Toronto teen Victoria Mboko falls to Olympic champ Zheng Qinwen at French Open
PARIS — Canadian teen Victoria Mboko's breakthrough Grand Slam run came to an end Friday at the French Open.
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The 18-year-old from Toronto was beaten 6-3, 6-4 by No. 8 seed Zheng Qinwen of China in third-round action at Roland Garros.
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Mboko, ranked No. 333 at the start of the year, had surged into the spotlight with three straight wins in qualifying and two more in the main draw — all in straight sets — before running into Zheng, an Australian Open finalist who won Olympic gold in singles last summer on these same Paris clay courts.
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Zheng won 70 per cent of her first-serve points and saved six of eight break points.
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Mboko was broken four times and won only 38 per cent of her second-serve points.
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Still, it was a major step forward for Mboko in her Grand Slam main-draw debut. She'll officially enter the WTA's top 100 when the tournament wraps.
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Later Friday, Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., and Kazakhstan's Yulia Putintseva fell 6-4, 0-6, 6-4 to Slovakia's Tereza Mihalikova and Great Britain's Olivia Nicholls.
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Fernandez and Putintseva converted six of nine break chances but managed to save just one of six against them in the second-round women's doubles match.
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Montreal's Gabriel Diallo and Great Britain's Jacob Fearnley lost in second-round men's doubles action.
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