Fairy journey of 18 -year -old player in Canada expanded

Mboko is the first player in the opening era to do this, when she defeated Sofia Kenin, Coco Gauff and Elena Rybakina in the second round, fourth round and semi -finals. In the evening match on August 6, Mboko lost the first 1-6 set against the seed No. 9 Rybakina, but still won 7-5, 7-6 at the following two sets, despite the wrist injury after a fall.

The victory of Mboko becomes even more sweet when she twice escaped in the decision set, preventing Rybakina from coming to the victory when holding the ball to decide the match. In the tie-break series, she won all three last points when the two players drew 4-4, to go to victory. Guadalajara in 2023 and Anna Kalinskaya in Dubai in 2024.

Mboko is advancing this season, climb from 333 to 85 worlds before Canada expanded, and will be in the top 40 when the update transcript next week. She won 22 consecutive matches in the first season, mainly in Challenger, and won 4 ITF titles. Mboko expanded Canada thanks to its speciality. Mboko is the third player to the final with this capacity, after Monica Seles in 1995 and Simona Halep in 2015.

in the final, Mboko continues to face another Grand Slam champion - Naomi Osaka. The 27 -year -old player, who won four Major, lost a set from the beginning of the tournament. Osaka has just lowered the phenomenon of Clara Tauson in the semi-finals with a score of 6-2, 7-6, promising to be the most difficult opponent of Mboko during the journey at Montreal.

Mboko with parents are the chDC Congo. She launched Grand Slam in Roland Garros this year, with two wins against Lulu Sun and Eva Lys, before losing the Gold Gold Medal of 2024 Zheng Qinwen in the third round. In 2025, Mboko won 50 of 59 matches at all levels in just over seven months.