She faced Naomi Osaka for the chance to win a first WTA title, the four-time grand slam champion having booked her place in a WTA final for the first time since Miami in 2022. Osaka, the first Japanese player to reach the final at the Canadian Open and had something to prove after a lean period in her own career.

Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko overcame a slow start and swollen right wrist to beat Japanese star Naomi Osaka.

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