Mboko’s coach Natalie Tauziet – herself a pragmatist on the court and former world number three and Wimbledon finalist in the ’90s – has overseen Mboko’s remarkable form after previously guiding her in the junior ranks.<\/p>\n
“I think what is important for her is to see us not panic when something happen. I remember at the beginning of the year, she always told me: ‘Oh, you’re so calm during the match.'”<\/p>\n
“The US Open is the objective – who knows, maybe she can do something good? Here, we are going match by match, and hoping for no injury.”<\/p>\n
Mboko hurt her hand in the semi against Rybakina in a heavy fall in Montreal, but says she doesn’t feel it ahead of the final.<\/p>\n
Another benefit of being young appears to be the ability to bounce off a hard court, alongside the anxiety-free world-view teenage sports stars so often benefit from.<\/p>\n
As former young Canadian star and another Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard said on Canadian TV after Mboko’s win over Coco Gauff: “She was fearless, and she didn’t seem to let the moment affect her that much.<\/p>\n
“Her power and shotmaking were great. She didn’t let Coco do too much, or give her give her any time. Taking it to her with her serve, [Mboko] Handled the moment in such a mature way.”<\/p>\n
Mboko will need that maturity before the final against an experienced player who herself has never gone past the quarters in Canada: “It’s crazy how life works, it’s such a great feeling.”<\/p>\n
“But I didn’t think of lifting trophy up until now. I always try to focus on the present moment \u2013 but it’s obviously a vision I would like to see. And that’s what I’m playing for.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mboko’s coach Natalie Tauziet – herself a pragmatist on the court and former world number three and Wimbledon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-65966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65966","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=65966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}