Canada’s Victoria Mboko was victorious in her Grand Slam debut at the French Open.
Mboko upset No. 45 Lulu Sun of New Zealand 6-1, 7-6 (4) during first-round action on Sunday.
The 18-year-old from Toronto fired seven aces and won 80 per cent of points on first serve while converting two of three break-point attempts.
Mboko has been rolling on clay courts, securing three consecutive victories in qualifying to book a spot in her first major tournament.
She will play Germany’s Eva Lys in the second round on Wednesday.
Mboko is one of five Canadians in singles at Roland-Garros, joining Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., in the women’s draw, and Félix Auger-Aliassime, Gabriel Diallo and Denis Shapovalov on the men’s side.
Fernandez, ranked 27th in the world, opens against No. 34 Olga Danilovic of Serbia.
Shapovalov, ranked 27th on the men’s side, opens against No. 48 Pedro Martinez of Spain. No. 29 Auger-Aliassime faces No. 39 Matteo Arnaldi of Italy, and Diallo, ranked 53rd, faces No. 18 Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina.
Auger-Aliassime’s French Open tune-up came to an end Friday with a 6-1, 6-4 loss to Andrey Rublev in the semifinals of the Hamburg Open. The loss dropped Auger-Aliassime’s record against the Russian to 1-7.
Still, getting in four competitive matches on clay at the ATP 500 event will help after Auger-Aliassime pulled out of the Italian Open earlier this month with a sore back.
Auger-Aliassime’s three wins in Hamburg were his first on clay this season. He hadn’t won on tour since a second-round victory in Miami back in March.
Fernandez and Diallo will also compete in doubles, while Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski teams up with New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe in women’s doubles.
–with files from the Canadian Press