{"id":15865,"date":"2025-08-06T00:05:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=15865"},"modified":"2025-08-06T00:05:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:05:03","slug":"rybakina-to-face-teen-mboko-in-canadian-open-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=15865","title":{"rendered":"Rybakina to face teen Mboko in Canadian Open semis"},"content":{"rendered":"
Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion, and Canadian teen Victoria Mboko advanced to a WTA Canadian Open semi-final matchup with triumphs on Monday in the Montreal hard court event.<\/p>\n

World number 12 Rybakina of Kazakhstan led 6-1, 2-1 when Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk retired in the second set with a wrist injury.<\/p>\n

Mboko, the shocker of the event, dispatched Spain’s Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 6-4, 6-2 by taking the final six games to reach her first WTA 1000 semi-final in pursuit of her first trip to a WTA final.<\/p>\n

“I’m so excited to be in the semi-final here,” Mboko told the supportive home nation crowd. “I want to thank everyone for your support once again. It has been unreal.”<\/p>\n

Rybakina won their only prior meeting 6-3, 7-5 last month in the second round at Washington.<\/p>\n

The top five seeds and seven of the top 10 seeds were ousted before the quarter-finals, opening the door for such upstarts as 18-year-old Mboko, who eliminated top seed Coco Gauff.<\/p>\n

World number 85 Mboko, who began the year raked 333rd in the world, has ensured herself a jump into the top 50 for the first time in her career next week.<\/p>\n

Mboko broke 51st-ranked Bouzas Maneiro for a 5-3 lead. The Spaniard broke back in the ninth game only to drop the first set after 43 minutes when Mboko broke again.<\/p>\n

Bouzas Maneiro broke to open the second set then held but Mboko never dropped a game from there, taking the match after 77 minutes when the Spaniard sent a backhand beyond the baseline.<\/p>\n

The crowd, which chanted “it’s not over” in French after the match, has been the best part of the amazing run, Mboko said.<\/p>\n

“I train here (in Canada) and it’s always a great opportunity to be here,” Mboko said. “My first time playing in Montreal has been an unreal experience and I couldn’t be more grateful.”<\/p>\n

Rybakina, seeded ninth, seeks her third WTA title after Rome and Indian Wells in 2023. She has not reached a final since last year at Miami.<\/p>\n

Rybakina broke 24th-seeded Kostyuk to open the match and led 2-1 when Kostyuk received medical treatment on her right wrist and forearm.<\/p>\n

Kostyuk netted a backhand to surrender a break in the fifth game and Rybakina broke again to claim the first set in 37 minutes when Kostyuk sent a forehand long.<\/p>\n

In the second set, Rybakina held twice before Kostyuk retired after 54 minutes due to her wrist issues, walking off the court in tears.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s quarter-final matches send four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka of Japan against Ukraine’s 10th-seeded Elina Svitolina and US sixth seed Madison Keys, this year’s Australian Open champion, against Danish 16th seed Clara Tauson.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion, and Canadian teen Victoria Mboko advanced to a WTA Canadian Open semi-final matchup with triumphs on Monday in the Montreal hard court event. World number 12 Rybakina of Kazakhstan led 6-1, 2-1 when Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk retired in the second set with a wrist injury. Mboko, the shocker of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}