Rising Canadian tennis star Victoria Mboko is through to the quarterfinals of the Qatar Open after upsetting fifth seed Mirra Andreeva 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (5) on Wednesday.
Mboko, seeded 10th at the WTA 1000 hardcourt tournament, survived match point when Andreeva committed a double fault before converting a crucial break to tie the third set 5-5.
The Canadian finished off the victory in the third-set tiebreaker by ending a match-point rally with a backhand winner.
The match was the latest chapter in a budding rivalry between two of the top teen players in women’s tennis.
They met for the first time last month in the final of the Adelaide International, with the 18-year-old Russian winning 6-3, 6-1.
Mboko improved her record to 11-3 this season. The 19-year-old from Toronto is coming off a breakout 2025 campaign in which she won two titles, including a 1000-level crown at the National Bank Open in Montreal.
She will next face the winner of a third-round match between Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan and China’s Zheng Qinwen.
