The Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko claimed her first WTA Tour -Kroon when she opened Naomi Osaka for a first title in the National Bank open for four years.
The 18-year-old, in 85th place in the world, came from a set against the former world number one to win 2-6, 6-4, 6-1 in Montreal and became the third Canadian who won the event.
The final contained 13 service pause, Mboko converted eight of her nine breaking point options after she hadn’t forced one in a first set when she made 22 casual mistakes.
“It has been an incredible week,” said Mboko, who had previously eliminated Grand Slam champions Sofia Kenin, Coco Gauff and Elena Rybakina.
“I also want to thank Naomi for an incredible match. I always looked up at her when I was really small, so it’s always great to play with a great player like you.”
Mboko has started the 333rd year, will rise to 34 in the updated rankings.
The last title of Osaka was on the Australian Open in 2021. The final was her first at the WTA 1000 level since Miami in 2022 and her best performance since she returned from pregnancy leave after her daughter Shai in July 2023.
The final of the men’s event in Toronto, on the other hand, supplied only three breaks of Serve as American fourth seed, Ben Shelton survived Karen Khahanov, 11th, to win 6-7, 6-4, 7-6.
Second seeds Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool defeated sixth seeds Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski 6-3, 6-7, 13-11 in a fully British doubles final.
The victory, the sixth of the year of Cash and Glasspool and first ATP Masters 1000 Success, made the Wimbledon champions the first pair that the qualification for the ATP final in Turin guarantees.
Cash told the ATP website: “Qualification for Turin was one of our big goals in the low season, so it is clearly great to have done it so early.
“But [we have] I have some more things to do for the end of the season and then we will insist at the end. “
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