MONTREAL – Young Canadian tennis player Victoria Mboko pulled off a surprising victory by defeating number one, Coco Gauff, with a score of 6-1 and 6-4, securing her place in the quarterfinals of the National Bank Open.
Mboko, 18 years old, expressed his emotion to the public, responding to the chants of support. Gauff, for her part, has had an irregular performance after her victory at the French Open, accumulating a record of 2-3 since then. Gauff, 21 years old, struggled with double faults, totaling five in the match, after having committed 23 in her first match against Danielle Collins and 14 against Veronika Kudermetova. In addition, she committed 24 unforced errors.Your support was incredible. I am very happy to win today… It’s incredible. I am very happy to beat a great champion.
Victoria Mboko
Mboko, currently ranked 85th in the world, achieved victory in 1 hour and 2 minutes. The Canadian tennis player highlighted the energy of the public as a key factor in her triumph.She is playing high-level tennis. I think that’s what was demonstrated today. I think she was the best player.
Coco Gauff
In the quarterfinals, Mboko will face Jessica Bouzas Maneiro of Spain, who defeated Lin Zhu of China in a match interrupted by rain. In a previous encounter in Rome, in May, Gauff had defeated Mboko. The young Canadian tennis player remembered that match and adjusted her strategy for this new encounter.When it was 5-4, the audience started cheering even louder, and everything got very noisy. I used that as fuel for myself and to cheer myself up a bit more. I just used the audience to my advantage as much as I could.
Victoria Mboko
In other results, Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine and Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan advanced to the quarterfinals, setting up an exciting match between them.I was really thinking about that a lot during the match. I had flashbacks of when I played against her in Rome. I just remember when she came out playing even better and raised the level a bit. I wanted to raise my game a bit more and make sure I matched what she was producing, and I wanted to stay right there with her.
Victoria Mboko
