Canadian teen Mboko falls to Olympic champion Zheng at French Open

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 30, 2025 9:05 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

Canadian teen Victoria Mboko's breakthrough Grand Slam tally came to an extremity Friday astatine the French Open.

The 18-year-old from Toronto was beaten 6-3, 6-4 by No. 8 effect Zheng Qinwen of China successful third-round enactment astatine Roland Garros.

Mboko, ranked No. 333 astatine the commencement of the year, had surged into the spotlight with 3 consecutive wins successful qualifying and 2 much successful the main gully — each successful consecutive sets — earlier moving into Zheng, an Australian Open finalist who won Olympic golden successful singles past summertime connected these aforesaid Paris clay courts.

Zheng won 70 per cent of her first-serve points and saved six of 8 interruption points.

Mboko was breached 4 times and won lone 38 per cent of her second-serve points.

Still, it was a large measurement guardant for Mboko successful her Grand Slam main-draw debut. She'll officially participate the WTA's apical 100 erstwhile the tourney wraps.

Later Friday, Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., and Kazakhstan's Yulia Putintseva fell 6-4, 0-6, 6-4 to Slovakia's Tereza Mihalikova and Great Britain's Olivia Nicholls.

Fernandez and Putintseva converted six of 9 interruption chances but managed to prevention conscionable 1 of six against them successful the second-round women's doubles match.

Montreal's Gabriel Diallo and Great Britain's Jacob Fearnley mislaid successful second-round men's doubles action.

The brace fell 6-2, 6-3 to second-seeded Henry Patten of Great Britain and Harri Heliovaara of Finland.

Patten and Heliovaara committed conscionable six unforced errors to Diallo and Fearnley's 16, converted 4 of six break-point chances and saved some of their opponents'.