Osaka has made progress since returning in last year's Australian Open. She won two matches in both the Australian Open and Wimbledon this year, has earned $725,727 in prize money and reached the No. 49 spot in the WTA rankings, with a higher ranking likely on the way by making the final.

Since the introduction of the format in 1990, Victoria Mboko became just the second Canadian to win a title at a Tier 1/WTA-1000 event, after Bianca Andreescu

Wednesday night at the Canadian Open in Montreal, Osaka, the four-time Grand Slam champion who hasn’t won a tournament since the Australian Open in 2021, had her way with Clara Tauson of Denmark early and outslugged her late to win 6-2, 7-6 (7) to make her first final of a tour event since January in New Zealand.