Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko’s breakthrough 2025 season has hit another milestone on home soil in Montreal. The 18-year-old defeated Czech Marie Bouzkova on Thursday night at the Omnium Banque Nationale 1-6, 6-3, 6-0 to reach the fourth round of a WTA 1000 event for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Montreal:\u00a0Draws<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Scores<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Order of play<\/a><\/p>\n Mboko, who this time last year was ranked outside the Top 300 in the PIF WTA Rankings, won eight straight games to snap the seven-match winning streak of Bouzkova, who won the LiveSport Prague Open last week.<\/p>\n World No. 35 Bouzkova appeared to be hampered physically after the pair split sets, receiving treatment on her right quad — and Mboko took full advantage. The wild card dropped just eight points in the final set to win a match from a set down for the first time at Hologic WTA Tour level.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I’m grateful for each and every one of you. This is so amazing and it’s such an amazing experience to be able to celebrate together … I don’t even know what to say,” a breathless Mboko told the crowd after becoming the youngest Canadian to reach the Round of 16 at her country’s signature tournament since Helen Kelesi in 1988.<\/p>\n 2: In just her TK career WTA main-draw, Mboko has matched her best result by reaching the Round of 16. She previously did that just last week at the WTA 500 in Washington, D.C.\u00a0<\/p>\n 5: Mboko is the fifth 18-year-old to reach the Round of 16 in Canada in the last 10 years, joining Belinda Bencic, Catherine Cartan Bellis, Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff — the latter of whom is her next opponent.<\/p>\n 7: In all, Mboko broke Bouzkova’s serve seven times — and six times in her last eight service games.<\/p>\n 23: Mboko is now a staggering 23-8 against players ranked above this season — part of a 49-9 win-loss record at all levels to date.<\/p>\n 32: Mboko doubled Bouzkova’s total of winners in the match, hitting 32 to 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n Despite her short history on tour, Mboko will now face Gauff for a second time. Earlier this year in Rome, the Canadian captured the first set against Gauff in the first round before the American rallied for a 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 win.<\/p>\n Gauff was impressed by Mboko in that match — and reaffirmed that belief in Montreal.<\/p>\n “She’s definitely playing like one of the top players in the world right now, “Gauff said after her own comeback win against Veronika Kudermetova. “Her ranking will definitely match that soon.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko’s breakthrough 2025 season has hit another milestone on home soil in Montreal. The 18-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428,1959],"class_list":{"0":"post-51554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51554","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=51554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}