Elena Rybakina has reacted to her agonising defeat to Victoria Mboko in a thrilling semi-final at the 2025 Canadian Open.<\/p>\n
The world No 12 fell 6-1, 5-7, 6-7(4) to 18-year-old Canadian wildcard Mboko in a contest lasting two hours and 45 minutes in Montreal<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the deciding set,\u00a0Rybakina<\/a>\u00a0served for the match twice \u2014 at 5-4 and 6-5 \u2014 and she held a match point at 40-30 in the first of those two games.<\/p>\n The 2022 Wimbledon champion was vying for her second title of the season after she won the clay-court WTA 500 tournament in Strasbourg in May. She has previously won two WTA 1000 titles, which came in Indian Wells and Rome in 2023.<\/p>\n Rybakina had defeated Hailey Baptiste, Jacqueline Cristian, Dayana Yastremska and Marta Kostyuk to reach the last four in Montreal.<\/p>\n After losing to Mboko<\/a>,\u00a0Rybakina\u00a0remained positive about her run despite her difficult exit.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, it was tough match, but overall I think successful week for me. Slowly getting better on the court, so yeah,\u201d she assessed.<\/p>\n Venus Williams\u2019 former coach reveals the only reason she is still playing as he makes a prediction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Coco Gauff told exactly how her serving issues could be solved \u2018in an hour\u2019 by legendary coach<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The 26-year-old Kazakh also admitted that the heavy crowd support for home favourite Mboko was challenging to deal with.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, that wasn\u2019t nice, of course,\u201d Rybakina said.<\/p>\n \u201cI played in a lot of situations where the crowd was supporting the [other] player, but I would say that here it was pretty tough from very beginning.<\/p>\n \u201cI already felt it from the first game we played, and especially when it\u2019s in between the serves.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is what it is. This is something I was kind of expecting, and definitely it didn\u2019t depend anyhow on my serve or in the mistakes I did or wrong choices. It was obvious that the crowd is going to cheer for their player.\u201d<\/p>\n Davide Sanguinetti, who started coaching Rybakina\u00a0in February 2025, set the former world No 3 an ambitious ranking target in a recent interview with SuperTennis.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the moment, I\u2019m a sort of ferryman: I joined her team in February, without any work behind me,\u201d the Italian said.<\/p>\n \u201cShe explained to me more or less what she had done, and I asked her for two years of collaboration because I have my own working method: in the first year I would like to maintain the status quo, maybe finish at number 6 in the rankings, and next year I would like to take her to number one in the world: she has all the potential.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Naomi Osaka continues rankings surge as she sets up Canadian Open final with Victoria Mboko<\/a> The post Elena Rybakina makes honest \u2018wasn\u2019t nice\u2019 admission after Victoria Mboko Canadian Open loss<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Elena Rybakina has reacted to her agonising defeat to Victoria Mboko in a thrilling semi-final at the 2025 Canadian Open. The world No 12 fell 6-1, 5-7, 6-7(4) to 18-year-old Canadian wildcard Mboko in a contest lasting two hours and 45 minutes in Montreal. In the deciding set,\u00a0Rybakina\u00a0served for the match twice \u2014 at 5-4 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}WTA Tour News<\/h2>\n
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