{"id":174377,"date":"2025-08-25T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/174377\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:06:10","slug":"steve-johnson-makes-us-open-prediction-about-victoria-mboko-which-sam-querrey-completely-disagrees-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/174377\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Johnson makes US Open prediction about Victoria Mboko which Sam Querrey completely disagrees with"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victoria Mboko is one of the next top stars on the WTA Tour, and she\u2019s been handed a cracker of a first-round match at the US Open. <\/p>\n<p>Mboko will face <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/barbora-krejcikova\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barbora Krejcikova<\/a> in the first round, with the Canadian seeded at 22 for the tournament, which has got underway at Flushing Meadows. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/victoria-mboko-gives-latest-update-on-her-wrist-injury-ahead-of-the-us-open-starting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mboko has addressed her wrist injury<\/a> going into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/us-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Open<\/a> but it would appear that she will be fit and ready going into the match with the 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/wimbledon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wimbledon<\/a> champion. <\/p>\n<p>Lots of people in the world of tennis have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/canadian-open-tournament-director-predicts-where-victoria-mboko-will-be-ranked-this-time-next-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">making predictions about Mboko<\/a> and what she might achieve in the coming years on the tour. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/steve-johnson-states-if-he-believes-victoria-mboko-is-already-a-grand-slam-contender-after-her-canadian-open-title-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Johnson has previously predicted whether Mboko can win a Grand Slam<\/a> and now he\u2019s made an intriguing claim about the teenager ahead of her opening US Open match. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2228333966-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Victoria Mboko serves at the 2025 National Bank Open\" class=\"wp-image-122006\" \/>Photo by David Kirouac\/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesSteve Johnson and Sam Querrey disagree on Victoria Mboko<\/p>\n<p>Given the nature of the first round match and the tough nature of her opponent, the Nothing Major podcast went through the draw and gave some predictions. <\/p>\n<p>Johnson thinks Krejcikova will win against Mboko but Querrey doesn\u2019t agree, believing the Canadian will prevail against the Czech world number 61. <\/p>\n<p>Johnson said: \u201cI think she goes down first round. She has a tough first round against Barbora Krejcikova.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Querrey was adamant that his prediction would be wrong, counter-arguing that she would win easily, saying: \u201cNo! Mboko is winning that in straights! She will beat anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mboko has enjoyed solid 2025 whatever happens at the US Open<\/p>\n<p>For Mboko, the year 2025 has been about getting to grips with the WTA Tour, and she\u2019s taken every challenge in her stride. <\/p>\n<p>The player is already up to number 23 in the world rankings and is seeded at a Grand Slam event for the first time at Flushing Meadows. <\/p>\n<p>Mboko didn\u2019t actually qualify for Wimbledon, but after being given the opportunity to enter as a lucky loser, she managed to beat Magdalena Frech before losing to Hailey Baptiste in round two. <\/p>\n<p>Mboko has beaten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/coco-gauff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coco Gauff<\/a> on her way to the title in Montreal and that tournament alone should give her so much confidence going into the rest of the year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victoria Mboko is one of the next top stars on the WTA Tour, and she\u2019s been handed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":174378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[62,1464,67,132,68,10118,65515],"class_list":{"0":"post-174377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-us-open","14":"tag-victoria-mboko"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115089557699358770","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}