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
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.