After nearly two weeks of improbable wins, Victoria Mboko meets four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka in the Montreal final (6 p.m. ET). Here's why both players can win.

That is definitely not the case with Thursday’s Montreal final between Osaka and Mboko. They’re both unseeded, but at this point that’s a technicality. Everyone has heard of Osaka, and the fans up north care a lot about their countrywoman Mboko—even if few of them knew who the suburban-Toronto teenager was before last week.