The women’s tennis world is officially on notice.
There’s a new young star in the game -- her name is Victoria Mboko and she's Canadian.
The 18-year-old from Toronto capped off a magical run at the 2025 Canadian Open, branded the National Bank Open, with a monumental victory over Naomi Osaka tonight.
With the home crowd in Montreal fiercely behind her, she overcame a first-set loss to lift the trophy for her first career WTA title.
VICKY MBOKO MONTREAL CHAMPION 🏆✨
— wta (@WTA) August 8, 2025
Vicky Mboko completes an incredible run on homesoil to defeat Osaka 2-6, 6-4, 6-1 in the final and win her first WTA title!#OBN25 pic.twitter.com/NCu3iFbgk2
Osaka had a strong start to the match, breaking Mboko early and looking impenetrable on her serve to take the first game 6-2.
A couple of close line calls early in the second set seemed to rattle the former world No. 1, however, and it created an opening for Mboko to battle back.
In a set dominated by breaks, Mboko took a big lead and held on late to win it 6-4, forcing a third and final set to decide the championship.
Breaks were once again the theme early in the final set and Mboko was the first of the two women to earn a hold, which gave her a 3-1 advantage in games.
From there, she didn’t look back.
Mboko won the next three games to cap off a dominant final set, including a miraculous point in the final game just moments before she dropped to her knees to celebrate the momentous win.
VICTORIA MBOKO WINS THE NATIONAL BANK OPEN 🤩🇨🇦#OBN25 | @OBNmontreal pic.twitter.com/SOa3RN2vLb
— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) August 8, 2025
Having started the year outside of the top 300 in the world rankings, Mboko entered the tournament in late July as an unranked wild card.
She stormed through the first two rounds with a pair of straight-set wins and knocked off Marie Bouzková in three sets to advance into the fourth round.
Up against Coco Gauff, a two-time Grand Slam winner and the tournament’s top seed, Mboko cruised to a 6-1, 6-4, victory in just 62 minutes.
Mboko then easily knocked off Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro in the quarterfinal before a thrilling three-set win over No. 9-seeded Elena Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon champion, in the semis on Wednesday.
The win over Osaka, a four-time Grand Slam champion, made it four major winners that Mboko beat over her improbable run in Montreal.
A NEW CANADIAN SUPERSTAR IS BORN 🏆🇨🇦
— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) August 8, 2025
Victoria Mboko defeats Naomi Osaka in a three-set battle to capture the National Bank Open title in Montreal 💥#OBN25 | @OBNmontreal pic.twitter.com/9uspi3h7d3
Along with Osaka and the aforementioned Gauff and Rybakina, Mboko also defeated former Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin in the second round.
Mboko earned just over $750,000 for her victory and jumped all the way up to No. 25 in the world rankings, which means she’ll be seeded when she heads to the US Open later this month.
Before Mboko's triumph tonight, Bianca Andreescu was the last Canadian woman to win the country's national open back in 2019.
Andreescu won the US Open a month later and Mboko will be hoping for a repeat of that magical story in New York.
