The Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko captured the Canadian Open 2025 in Montreal and defeated the four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka 2-6, 6-4, 6-1. The eighteen -year victory meant its first WTA title and ended a remarkable run.
Along the way MBoko defeated four Grand Slam-Slam-Sofia Kenin, Coco Gauff, Elena Rybakina and Osaka-sailed to the second to achieve this performance in 18 years and 11 months. Serena Williams, who did it at the age of 17 and 11 months at the US Open 1999, remains the youngest.
When he talked about his victory on Thursday, Mboko said, “I still think Naomi is an incredible player and never changes what I think of her.
Starting with a year, he placed outside the TOP 300, MBoko entered the tournament as a surrender coat of arms on No. 85 and now rises to the world no. 25. She is Woman of the second lowest rating that has ever won the WTA 1000 event And only the third Canadian who lifted the trophy in the open era, after Faye Urban (1969) and Bianca Andresco (2019).
Victoria Mboko shifts giant steps
Vmboko was born in 2006 in North Carolina and is the youngest of four children. Her parents, Cyprien Mboko and Gode Kitadi, emigrated from the Congo Democratic Republic to the US before they moved to Toronto when she was two months old. Inspired by her tennis siblings at university she started playing at the age of three or four and trained extensively on Edge Academy players in northern Toronto.
The injury was hampered by her early career, but won her first professional singles title at the ITF W25 in Saskatoon in 2022 and defended it in 2023. The same year was in Junior Grand Slam doubles on the Australian open and Wimbledon.
At the beginning of 2025, MBoko won five ITF titles across Martinique, Guadeloupe, USA, England and Portugal and recorded a 22-match lane without dropping a set-Canad female record for consecutive victory in the Draw.
After training in Belgium, she teamed up with the coaches Nathalie Tauziat and Nolle van Lottum and increased its appearance. At the French Open 2025, she became the youngest Canadian, who won the match with the main Draw Grand Slam, impressed her athletics and peace.
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Published:
Sabyasachi Chowdhury
Published on:
August 8, 2025
