Canada’s Victoria Mboko acquired the Italian Open major draw Tuesday with a 4-6, 6-1, 6-1 resurgence win in Rome over ninth-seeded Kamilla Rakhimova of Russia.
The 18-year-old from Toronto terminated 6 aces, received 70 p.c of her first-serve components and broken Rakhimova 6 occasions.
Mboko took management after the very first assortment, successful 12 of the final 14 video video games to finish up the swimsuit in merely over 2 hours.
She’ll make merely her 2nd look in a WTA 1000 major draw, having truly gotten to the 2nd spherical in Miami in March.
Mboko, positioned 158th on the planet, has truly assembled a 32-3 doc this era whereas buying 5 titles on the lower-tier ITF circuit.
She’ll work out her first-round challenger in Rome as quickly because the draw is completed.
