Toronto teen Victoria Mboko qualifies for Italian Open main draw with comeback win

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Canada's Victoria Mboko qualified for the Italian Open main gully Tuesday with a 4-6, 6-1, 6-1 comeback triumph successful Rome implicit ninth-seeded Kamilla Rakhimova of Russia.

18-year-old fired six aces and won 70 per cent of her 1st-serve points successful Rome

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 06, 2025 11:52 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Canadian tennis subordinate    Victoria Mboko hits a instrumentality    against Japan's Ena Shibahara during the archetypal  women's singles lucifer  against Japan successful  Tokyo connected  April 13, 2025 astatine  the Billie Jean King Cup Group A qualifier.

After Tuesday's three-set triumph implicit Kamilla Rakhimova, Canada's Victoria Mboko, pictured, volition marque conscionable her 2nd quality successful a WTA 1000 main draw, having reached the 2nd circular successful Miami successful March. (Richard A. Brooks/AFP via Getty Images/File)

Canada's Victoria Mboko qualified for the Italian Open main gully Tuesday with a 4-6, 6-1, 6-1 comeback triumph successful Rome implicit ninth-seeded Kamilla Rakhimova of Russia.

The 18-year-old from Toronto fired six aces, won 70 per cent of her first-serve points and broke Rakhimova six times.

Mboko took power aft the archetypal set, winning 12 of the last 14 games to decorativeness the lucifer successful conscionable implicit 2 hours.

She'll marque conscionable her 2nd quality successful a WTA 1000 main draw, having reached the 2nd circular successful Miami successful March.

Mboko, ranked 158th successful the world, has compiled a 32-3 grounds this play portion racking up 5 titles connected the lower-tier ITF circuit.

She'll find retired her first-round hostile successful Rome erstwhile the gully is completed.

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