Serena Williams’ former coach Patrick Mouratoglou says Victoria Mboko has “the entire bundle’ and has declared the 19-year-old “the way forward for tennis.”
Mboko, who celebrated her nineteenth birthday in August, gained the WTA 1000 match in Montreal as a wildcard and likewise completed the yr ranked at a career-high rating of No. 18.
However earlier than Mboko pulled off a sensational Montreal run, she began the 2025 season competing on the ITF tournaments and gained 5 titles there within the opening three months of the yr.
After profitable 5 ITF titles and changing into a WTA champion in Montreal, the Canadian had a tough interval and misplaced 4 consecutive matches. Nonetheless, she nonetheless completed her breakout season on a excessive after profitable a WTA 250 match in Hong Kong.
Now, Mouratoglou, who coached Williams for a decade, believes that Mboko is primed for even larger issues.
Mouratoglou: Mboko killed it this yr… She is certainly the way forward for tennis
“I’ll begin with Victoria Mboko. She’s Canadian, she’s performed an unimaginable season. She was out of the highest 100. She killed it this yr. She gained a Masters 1000. She had some downs after that, as a result of out of the blue the stress turned too excessive. She arrived like a bomb within the tennis world and the WTA world. The standard of her sport, her bodily property, her persona. I imply, she has the entire bundle, and she or he’s positively the way forward for tennis. I’m tremendous joyful to see her arising so quick,” Mouratoglou defined.
Going into the US Open, Mboko did not disguise that she was concentrating on to turn out to be a Grand Slam champion at Flushing Meadows and she or he sounded very assured in her possibilities. However it did not occur after the Canadian misplaced to Barbora Krejcikova within the first spherical.
When Mboko kicks off her Australian Open marketing campaign in January, she can be making her debut at Melbourne Park.
