Canadian teen Victoria is a bag Got the biggest victory of her career on Saturday evening and beat World No. 2 and Tournament Favorite Coco Gauff 6-1 6-4 to the quarterfinals of the All Banquian National In Montreal.
The 18-year-old Wildcard from Canada needed a little more than an hour to eliminate Gauff, who struggled with loose mistakes during the game. Gauff, who won the French Open earlier this summer, has now lost three of her last five games, with disappointing early outputs in Berlin and Wimbledon prior to this tournament.
Although Gauff had reduced her double mistakes compared to earlier in the week – where she had a total of 37 about matches against Danielle Collins and Veronika Kudermetova – her second serve kept her disappointing. She won less than half of her second -class points against Mboko and could not take advantage of five break opportunities. Mboko, on the other hand, remained under pressure, which saved all five breaking points that confronted them and to convert four of the five chances on the Serve of Gauff.
The victory marks an important milestone for Mboko, currently ranked no. 85, which started the season ranked outside the top 300. Her live ranking now jumps to No. 53, with a quarter -final victory that may encourage her as no. 24, According to the WTA.
The crowd of Montreal broke out when Mboko dropped her racket and covered her face in disbelief after the last point. Her run has already written history because she is the youngest Canadian woman who reached the quarterfinals at the event since Helen Kelesi in 1987 and only the second wildcard who defeated a number 1 seed during the tournament in the open era, after the victory of Stephanie Dubois over Kim Clijsters in 2006.
Mboko is also the fifth-year-old player to beat a top seed during a WTA 1000 event since the format was introduced in 2009. Only Gauff (Rome 2021), Mirra Andreeva (Indian Wells 2025), Belinda Bencic (Toronto 2015) and Chang Kai-Chen.
Her breakout 2025 season started with 20 consecutive victories in smaller tournaments and four titles at a lower level. In Rome, only her second WTA Main-Draw-appear, she pushed Gauff to three sets. Now, just a few months later, she has beaten her on a home floor.
Jessica Bouzas Maleiro will be the quarter -final opponent of Mboko at Omnium Banque Nationale.
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