Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko is just one win away from her first Grand Slam main draw after an emphatic 6-3, 6-2 defeat of Kathinka Von Deichmann in the second round of Roland Garros qualifying.
Mboko, 18, is coming off a second-round run as a qualifier in Rome — where she stretched Coco Gauff to three sets — and her first WTA 125 final in Parma. She has brought that form to her first major qualifying event, where she has yet to lose a set. No. 122-ranked Mboko fired 38 winners against Von Deichmann, and converted six of her seven break point opportunities, dealing with the Liechtensteiner’s guile, variety and one-handed backhand with aplomb. Her season record is now 39-5.
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