Victoria Vanessa Mboko (born 26 August 2006) is a Canadian professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 16, achieved on 19 January 2026, and a doubles ranking of No. 352, achieved on 10 November 2025. Mboko has won two WTA Tour singles titles, including a WTA 1000 event at the 2025 Canadian Open.[1] She is currently the No. 1 singles player from Canada.
Mboko was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, US, on August 26, 2006. [2][3] Her parents, Cyprien Mboko and Godee Kitadi, had moved from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United States due to political turmoil. The family subsequently settled in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, when she was two months old.[4]
She is the youngest of four siblings, all of whom play tennis; her sister Gracia and brother Kevin played at the college level.[4] Inspired by her older siblings, Victoria began playing tennis around the age of three or four.[4]
Career
2022–2023: Early years
Mboko made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2022 Canadian Open in the doubles draw, partnering Kayla Cross. She made her first singles appearance as a wildcard at the 2022 Championnats de Granby, losing to Rebecca Marino.[5] Her first professional singles title came at the W25 tournament in Saskatoon in 2022, a title she successfully defended in 2023.[4] Her progress in earlier years had been affected by injuries.[4]
2025: Montreal title, top 20, Newcomer of the Year
Victoria Mboko playing in the first round of the 2025 Washington Open
In January and February, Mboko won 22 successive matches without dropping a set to claim four ITF Circuit singles titles at tournaments in Le Lamentin, Martinique; Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe; Rome, United States; and Manchester, United Kingdom.[8][9][4] Her 20 consecutive ITF-level main-draw match wins during this period set a new record for Canadian women since the ITF began keeping such records in 1994.[4] She won a fifth ITF title of the year in March at the W75 tournament in Porto, Portugal, defeating Harriet Dart in the final.[10] By early May 2025, her win-loss record for the season was 33–3.[4] This series of results contributed to her entering the WTA top 200 for the first time, reaching a career-high ranking of No. 156 on 31 March 2025.[4][10]
She qualified for the Italian Open[16] and defeated wildcard entrant Arianna Zucchini in the first round.[17] In the second round, she lost to fourth seed Coco Gauff, in three sets.[4][18] Mboko made her French Open debut, after winning all three qualifying matches in straight sets.[19][20] There, she defeated Lulu Sun and Eva Lys, recording her first two major main-draw wins.[21] She made her debut at Wimbledon, as a lucky loser, but lost to Hailey Baptiste in the second round.[22]
At the Canadian Open, Mboko reached the quarterfinals by upsetting top seed and world No. 2, Coco Gauff, in straight sets. She followed that win by defeating Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro to reach the semifinals.[23] She became the youngest player to reach the semifinals in Canada since Belinda Bencic in 2015.[24][25] After saving a match point, Mboko defeated ninth seed Elena Rybakina in three sets to reach her first WTA Tour final.[26] In the final, she defeated Naomi Osaka in three sets to lift her first career title, becoming the third Canadian to win the home-country tournament and the first to do it in Montréal.[27][28] As a result, she reached the top 25 at No. 24 in the WTA singles rankings on 11 August 2025.[29][30]
In November, Mboko claimed her second WTA title at the Hong Kong Open, defeating Cristina Bucșa in 2 hours and 49 minutes, making it the longest WTA tournament final of 2025.[31] She subsequently made her top 20 debut as No. 18 in the WTA rankings, on 3 November 2025.[32]
Mboko plays right-handed with a two-handed backhand.[3] According to the WTA, her game is built around a strong serve and a counterpunching backhand, and she also utilizes drop shots regularly.[4] She has credited Tennis Canada and the support from fellow Canadian players for her development.[4]
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