Victoria Mboko insists she is just like any other Gen Z teenager. She enjoys going out to local cafés and shopping at Sephora with her older sister. Her headphones are always playing Drake, SZA, The Weeknd, and Kendrick Lamar. She tries to squeeze in a TV series—short seasons, please—every once in a while, but she pretty much always ends up revisiting her comfort show, Modern Family .

There is, however, nothing ordinary about Mboko’s meteoric rise in the tennis world. A couple weeks ago, the 18-year-old Canadian—she’ll turn 19 on Tuesday—won her first WTA Tour title in Montréal, becoming the youngest player since Serena Williams in 1999 to defeat four Grand Slam champions in one tournament. After beginning the year ranked 333rd in the world, Mboko has surged to 24th and arrives in New Y

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