18 -year -old Thang shocked Coco Gauff

Mboko is the youngest female tennis player in the quarterfinals of Canada, since Gauff itself three years ago. The 18 -year -old talent is also the fifth young player to lower the number one seed in WTA 1000, after names like Mirra Andraeva or Belinda Bennic.

Mboko's one -way match when Gauff was miserable. The number one seed constantly broken and the serve is unstable, winning only 12 points in 27 two serve. Despite reducing the number of double serve errors on these 6 bugs, Gauff's intersection was not difficult enough, making her always falling into a passive defense when the juniors counterattack. In the previous two matches, American tennis players had 37 double bugs, unbelievable numbers even with amateur players.

across the net, Mboko played more brave than the age of 18, when saving the entire year of break-point. The player born in 2006 also took advantage of four years in the year of break-point in both sets.

Mboko is advancing this season, climb from 333 position to 85 worlds before Canada expanded, and will reach No. 53 when the update transcript next week. If she entered the semi -finals, the Canadian talent of French -based even joined the top 30 - the location that she did not think about the beginning of the season. "I don't know what to say. All this is crazy. I am really enjoying the tennis", Mboko said after defeating Gauff. She used to go to the main round of WTA 1000 Rome, where she made Gauff have a battle of three hard sets in the second round. After leaving Paris, the 21-year-old tennis player lost three in the last five matches, including early defeats in Berlin, Wimbledon and Montreal.

The next opponent of Mboko, Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, Spanish player defeated Zhu Lin 7-5, 1-6, 6-2. Other quarterfinals were identified as Marta Kostyuk to meet Elena Rybakina and Madison Keys to face Clara Tauson, who defeated the number of three worlds of Iga Swiatek 7-6, 6-3.