Victoria Mboko
Full name: Victoria Vanessa Mboko
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| Bio | She is a Canadian professional tennis player. Mboko has won one WTA Tour singles title, a WTA 1000 level event, at the 2025 Canadian Open. She is currently the No. 1 singles player from Canada. Mboko was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, US to Cyprien Mboko and Godee Kitadi who had moved from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United States due to political turmoil. The family subsequently settled in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, when she was two months old. Then they moved to Burlington, Ontario, in 2010 so the children could train at the Ace Tennis academy. Since 2021, Mboko has been part of Tennis Canada's National Training Centre in Montréal. Inspired by her older siblings, Victoria began playing tennis around the age of three or four. Mboko made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2022 Canadian Open in the doubles draw, partnering Kayla Cross. She made her first singles appearance as a wildcard at the 2022 Championnats de Granby, losing to Rebecca Marino. Her first professional singles title came at the W25 tournament in Saskatoon in 2022, a title she successfully defended in 2023. Her progress in earlier years had been affected by injuries. Mboko reached the finals of two junior Grand Slam tournaments in 2022, losing in both doubles competitions at the Australian Open and at Wimbledon. In January and February of 2025, Mboko won 22 successive matches without dropping a set to claim four ITF Circuit singles titles at tournaments in Le Lamentin, Martinique; Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe; Rome, United States; and Manchester, United Kingdom. Her 20 consecutive ITF-level main-draw match wins during this period set a new record for Canadian women since the ITF began keeping such records in 1994. She won a fifth ITF title of the year in March at the W75 tournament in Porto, Portugal, defeating Harriet Dart in the final. By early May 2025, her win-loss record for the season was 33–3. This series of results contributed to her entering the WTA top 200 for the first time, reaching a career-high ranking of No. 156 on March 31, 2025. She was given a wildcard entry into the Miami Open, her first WTA 1000 main draw. There, she recorded her first WTA Tour-level win by defeating Camila Osorio in the first round, before losing in the second round to 10th seed Paula Badosa in a third set tiebreak. Mboko then made her debut for the Canada Billie Jean King Cup team against Romania in the qualifying round of the BJK Cup held in Tokyo, recording a win over Miriam Bulgaru in the opening singles match. She qualified for the Italian Open and defeated wildcard entrant Arianna Zucchini in the first round. In the second round, she lost to fourth seed Coco Gauff, in three sets. Mboko made her French Open debut, after winning all three qualifying matches in straight sets. There, she defeated Lulu Sun and Eva Lys, recording her first two major main-draw wins. She made her debut at Wimbledon, as a lucky loser, but lost to Hailey Baptiste in the second round. At the Canadian Open, Mboko reached the quarterfinals by upsetting top seed and world No. 2, Coco Gauff, in straight sets. She followed that win by defeating Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro to reach the semifinals. She became the youngest player to reach the semifinals in Canada since Belinda Bencic in 2015. After saving a match point, Mboko defeated ninth seed Elena Rybakina in three sets to reach her first WTA Tour final. In the final, she defeated Naomi Osaka in three sets to lift her first career title, becoming the third Canadian to win the home-country tournament and the first to do it in Montréal. As a result, she reached the top 25 at No. 24 in the WTA singles rankings on August 11, 2025. Mboko plays right-handed with a two-handed backhand. According to the WTA, her game is built around a strong serve and a counterpunching backhand, and she also utilizes drop shots regularly. She has credited Tennis Canada and the support from fellow Canadian players for her development. |
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