Victoria Mboko leads the Canadian contingen …

The Tennis star on the increase Victoria Mboko will have to face the two -time winner of the Grand Slam Barbora Krejcikova in the opening round of the US Open.

In the meantime, the Canadian companions Leylah Fernandez and Felix Auger-Aliassime received favorable matches in the first round in Thursday’s draw for the last Grand Slam of the season.

Mboko, who performs 19 Tuesday, enters the large Hardcourt tournament as a high -level Canadian, sowed the 22nd in the female draw.

Toronto’s teenager is coming out of his first win of the WTA tournament at the National Bank Open in Montreal. He published victories on the best Coco Gauff seed, the world n. 10 Elena Rybakina and the four -time winner of the Grand Slam Naomi Osaka.

He will probably receive another rigid test from Krejcikova.

The 29 -year -old from Czechia enters the United States Open with a world ranking of n. 61 and it is not far from being one of the best players of the WTA tour. Has reached n. 2 in the world on February 28, 2022 and his eight career titles include victories at the Open of France and Wimbledon of 2021 in 2024.

Elsewhere, Fernandez and Auger-Aliassime will both face a qualifier in the first round.

Fernandez, the second classified by Flushing Meadows in 2021, sown 31 in the female draw and is enjoying a highly in high season that includes a victory at Citi Open last month in Washington, DC

Auger-aliassime was a semi-finalist from the United States in 2021, but was eliminated in the first round of the last two events. He won two titles this year and is coming out of the quarter -finals at the beginning of this month at the Cincinnati Open in Masters.

Denis Shapovalov, the 27th male seed of Richmond Hill, Ontario, opens against Marton Fucsovics of Hungary, while the 31st seed Gabriel Diallo di Montreal faces Damir Dzumhur of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Shapovalov, who is also experiencing a rebound season with two titles in 2025, is trying to improve his release in the first round at the US Open last year. He made the quarter -finals in 2020 as part of a series of six years of progress at least in the third round.

Shapovalov and Fucsovics have divided four previous meetings, with the Canadian victory more recently at the Belgrade Open last year.

Diallo went to the third round in his debut with last year’s main-step.

The 23 -year -old six feet, who published his first career victory this year at Libema Open in the Netherlands, is facing Dzumhur for the first time.

Vancouver’s Rebecca Marino took a step forward at a women’s mooring on Thursday on Thursday with a 6-1, 2-6, 6-1 victory over Japan. Marino will play in the third and last round of qualifications on Friday.

In the meantime, Toronto’s guardian Cadence has been expelled from the qualification action of the second round with a loss of 6-4, 6-4 against the Veronika Erjavec of Slovenia. Carol Zhao by Richmond Hill suffered the same fate with a defeat for 6-1, 6-4 at the hands of Lucrezia Stefanini Italiana.

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