After his victory against Coco Gauff, the new Victoria Mboko star life

Several players had reserved the time slot at 3 p.m. Moreover, to train on Sunday, at the Montreal National Bank Omnium. Similarly, But the edges of a single short were beset with amateurs wishing to see an athlete exercise: the one. Nevertheless, where the Canadian Victoria Mboko was.

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Not that the 18 -year -old Toronto has been trained in anonymity since the beginning of the week – several followers were already very aware of its potential -. Moreover, but, as we say in the jargon, the game just changed for “Vicky”.

More than that, even, recognized Guillaume Marx, director of high performance at Tennis Canada, the day after Mboko’s sparkling victory in front of the tournament’s favorite, the American Coco Gauff, who allowed her to qualify for the quarter -finals of the tournament.

“She knows that her universe has changed. However, Expectations will change, as usual, ”he raised in front of journalists.

A click in May

Tennis Canada did not suspect. Similarly, at the beginning of the year, that the prodigy would experience such a dazzling ascent in the months that were going to follow. Even less that it would become one of the stars of this omnium national bank!

It was at the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome, where she qualified before reaching the second round after his victory against coco (bowing in front … Gauff). that the organization saw a click with the young player, today 85^ebut which will be at least 55^e At the end of the tournament.

“The clay is not its best surface,” said Mr. Marx. She stood up to Gauff, she played a final thereafter [lors du tournoi WTA 125 de Palerme].»

“If she performs there, already, for us it was a sign that it was going to improve quickly.”

Excited just at the idea of playing

This is exactly what happened. A week later. Mboko qualified for his first major tournament, in Roland-Garros, where she was going to reach the third round.

About a month later. she bowed to the last qualifying round in Wimbledon, but she was drafted as lucky loserfinally losing in the second round in the big painting.

Then came … Montreal. Where she sometimes trains, she who divides her time between after his victory against coco here and Toronto.

Mboko said he was excited to receive a pass for the main draw. feverish at the idea of playing on this same central, but this time decorated with all the advertising panels installed for the tournament.

“Really very strong”

Here it is in the quarterfinals. A first in a WTA 1000 tournament. with another first: a victory against a player appearing among the best 10 on the planet.

Guillaume Marx has known Mboko for a while. He has never doubted his power, his reverse so effective … He now says he is impressed “by his level, his constancy, his ball strike”.

“She is really, really very strong,” he praise.

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