Victoria Mboko has just improved her stock on the WTA Tour even further after the Qatar Open, where she finished as runner-up.
Mboko lost the Qatar Open final to Karolina Muchova, but can hold her head very high after a fantastic run in Doha.
Just 19 years old, Mboko defeated Mirra Andreeva and Elena Rybakina en route to the final of the WTA 1000 tournament.
It followed the teenager’s fourth round run at the Australian Open, which Mboko entered after losing the Adelaide International final to Andreeva.
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Andreeva has been setting the standard for young players on the WTA Tour in recent times, typified by her back-to-back 1000 success in Dubai and Indian Wells in 2025.
The 18-year-old remains hugely relevant and impressive at seventh in the world, but now Mboko is very much the teenager who other players should look up to, especially thanks to her incredible rise through the rankings.
In January just last year, the Canadian was ranked 333rd in the world, before breaking into the Top 200 in March.
Mboko then entered the WTA Top 100 in June, and the Top 50 after clinching the Montreal title on home soil in August.
A Top 20 debut followed in November, with the hugely talented teenager currently in her career-high rank of 13.
But that record is now set to be broken again after her run in Qatar, with Mboko set for her Top 10 debut on the WTA Tour.
| Top rank by year | Year-end ranking | |
| 13 | 2026 | – |
| 18 | 2025 | 18 |
| 284 | 2024 | 350 |
| 316 | 2023 | 323 |
| 487 | 2022 | 499 |
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It’s been a simply phenomenal climb from Mboko, who at just 19 is very much capable of getting better and better.
She is still learning, but already boasts two career titles, having also emerged victorious in Hong Kong last year.
Her focus now turns to the Dubai Tennis Championships, where the 11th seed starts out against Jaqueline Cristian.
It’s certainly a very exciting time for the player and indeed for Canadian tennis, with her ATP counterpart Felix Auger-Aliassime also enjoying a fantastic start to 2026.
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He is currently number six in the world rankings, while his fellow Canadians Gabriel Diallo and Denis Shapovalov are both in the Top 40.
On the WTA Tour, Bianca Andreescu and Leylah Fernandez were once very much the Canadian players to watch, but Mboko has taken over from the duo expertly.
She will have plenty of pressure on her shoulders upon breaking into the Top 10, but the youngster looks more than capable of taking that on.
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