Victoria Mboko set to break into Top 10 on WTA rankings after reaching Doha final

Victoria Mboko has made all kinds of breakthroughs since last summer, and now she’s secured another one—she’ll crack the Top 10 for the first time when the new rankings come out on Monday.

By winning her semifinal match at the WTA 1000 event in Doha on Friday night—defeating Jelena Ostapenko, 6-3, 6-2—she’s projected to rise from No. 13 to at least No. 10 after the tournament.

She could rise even higher should she go on to win the title.

"It's kind of crazy," Mboko said after the match. "I never expected something to happen so fast for me. Yeah, I just have been taking it day by day, tournament by tournament. Every tournament I enter, I want to do well. I don't really, I don't hold that much expectation of myself. It's not like when I enter a tournament I'm going to say I'm going to win it, but you always want to try your best.

"I think this came relatively fast, but it's a nice feeling. It's nice to see that, to have that milestone, to see that number. So, yeah, I'm pretty happy with that."

Mboko is set to become the fourth Canadian to break into the Top 10 in WTA rankings history, which dates back to 1975.

CANADIANS TO REACH WTA TOP 10 (since 1975):

• Carling Bassett-Seguso [Top 10 debut in 1985, career-high No. 8]
• Eugenie Bouchard [Top 10 debut in 2014, career-high No. 5]
• Bianca Andreescu [Top 10 debut in 2019, career-high No. 4]
• Victoria Mboko [Top 10 debut in 2026, career-high TBD]

Three Canadians have broken into the Top 10 over on the ATP rankings, which began in 1973—Milos Raonic in 2013, Denis Shapovalov in 2020 and Felix Auger-Aliassime in 2021. They reached career-highs of No. 3, No. 10 and No. 5, respectively.

Of all seven Canadians to break into the Top 10 in either ATP or WTA rankings history, the 19-year-old Mboko will be the third-youngest to do it, after Bassett-Seguso, who was 17, and Andreescu, who was a slightly younger 19. The other four were all in their early 20s.

Mboko’s Top 10 debut is just the latest chapter in her meteoric rise.

After starting 2025 ranked No. 333, and having been at No. 211 on this day a year ago, she broke into the Top 200 last March, the Top 100 last June, and—after her sensational run to the first WTA title of her career at the WTA 1000 event in Montreal last August—she burst into the Top 50 for the first time, soaring from No. 85 to No. 24.

She made her Top 20 debut last November after winning the second WTA title of her career in Hong Kong, and now, after reaching another WTA 1000 final in Doha, she’ll be Top 10.

Awaiting her in the final in the Qatari capital on Saturday will be one of two former Top 10 players, Karolina Muchova or Maria Sakkari, who played each other in the second semifinal on Friday.