Overview

• Mboko earned the US Open seed after winning the Canadian Open from a wildcard, beating Sofia Kenin, Coco Gauff, Elena Rybakina and Naomi Osaka for her first WTA title.
• Her ranking surged from No. 333 in January to a career-high No. 24 following Montreal, securing direct entry to Flushing Meadows.
• She will be the No. 22 seed after withdrawals by higher-ranked Paula Badosa and Qinwen Zheng.
• Mboko and her team skipped the Cincinnati Open to manage a wrist issue that surfaced late in Montreal.
• Mats Wilander highlighted her "mind and movement" as defining strengths, while Mboko called being seeded in New York "insane" in a recent interview.