Overview
- Victoria Mboko defeated Jelena Ostapenko 6-3, 6-2 to reach her second WTA 1000 final and guarantee her first appearance in the WTA top 10 on Monday.
- Her quarter-final win over Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 ended the Kazakh’s nine-match winning run.
- Karolina Muchova advanced to the title match by rallying past Maria Sakkari 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 after trailing by a set and a break.
- Mboko will be the first Canadian finalist in the Qatar Open and is set to become the fourth Canadian woman to break into the WTA top 10.
- Rising from outside the top 300 at the start of 2025, Mboko’s surge includes a WTA 1000 title in Montreal and now a breakthrough week in Doha.