Overview

• The 18-year-old Canadian surged into the top 25 after winning Montreal, where she beat Sofia Kenin, Coco Gauff, Elena Rybakina and Naomi Osaka.
• She opens Monday at 11 a.m. ET on Louis Armstrong Stadium for her first US Open main-draw match as a seeded player.
• Managing a wrist issue sustained in Montreal, Mboko skipped Cincinnati and Cleveland, practiced in New York with tape, and said it is feeling a lot better.
• Osaka said she privately apologized for omitting congratulations in Montreal, described feeling terrible and shame, and shared that Mboko told her she hadn’t really noticed.
• Andy Roddick publicly backed Osaka’s prospects, citing her Slam conversion pattern and predicting she could reach the fourth round, as Osaka draws Greet Minnen in round one.