He is no longer an alien to Canadian fans, or a lightweight weight on the tour of the Women’s Tennis Association, Victoria Mboko’s captivating career since the intrepid entry of wild card and the National Bank Open semifinalist continues tonight in Montreal.
Toronto Tennis, 18, a helpless from the NBO who has captured the hearts and attention of the Canadians is around the round in the IGA stadium, plays Elena Rybakina from Kazakh of Elena Rybakina de Kazakh in the central court with the winner who won a bunk in the final of the Singles of tomorrow.
Mboko is only the third wild card player to reach the Canadian semifinals, and the first from the title of Bianca Andreescu in 2019. She is also the youngest woman to reach the semifinals since the victory of Belinda Bencic in Toronto. Mboko began the year at the place of Top 300 and, at the end of the NBO tournament, will be classified among the 50 best according to the WTA Live ranking.
His success in Montreal has reached the expense of the players with the greatest classification. He defeated Kimberly Birrell, No. 23, Sofía Kenin, Marie Bouzkova, in 39th place, and a coconut base of better planted, a match that only lasted 62 minutes.
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Victoria Mboko needed just over an hour to collect the straight victory of the sets over Jessica Bouzas Maneiro.
She bounced in Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 6-4, 6-2 in the quarterfinals on Monday, preparing the stage for tonight’s new challenge.
Rybakina beat Mboko 6-3, 7-5 in the Citi DC Open last month, but much has gone well for the powerful Canadian since that setback.
The other semifinal tonight is between the 16th seed of Clara Tauson in Denmark and Naomi Osaka of Japan.
American confrontation in the male tournament
In the Male Tournament in Toronto on Tuesday, Taylor Fritz and Ben Shelton won in the quarterfinals, establishing the first semifinal All-American in an ATP Masters 1000 tournament in 15 years.
The second sown Fritz beat seed No. 6 Andrey Rublev 6-3, 7-6 (4). He hit 20 Aces, including one that ended the game.
“It was clean,” said Fritz about his performance. “I am happy with everything.”
Shelton, seed No. 4, then beat NO. 9 Alex de Minaur de Australia 6-3, 6-4. The 22 -year -old arrived at the semifinals of an ATP Masters 1000 tournament for the first time.
The confrontation on Wednesday between Fritz and Shelton will be the first time since Andy Roddick beat Mardy Fish in Cincinnati in 2010 that two Americans met at a semifinal ATP Masters 1000.
Fritz won his only previous meeting in 2023 at Indian Wells.
The other semifinal on Wednesday will see Alexander Zverev in Germany, the winner of the 2017 tournament in Montreal, faces the No. 11 Karen Khachanov de Russia. The final is Thursday.
