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Post Info TOPIC: Week 46 - ITF ($10K) - Stellenbosch, South Africa Hard


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Week 46 - ITF ($10K) - Stellenbosch, South Africa Hard


Good start for Fran and Valeria Bhunu has her work cut out despite being the number 2 seed.

Top 100 16 yr old juniors are by definition under ranked compared to 21 yr olds who spent some time on tour building a rank so the 600 place difference in ranking is a sstatistical overstatement, I expect Fran to be competitive.

It looks like Fran is focusing early on transition to seniors with her junior ranking dipping a bit from July. An exciting start

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Pity Alice couldn't get that third counter and ranking this week. But she'd had pretty good initial main draws the last two weeks so can't really complain about a toughee. Hope that ranking does come soon.

Yes, Fran no doubt clearly already the capability of a much higher ranked player. Be interesting to see how she does against Bhuno.

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Yes.

Fran had a rather brisk loss last week in R1 to a completely unranked US qualifier (who might well be underranked herself, of course).

So it's not fair to expect clear easy victories.

And, yes, Alice can have no complaints about the draws - they can't all go your way.

It's poor Laura D who seems to have drawn the short straw.....



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Fran takes the first set 6-3

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The second seed wakes up and Fran loses the second set 2-6

Can she come back in the final set?

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No. Fran goes down 1-6 in the final set after such a great start

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R2: JONES, Francesca (GBR) Q 1181 lost to BHUNU, Valeria (ZIM) 2 497 6-3 2-6 1-6

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Laura D and her partner win their doubles 4-6 6-4 10-8
and are into the SF

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Young Julie and her partner just miss out 6-4 5-7 4-10

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Well done, Laura ! (and Eden d'O)

Taking out the second seeds and into the finals:

SF:

Eden D'OLIVEIRA (RSA) / Laura DEIGMAN (GBR) def. Kaitlyn CHRISTIAN (USA) / Chanel SIMMONDS (RSA) [2] 6-3 7-5

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Good consolation for a tough draw in the singles  - good luck tomorrow smile



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Final

Margarita LAZAREVA (RUS) / Erika VOGELSANG (NED) [1] def. Eden D'OLIVEIRA (RSA) / Laura DEIGMAN (GBR) 7-6(2) 6-1

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