Elena Rybakina must have figured she had the match won. She’d just battered 18-year-old Victoria Mboko in a 25-shot rally late in their Montreal semifinal, sending her sprinting from corner to corner until Mboko’s desperate lob drifted long. Mboko hunched over in exhaustion afterwards, her racket pressed hard into the ground as a crutch. Losing a miserable point like this, …
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Victoria Mboko’s run through one of the most important competitions in women’s tennis ended where it inevitably — and impossibly — seemed like it might all along. And what a place she chose to do it. On Thursday night in Montreal, in the Canadian Open final, Mboko staged another comeback to rise out of a one-set hole and shake off …
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Editor’s note: This story has been updated during Victoria Mboko’s run to the semifinals of the WTA 1,000 Canadian Open in Montreal. Ripping a backhand past a former Wimbledon quarterfinalist to clinch a first Grand Slam win on the opening day of the French Open is a pretty good way to make tennis fans stand up and take notice. Or …
Read More »MONTREAL (AP) — Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko upset top-seeded Coco Gauff 6-1, 6-4 on Saturday night to reach the National Bank Open quarterfinals. Gauff dropped to 2-3 since winning the French Open. She followed the major victory with opening losses in Berlin and Wimbledon, then overcame double-fault problems to win two three-set matches in Montreal. Gauff had five double-faults Saturday …
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