The new feeling of female tennis in Canada deserved its place in the semi-finals by winning the last six games in the second set after losing the first two.
After the final point, a result of a stroke of his rival which flew over the bottom line after 77 minutes of action, Mboko simply placed his left hand on his hip and sketched a smile.
On Wednesday evening, she will have an appointment with another big female tennis size, Elena Rybakina, who won the other quarter-finish match on Marta Kostyuk Marta Kostyuk in the second round.
A bit like Saturday against Coco Gauff, Mboko will then have the opportunity to avenge a defeat, that which Rybakina made him undergo on July 23 by a score of 6-3, 7-5 in Washington.
“I am so excited to be in the semi-finals. Thank you for your support. It’s unreal, “Mboko told spectators during a brief interview on the court.
This victory allowed Mboko to engrave his name in the annals of Canadian omnium, in various ways.
Since 1970, Mboko has been the second Canadian to reach the semi-finals of the tournament after Bianca Andreescu in 2019.
At 18 and 336 days old, Mboko is the youngest Canadian player in the professional era to go to the semi-finals with Canadian omnium.
Finally, she repeated the exploits of Monica Seles (1995) and Simona Halep (2015) who, like Mboko, had qualified in the semi-final after obtaining organizers of organizers at the Canadian omnium.
A threatened sequence
Mboko presented himself in the strong match of a 13 game sequence without losing his service, since the fourth game of the second round of his match against Marie Bouzkova last Thursday.
Bouzas Maneiro put this sequence to the test from the initial game of the match, but the Canadian reacted with authority by scoring a winning blow to erase a broken ball, before adding the following two points.
Halfway through the set, Mboko and Bouzas Maneiro began to be tested deep in their bowels.
At the fifth game, which was going to require 14 points, Bouzas Maneiro gave himself two broom chances at 15-40.
Two erratic straight strokes of the Spanish, the first too long, the second in the net, allowed Mboko to breathe and, possibly, to win the game.
Then, at the next game, it was Mboko who placed his rival in the cables by winning the first three points in the service of the Spanish. She reacted like a big one by delighting the following five points.
After an easy game at his service, Mboko again torn the first three points from the Bouzas Maneiro service, during the eighth game. This time, Mboko won the following point, when Bouzas Maneiro sent a forehand in the net.
The Canadian had just taken the first break of the evening and to give herself an advance of 5-3, with the chance to serve for the Channel.
This is however the moment that the Spanish chose to end the Mboko invincibility sequence at its service, which then amounted to 17 games without broken. Faced with a score of 15-40, Mboko committed a double fault, bringing the first set to equal service.
Not the type to be put down, Mboko found the means, in turn, to give himself a chance of breakage from the next game.
Bouzas Maneiro then tried a forehand in decreed which ended up in the double corridor, providing the first set to the Canadian after about 45 minutes of action.
Obviously inflated to block, Mboko started the second set in the service by collecting the first two points of the initial game. But she lost the next four points, then the next game, again after deserving the first two points.
But Mboko would prove that she too is able to erase deficits.