Victoria Mboko’s rise isn’t slowing down. The 19-year-old sealed her Top 10 debut next week, along with her second WTA 1000 final, with a 6-3, 6-2 defeat of Jelena Ostapenko at the Qatar TotalEnergies Open.
Victoria Mboko advanced to her fourth WTA final, and second at WTA 1000 level, with a straight-sets defeat of Jelena Ostapenko at the Qatar TotalEnergies Open — and will become the fourth Canadian woman to reach the Top 10 next week.
This time last year, Mboko was ranked No. 211, and on the way to collecting her fourth ITF title of 2025 at the Manchester W35 in England. She had played just one WTA main draw in her career, and had yet to win a match at that level.
Just 12 months later, she has titles on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz under her belt — Montreal and Hong Kong last year — and has already reached two finals this season, having been runner-up to Mirra Andreeva in Adelaide.
Next week, she will be ranked either No. 9 (if she wins the title) or No. 10 (if she loses to Karolina Muchova or Maria Sakkari in the final) — becoming just the fourth Canadian woman to be ranked inside the Top 10, following Carling Bassett-Seguso, Eugenie Bouchard and Bianca Andreescu
Earlier in the tournament, she secured a landmark victory by upsetting world No. 3 and reigning Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina in the quarterfinals.
Key Tournament Highlights:
Final Bound: By reaching the final, Mboko is set to make her debut in the WTA Top 10 for the first time, becoming only the fourth Canadian woman to achieve this ranking.
Record Breaker: She is the first player in Qatar Open history to defeat two top-10 opponents in a single edition of the tournament (Mirra Andreeva and Elena Rybakina).
Match Performance: In her semifinal against Ostapenko, Mboko won in straight sets (6-3, 6-2) in just over an hour.
The final is scheduled to take place on Saturday, February 14, 2026, at the Khalifa International Tennis & Squash Complex in Doha
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