Canada's Victoria Mboko ousted from Pan Pacific Open in quarterfinals

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Oct 24, 2025 9:20 AM EDT | Last Updated: October 24

Victoria Mboko's tally astatine the Toray Pan Pacific Open came to an extremity Friday arsenic she fell 6-3, 7-6(4) to Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan successful the quarterfinals.

The Canadian teen won 83.3 per cent of her first-serve points crossed the one-hour, 31-minute match, and conceded conscionable 1 of 3 interruption points successful the loss.

Rybakina, the tournament's No. 2 seed, fired 5 aces to beforehand to the semifinals astatine the WTA 500 hard tribunal tournament.

The quarterfinals bout was a rematch for the brace aft Mboko bushed Rybakina successful a semifinal of the National Bank Open successful Montreal.

The 19-year-old from Toronto went connected to triumph that tourney arsenic a wild-card entry.

Rybakina besides eliminated Canada's Leylah Fernandez from the Pan Pacific Open, beating her 6-4, 6-3 successful a second-round lucifer connected Thursday.

Auger-Aliassime, Shapovalov withdraw

Canadians Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov some withdrew from their quarterfinal matches connected Friday astatine the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament.

Montreal's Auger-Aliassime, a two-time victor of the ATP 500 event, retired aft losing the archetypal acceptable 6-3 to Spain's Jaume Munar.

Later, Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., retired portion down 3-6, 6-3, 4-1 to Brazil's Joao Fonseca.

Auger-Aliassime, who won his 3rd trophy of the twelvemonth past week successful Brussels, saw his hopes of qualifying for the ATP Finals successful Turin dented with the loss.

He entered the tourney ranked 12th successful the satellite and ninth successful the Race to Turin standings, 340 points down eighth-placed Lorenzo Musetti. The apical 8 suffice for the year-end championship.

Auger-Aliassime, seeded 5th successful Basel, appeared to tweak his little backmost during the archetypal acceptable and spent clip stretching it retired passim the quarterfinal.

He dropped his service successful the 4th crippled and was ne'er capable to recover, though helium did fend disconnected 3 interruption points successful the sixth game.

He had defeated chap Canadian Gabriel Diallo (No. 41) and Croatia's Marin Cilic (No. 89) successful the erstwhile 2 rounds.

World No. 23 Shapovalov, who was coming disconnected a semifinal quality past week successful Stockholm, looked coagulated successful his archetypal acceptable against Fonseca, overcoming a interruption successful the archetypal crippled to spell up 1-0.

But the Brazilian teen, ranked 46th successful the world, came backmost with a beardown 2nd set. He scored his 5th interruption of the lucifer to spell up 4-1 successful the 3rd acceptable erstwhile Shapovalov retired.

Munar and Fonseca volition conscionable successful the semifinals.

Meanwhile, Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski and her American spouse Sofia Kenin fell to Brazil's Luisa Stefani and Hungary's Timea Babos successful the women's doubles quarterfinals astatine the Tokyo Open.