Wildcard Mboko hit Osaka to win Montreal’s first championship – Tennis now
Richard Pagliaro | Thursday, August 7, 2025
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diving Victoria Mboko Throw yourself at the ball, flick a flying reply, making a sensational roar to Montreal fans.
Canadian wildcard crashed in court, chasing the dropper to wrap the wild ride. Mboko achieved amazing 2-6, 6-4, 6-1 defeated independent Naomi Osaka To win the fairy tale championship to win her mother-in-law championship to win the National Comprehensive Open.
The 18-year-old Mboko took home fans on an exciting journey, which is sometimes unpredictable, unruly and downright ugly, as former world No. 1 Osaka stands out spiritually in the face of teenagers’ fierce competitiveness, roaring crowd support and self-winning.
It ends with a crash landing and will descend with a historic flight. Mboko is the second year woman in WTA history, beating four Grand Slam champions – Sofia Kenin, Coco Gauff, Elena Rybakina and Osaka, which is the route to the championship. Only legendary Serena Williams is a 17-year-old Dynamo wearing a canary-colored Puma dress when she defeated four major titles, including world No. 1 Martina Hingis to win the 1999 U.S. Open.
The explosive Mboko is the third wildcard to win the WTA 1000 title after coming to be a Hall of Fame member Maria Sharapova (Cincinnati 2011) and fellow compatriot Bianca Andreescu (Willes in India 2019). Mboko fell on the court in the semifinal defeat of Rybakina, refusing to let pain or stress slow her roll.
“It feels incredible now. I mean, words can’t really describe today today
Mboko told the Montreal media. “It’s true today. I woke up this morning and actually my wrists started to swollen a little since yesterday’s fall and we’ll go soon
Before I came to the court today to practice, the hospital actually had to do an MRI and X-ray.
“So once we got the green light, there was nothing serious on the wrist, I came here, practiced very quickly and prepared for my game. So I thought it was all today
The events I did felt sweeter. ”
Ranked 85th in the world, Mboko ranked 358th a year ago, the second highest woman, won the WTA 1000 title after 133 Kim Clijsters, who won the 2005 Indian Wells Championship.
Finally, the network divides a huge emotional breadth between four-time major champion Osaka and first-time finalist Mboko.
The teenager, calmer and deeper desire than frustrated Osaka, violated the code by bringing the ball into the stands, her opponent’s towel fell off as she intended to serve in her game and ended up in vacant position.
In the last five games, a determined Mboko succumbed to her knees after winning a two-hour and four-minute victory.
To be honest, it was a weird final breakout, both of which had some great shots, and neither woman seemed unable to keep the ball in between for a continuous stretch. Mboko overcomes 13 double failures and 27% second service percentages, while Osaka often lets her defensive opponents kill the kills only in a few cases. Mboko converted seven of the eight breakout points and adopted her speed and determination to expand the points and hit the downline to eliminate them.
Winning moment✨
Victoria Mboko took her first WTA title in Montreal, beating Osaka 2-6, 6-4, 6-1.#OBN25 pic.twitter.com/ovelb47ymz
– wta (@wta) August 8, 2025
Sometimes, this final is like watching the performer musician scream in the tension of the open music and then screaming.
However, Mboko showed her perseverance, courage and star power, drowning Osaka in frustration.
First, Osaka provided Mboko with a dose of forehand medicine, who received a dose from Liudmila Samsonova in the second round.
In her 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-3 13-seed Samsonova’s comeback conquest, Osaka repeatedly beat a set and a half in Crosscourt Exchanges. Japanese sometimes take an important step, rather than a short, precise preparation step, to make the ideal spacing between their bodies and the ball provide themselves with the ideal spacing.
Tonight, Osaka comes out across the baseline to tear Crosscourt’s forehand basically tells the teenager: Let’s see if you can hang and explode in Crosscourt’s forehand manual fireworks.
Osaka showed off her two-time U.S. Open title shots, and his forehand hit a line down to lead 4-1. Osaka whipped the forehand with sinister intentions and opened the opening again within 37 minutes.
World No. 49 seems to be under control, but Mboko’s speed and durability are fast, and the participation of the crowd has increasingly put Osaka in a strange and sour place.
Thousands of Canadian fans screamed in the face of a passionate, fearless opponent, and the prospect of winning her biggest title in four years has intensified the focus in Osaka. This is completely understandable.
However, if you are as experienced as Osaka, you can’t be like she’s done a few times pointing to the ball she thinks is actually landing on the sidelines. You have to play the actual phone call, not the phone you wish to hear – but it shows the nerves that Japanese superstars even feel.
When Osaka left the game for the second straight and fell 1-2 in the second set, she threw the blue Yonex stick onto the court in obvious frustration.
Online, 18-year-old Mboko means business. After a 40-15 lead and double knockout in Game 4, Mboko exploded a huge return and made another 3-2, making the sixth breakthrough in this tough final.
Mboko escaped the double fault and fell into the groove and raised a wild forehand error that lasted 4-2 at 30, the first hit rate since Osaka, which was Osaka’s 5-2 up at the opening.
A rattled Osaka was staring at the sky as if looking for answers from above, while Mboko spent a game in love, extending her lead to 5-2.
The back wall in Osaka is close to the back wall, cutting a ridiculous character, looking frustrated. Then Mboko threw a lifeline at her.
The teenager lost his serve completely, spitting out three double faults, watching Osaka return to the line, and stood out in Game 8. Osaka waved her first suit, stamped at 4-5 and shifted pressure on Mboko’s shoulders.
Mboko took the pace after giving her coaching box advice on service advice. This approach won three consecutive threes in her down 15-30 to steal the jitter and wild second set and force the decider in the game.
“Naomi is really great to play,” Mboko said. “I think she always has that aggressiveness.”
Play style, I know she is a player. When I lost the first set, I told myself to regroup a little bit and start fresh. I knew she would go – into the second set, I knew she would continue to be aggressive, so I had to rely on me
Defend the skills of most games.
“I had a hard time replicating what she put in because she played such a strong ball. But I think, at the end of the day, I just did everything I could to play and luckily, I got the win.”
Despite 12 double faults poured through two sets, the wildcard is one of her first professional champions. Osaka leaves the court and resets in front of the decision-maker.
Rest in retrospect is a big mistake, as Mboko spent a lot of time hitting practice and finding his groove while Osaka was trying to get his mind back on track.
Just when you think the crazy finals can’t be more unstable. Both women both intermittently and started the final. Osaka wasted the game with a 30-15 lead before bringing the ball into the stands, causing a violation warning when Mboko took his sixth break to lead 2-1.
Throughout the magical runs throughout Montreal, Mboko’s calmness under pressure, the creativity of running and her pure resilience have always been her super abilities. She showed it all in the fourth game of Drainage.
Mboko dripped sweat, breaking four breakout points in a dramatic six deuce game, dragging the dropper and holding 3-1 at 3-1 as the entire stadium seemed to roar on the collective feet.
If you’ve seen Osaka win any of her four Grand Slams, you know she can be the most important power player and take a trick with a devastating first strike.
This final reinforces the fact that Osaka’s disgust for the net remains a vulnerability as all her fantastic gifts as a ball shooter. Osaka has put the teenager in the move again and again in Game 5, but stubbornly persevered in trying to squeeze the shot into the line close to the line. Finally, when Mboko broke 4-1 for the seventh time, she suffered from forgetting.
Spiritually, Mboko soared in this magical flight and Osaka fell into misery.
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As Osaka hits a casual shot, a soaring Mboko runs forward, goes all out and hits the courtroom, shaking off her forehand in the process and losing her Wilson racket. The chairman referee called for a replay to ensure Mboko had a bounce, but it looked like she just wanted to leave Osaka on the field and didn’t even wait and didn’t play as required.
“In that game, I was like, oh, I was very close. I had a fighting mindset at that time.”
Just want to run and put as many balls as possible back on the court. I wanted it so much that I thought the fall was a little worth it.
“I mean, in this case, I want to be there with her. Naomi played so aggressively, she played some really clean shots. So I wanted to run and get back everything that wasn’t even possible.”
Mboko completed a magical run as Osaka congratulated her around the net and her knees. Back in 2018, Osaka overcame the legendary Serena Williams and 23,000 American fans screaming at Arthur Ashe Stadium, winning the U.S. Open at the moment she called it “bitter and sweet.”
Tonight, Mboko rode the support of the Canadian crowd and the wave of Osaka looked like a reversal of the character, looking very cational.
The huge victory Mboko surpassed fellow countrymen and Washington, D.C. champion Leylah Fernandez to become Canada’s tallest Canadian woman. Mboko said she will skip Cincinnati to rest her wrist pain afterwards to prepare for the U.S. Open. Despite its disappointing performance, Osaka ranked 24th in the rankings.
About Mboko’s game and her commitment to career, these two women will be dangerous threats at this month’s U.S. Open, according to what we’re doing tonight.
