Victoria Mboko, of Canada, serves to Barbora Krejcikova, of the Czech Republic, during the first round of the US Open tennis championships, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
October 23, 2025 - 10:50 PM
TOKYO — Victoria Mboko's run at the Toray Pan Pacific Open came to an end Friday as she fell 6-3, 7-6(4) to Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan in the quarterfinals.
The Canadian teenager won 83.3 per cent of her first-serve points across the one-hour, 31-minute match, and conceded just one of three break points in the loss.
Rybakina, the tournament's No. 2 seed, fired five aces to advance to the semifinals at the WTA 500 hard court tournament.
The quarterfinals bout was a rematch for the pair after Mboko beat Rybakina in a semifinal of the National Bank Open in Montreal.
The 19-year-old from Toronto went on to win that tournament as a wild-card entry.
Rybakina also eliminated Canada's Leylah Fernandez from the Pan Pacific Open, beating her 6-4, 6-3 in a second-round match on Thursday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 23, 2025.
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