won a WTA title in Hong Kong in November, claimed four consecutive ITF World Tennis Tour titles early in the year and advanced to the third round at the French Open.<\/p>\n

She was named one of the International Tennis Federation\u2019s five future stars last week, and was recently hosted by Prime Minister Mark Carney at his office on Parliament Hill.<\/p>\n

Mboko is the fourth Canadian to win the award, following Carling Bassett (1983), Eugenie Bouchard (2013) and Bianca Andreescu (2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, and Canadian tennis champion Victoria Mboko are pictured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[2428,2416,2429,4,2408,2430,103,2407,2422,2423,2418,2409,2406,101,526,192,2421,2414,2441,2410,2411,2420,2417,149,983,2431,2413,2436,2437,2439,2434,2438,2432,2435,2412,2425,2426,111,2424,2433,99,2415,74,428,2427,2419,194,965,2440],"class_list":["post-353111","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-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\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}