Canadian teen Mboko extends perfect run to reach 3rd round at French Open

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 28, 2025 9:23 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Toronto's Victoria Mboko extended her imagination tally astatine the French Open with a 6-4, 6-4 triumph implicit Germany's Eva Lys connected Wednesday to scope the 3rd round.

The 18-year-old Canadian hasn't dropped a acceptable done 5 matches — including 3 wins successful qualifying — and has present posted back-to-back main-draw victories astatine the circuit level for the archetypal time.

She improved her play grounds to 42-5, with astir of those wins coming connected the lower-tier ITF circuit, wherever she's captured 5 titles.

Ranked No. 120, Mboko volition adjacent look Olympic champion and eighth effect Qinwen Zheng of China.

In men's doubles, Montreal's Gabriel Diallo and British spouse Jacob Fearnley cruised into the 2nd circular with a 6-0, 6-2 triumph implicit Colombia's Nicolas Barrientos and India's Rithvik Bollipalli. Diallo is besides competing successful singles and volition look No. 35 Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands successful the 2nd round.

Fellow Canadian Denis Shapovalov, of Richmond Hill, Ont., is scheduled to look Austrian qualifier Filip Misolic successful his second-round singles lucifer connected Thursday.