Canada will hold a match in the fourth round of the National Bank at the Montreal Open this weekend. Her name: Victoria Mboko.
Mboko overcomes a set deficit to beat Marie Bouzkova 1-6, 6-3, 6-0 on Thursday night at the IGA Stadium.
Mboko continued to use her bubble serve, hitting five ACEs, putting her total to 32 in the game. Her synonymous striking forehand also remained fully displayed throughout the last two hours of the long competition.
Nevertheless, after amassing only seven times in the opening two rounds, she made 10 double failures in the game.
The 18-year-old, the last of nine Canadians in the WTA’s 1000 major draw, won the sixth victory in the top 50 players.
Bouzkova sees her seven-game winning streak coming to an end. The Czech, a semi-finalist in Toronto in 2019, stood out last week in her native Brague.
Bouzkova performed well, breaking Mboko in the opening two service matches to lead 3-0.
The Toronto natives won one of the games in the next game, cutting the deficit to 3-1, but the three-man turnover in Game 5 left the Czech two breakout mats back.
Bouzkova broke Mboko for the fourth time, 6-1 in the field in just 29 minutes. It marks the first set Mboko discarded in the game.
After spending a moment in the locker room, Mboko revenges back to court.
Mboko immediately broke the rivals in the opening game of the second set, a match she combined, thanks to an accidental bounce that won the fair net line. However, Mboko’s second service game has three doubles, giving the match level 2-2 in the match.
However, due to the opponent’s double fault, Mboko did not put Mboko in trouble.
She broke the game again in Game 9, taking 6-3 in matches.
The third set was like the second set, with Mboko leading 2-0. On the way to the final with little clarity, there are two more serving times.
Mboko will next play the best-seeded Coco Goff in the fourth round, who beat Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova in three sets earlier on Thursday.
Gauff and Mboko will meet in the WTA 1000 Championship for the second time this season. The Americans got Mboko’s better in the second round of three-set battles at Clay Stadium in Rome in May.
French Open champion Gauff has committed 37 doubles in two matches so far this week.
“It really made me win these games,” Goff said. “If I could stand on both feet, I could only imagine that it would be much easier for me. ”
Gauff may avoid disaster, but for other best seeds, the disaster is beyond words, and they see their game ending in a day.
Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk was seeded in 24th and defeated the 15th seed Daria Kasatkina 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4) in the Central Court. The fourth seed Mirra Andreeva also bounced prematurely, landing directly on the US McCartney Kessler game, 7-6 (5), 6-4.
Lin Zhu of China quickly completed the fast work of Suzan Lamens of the Netherlands with a score of 6-2 and 6-2 in more than an hour. She will face Espanyol Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, who eliminated the Japanese qualifiers 4-6, 7-5, 6-3.
The game lasted until the final on August 7th.
