Victoria Mboko, an 18-year-old entry in the Wildcard, lifted the Omnium Banque National Présenté Par Rogers-Trophy in Montréal after beating former World No 1 Naomi Osaka in the final of Thursday evening and completing a magic run on the WTA 1000 event.
The last two weeks have been insane. Even let the wildcard play here. I was super happy to play in Montréal for the first time. I just remember that I felt nervous, but the moment really as much as I could. When I won my first round, I was super happy and super capacity. I never thought I would have reached the final, let alone win the tournament. I have so many emotions that go through my head, I can’t even express it. Victoria is a bag
“It has been an incredible week,” said Mboko, who had previously upset 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.
“Finally, I want to thank everyone who came to support me all week. You were incredible and I couldn’t be more grateful.”
The Canadian teenager delighted her home crowd with her performance, won 2-6 6-4 6-1 in 2 hours and 4 minutes and denied Osaka a first title for 4 years, while she claimed her first at tour level.
It has been a dream run for Mboko, which started the year, ranked no. 333 in the world, entered Montréal at the age of 85 and now increases 60 places to no. 24 in the live rankings, which guarantees a place in the top 30 in the offers next week.
Since the 6th time, since the WTA 1000 level was introduced in 2009, two players have arranged the final outside the Top 40, making the 32 players placed in their wake in their wake.
Both had their fights and had previously saved match points, Osaka against Liudmila Samsonova and Mboko against Elena Rybakina.
The last title of Osaka was on the Australian Open in 2021, and this final was her first at the WTA 1000 level since Miami in 2022, after she had produced her best run this week since she returned from maternity leave after her daughter Shai in July 2023.
18-year-old Victoria Mboko has shown her resilience in disturbing 4 Grand Slam champions to win the Canadian open home bus
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The first set was peppered with nerve game, where Mboko made 2 double mistakes in the opening match, possibly due to a persistent wrist injury when she fell in the semi -final against Rybakina.
The wrist was heavily recorded, and the 18-year-old bend it over the set, which Osaka walked through without making a breaking point and making use of the 22 casual mistakes of the Canadian.
However, Mboko has shown a loyal resilience all week for someone who is so young, returning from dropping the first set to Marie Bouzkova in the 3rd round, and recovering from losing the opener to Rybakina with the same score to win in a third set of tiebreak.
She broke the Serve of Osaka 4 times in the second set and gave an impressive 5-2 lead in the third, but Osaka fluid back and limited the gap to 5-4.
Despite opening the next game with her 12th double errors, Mboko concluded it when another Forehand of Osaka rose for a long time.
While Mboko scored a break Van Osaka’s serving in the 3rd game of the last set, it was the 4th that was finally crucial when she fell in a 0-30 hole and continued to dig under the 4-way Grand Slam Champion’s busy.
The game contained 6 Deuses and she saved 4 breakpoints before she won it with a cool drop-shot winner, causing the partisan crowd at their feet.
That gave Mboko a decisive 4-1 lead, which she consolidated with a further hold that ended with an ace, and another Osaka Forehand in the net.
Mboko broke the Japanese for the 8th time when a backhand found the net, and the Canadian fell on her knees, fans who get up again on the feet to give her a persistent ovation.
4-way Grand SLAM champion Naomi Osaka grew through the opening set against Victoria Mboko, but was in 3 in the Montréal final
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“The past two weeks have been insane,” said Mboko. “Even the wildcard to play here. I was super happy to play in Montréal for the first time. I just remember that I felt nervous, but really as much as possible when I could.
“When I won my first round, I was super happy and super capacity. I never thought I would have reached the final, let alone win the tournament.
“I have so many emotions that go through my mind, I can’t even express it.”
The latter contained 13 Service Pauzes, Mboko converted 8 of her 9 breaking point options after finding none in a first set, when she made 22 casual mistakes.
Mboko has also added a 4th Grand SLAM champion to her growing list of scalp, and it is the first time that happened in a single tournament since our Jabeur and Elina Svitolina in Wimbledon 2023, but they were not teenagers, while the 18-year-old Canadian is the 2nd in the entire open era, after Serena after Serena, after Serena, after Serena, after Serena after Serena, after Serena, after Serena, after Serena, after Serena, after Serena, after Serena, after Serena, after Serena, after Serena, after Serena after Serena.
She is also only the 3rd homegrown champion in the Canadian Open in the Open Era, after Faye Urban in 1969 and Bianca Andreescu in 2019, while Mboko is also only the 3rd Wild-Card to win a WTA 1000-title since 2009, after Maria Sharapova in 2019 and Bianca Andrees.
Victoria Mboko paid tribute to her youth heroine Naomi Osaka in the presentation ceremony after the final on Thursday
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Both Mboko and Osaka walk away with great price checks and a healthy number of points, the Young Canadian rises the ranking after earning 999 points for her title run to bring her overall count to 1.835.
Players who win WTA 1000 events earn 1,000 points, but they also drop points from the accompanying event 12 months ago, because the WTA uses a 52-week rolling, cumulative system, so Mboko, which played in an ITF event in 2024, where she lost in the 1st round, only had 1 point to defend.
She is now ready to be sown in the US Open together with Osaka, who is in one place behind the Canadian in the live rankings at no. 25.
The Japanese started the fourteen days at no. 49 with 1,214 points and climbed 25 places after picking up 650 points to go to 1,864.
Mboko entered Montreal with career income of $ 458.001, of which $ 396,293 only came from her season 2025.
Her largest payment day so far came open on the French, where she earned $ 195,000 for reaching the 3rd round, and now she has almost doubled her career income with her title profit, a price check of $ 752,275 and brought her career count to $ 1.2 million.
The 27-year-old Naomi Osaka was open 21st on the profit list of all time prior to the Canada, with the $ 22,772,890 to her name, and she has now broken the $ 23 million with her $ 391,600 prize money.
Naomi Osaka took her win for career prizes over the $ 23 million by reaching the WTA 1000 Canadian Open Final
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