Vicky Mboko will always remember how it sounded after winning championship point in Montreal.

"That's the loudest I've ever heard a stadium of people, I think," she told TSN late Thursday night. "That was such a surreal experience and, for me to be in the centre of it and the spotlight, honestly, I would have never believed that I was going to end up in this exact moment. It’s just amazing.”

The teenager from Toronto authored an incredible story in becoming the youngest ever Canadian to win the singles title at the country's biggest event, now called the National Bank Open.

Mboko, who turns 19 later this month, is only the third Canadian to do it in the Open era, joining an exclusive club with Bianca Andreescu (2019) and Faye Urban (1969).

Mboko beat four Grand Slam champions during an unlikely march to the title. She is the second youngest player to do that in one tournament in the Open era, older only than Serena Williams, who achieved the feat while winning her first major at age 17 at the 1999 US Open.

Mboko defeated 2020 Australian Open winner Sofia Kenin, two-time Grand Slam champion Coco Gauff and 2022 Wimbledon winner Elena Rybakina before upsetting four-time major titlist Naomi Osaka in the final.

"Vicky has no limits," said Sylvain Bruneau, who coached Andreescu to the Toronto title in 2019 and the US Open soon after that. "There's no limits mentally. There's no limits physically. She's an unbelievable athlete. And she's got the game of the future. She can play offence. She can counter. She can play defence. She's the full package."

Tennis Canada's head of women's tennis Noëlle van Lottum, who served as a support coach beside regular coach Nathalie Tauziat during the Montreal tournament, describes Mboko's style of play as a combination of Serena Williams and World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka.

"She's a very aggressive player," van Lottum said after Mboko's quarterfinal win. "She can hit very hard. She's been working on the length of her shots, and it's very heavy. She has a huge serve. She plays a little bit like Serena, a combination between Serena and [World No. 1 Aryna] Sabalenka, but of course she's still very young and........

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