Canada’s Victoria Mboko tops Lulu Sun in Grand Slam debut at French Open

Canada’s Victoria Mboko was once victorious in her Grand Slam debut on the French Open.

Mboko disenchanted No. 45 Lulu Sun of New Zealand 6-1, 7-6 (4) all through first-round motion on Sunday.

The 18-year-old from Toronto fired seven aces and received 80 in step with cent of issues on first serve whilst changing two of 3 break-point makes an attempt.

Mboko has been rolling on clay courts, securing 3 consecutive victories in qualifying to e-book a place in her first main event.

She will play Germany’s Eva Lys in the second one around on Wednesday.

Mboko is one in every of 5 Canadians in singles at Roland-Garros, becoming a member of Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., within the ladies’s draw, and Félix Auger-Aliassime, Gabriel Diallo and Denis Shapovalov at the males’s facet.

Fernandez, ranked 27th on the planet, opens in opposition to No. 34 Olga Danilovic of Serbia. 

Shapovalov, ranked 27th at the males’s facet, opens in opposition to No. 48 Pedro Martinez of Spain. No. 29 Auger-Aliassime faces No. 39 Matteo Arnaldi of Italy, and Diallo, ranked 53rd, faces No. 18 Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina.

Auger-Aliassime’s French Open tune-up got here to an finish Friday with a 6-1, 6-4 loss to Andrey Rublev within the semifinals of the Hamburg Open. The loss dropped Auger-Aliassime’s document in opposition to the Russian to 1-7.

Still, entering into 4 aggressive suits on clay on the ATP 500 tournament will assist after Auger-Aliassime pulled out of the Italian Open previous this month with a sore again.

Auger-Aliassime’s 3 wins in Hamburg have been his first on clay this season. He hadn’t received on excursion since a second-round victory in Miami again in March.

Fernandez and Diallo can even compete in doubles, whilst Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski groups up with New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe in ladies’s doubles.

–with information from the Canadian Press