By Chris Oddo | Wednesday 6 August 2025
Grand Slam Champions continue to rise to face the sensation of adolescents Victoria Lill in Montreal, and the baby continues to overthrow them.
For the third time in six games on the Omnium Banque National, Lundoco defeated a large former champion after she progressed in her daughters WTA’s final with a 1-6 7-5 7-6 (4) win over Elena Rybakina.
“It was an extraordinary match,” said Lundoko, who also defeated Sofia Kenin and Coco Guff on her way to the final, told the Montreal crowd. “I want to say thanks to all those who supported me tonight. It was electric, and I’m very happy – Oh my god!”
Lundoco encountered two hours and 45 minutes, being attacked by a set down and twice by a split in the final set, after she escaped a match point and finally pushed before seed No.9 into a Tiebreak, winning the last three points to close a place in the final, where either Clara Tauson or Naomi Osaka will wait.
Surviving survived despite earning only 35 percent of its second service points, thanks to a 72 percent first service and a very time game in time. With the return of Pinpoint, stellar defense and a lot of fraud she won six Rybakina’s service vacation while closing her second consecutive victory 20 and became the youngest woman to reach the final in Canada since Belinda Bencic in 2015.
She is also the only Canadian woman who has ever defeated three former Slam champions in the same event in the history of the open era.
“It was very difficult, Elena is a very good player, but everything can happen,” Lundoko said.
The victory was not without disaster.
Lurko dropped a decline in the second match of the final set, and examined the right hand after the third match, but she was able to play through the pain to obtain the victory against the woman who overturned her from Washington’s draw, DC last week.
“Unfortunately I fell,” Said Roko. “But everyone was supporting me and pushing me.”
A tremendous attempt by a young woman who is playing in her seventh equation of the main WTA, and only her third at the WTA 1000 level.
Sorted 85 at the beginning of the week, Lill is up to 34 in the direct WTA rankings at the moment. It was out of the first 300 when the season began, but 41 wins and only eight losses at all levels have pushed the former Little Bound No.6 in its current voice.
A Royale Battle
It was tense from the beginning to the end against Rybakina, who gathered from a split at 5-5 in the second set, just two games from the victory. But Roko won eight of the last ten points of the set to force a decision maker.
In the third, Rybakina was again in the driver’s set, leading 4-2 and 5-3 with rest, but she failed to turn a match point while serving at 5-4 and broke down.
After retiring to the next match, she broke down in love by Lundoco and followed a tie.
Canadian saved the best for the last-a line foreword that went for a winner and a 5-4 lead at the switch. Two points later she knew in disbelief, another champion of Grand Slam, another victim of a raw, talented growing phenomenon.
