Mboko reaches semis to continue dream Montreal run

Teenager Victoria Mboko continued her fairytale run at the Canadian Open as she breezed past Spain’s Jessica Bouzas Maneiro to reach the semi-finals. The 18-year-old Canadian, who knocked out two-time major winner Coco Gauff in the fourth round, impressed again on home soil with a 6-4 6-2 win in Montreal. She will face 2022 Wimbledon […]

Teenager Victoria Mboko continued her fairytale run at the Canadian Open as she breezed past Spain’s Jessica Bouzas Maneiro to reach the semi-finals.

The 18-year-old Canadian, who knocked out two-time major winner Coco Gauff in the fourth round, impressed again on home soil with a 6-4 6-2 win in Montreal.

She will face 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina, the ninth seed, in her first WTA 1000-level semi-final.

Mboko started the year ranked 333rd in the world, and is set to move into the top 50 when the rankings are updated next week.

After opening the season with a 22-match winning streak in which she captured five titles on the lower-tier ITF Tour, she made her WTA Tour debut in March.