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Michael D


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Tiff is the second seed this week but her first round draw is NOT a good one, since Sada Nahimana was last week's losing finalist. Nahimana also has an interesting back story, coming from Burundi, a still very conflict ridden country. But she was part of a small group of players there who was initially encouraged, coached and equipped by a personal friend who was based there, and was responsible for their early development. I believe she is based out of Kenya now, and has more official backing, though I'm not up with the current details of her support. Nahimana has played in all the junior grand slam tournaments this year. Last week she was 8th seed and had several close matches until the final, when she did lose relatively easily in the final to the top seed, Mahak Jain, who also beat Tiff easily in the QF. It will likely be a much more competitive match for Tiff in her first round than she will have hoped for. Jain is again top seed this week.

R32: Tiffany WILLIAM (GBR) [2] vs Sada NAHIMANA (BDI) UNR Born 2001 (JCH:12 July 19)



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Tiffany and Paulina Jastrzebska (POL), who won the doubles title last week as top seeds, are going top seeds this week.

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Michael's fears seem to come true as Tiff lost the first set 0-6

but then won the second 6-4 and is up 2-0 in the deciding set.

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And broken now whilst serving for the match, but Tiff still has a break in hand in the 3rd set.

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From 5-1 to 5-4 Tiff trying to serve for the match ........ again

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Sigh! 5-5

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Into a tiebreak to decide the match

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She loses the TB 1-7

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Wow, well all credit to Sada, that's for sure. At *5-2 I must admit I thought Tiff had the match wrapped up in the 3rd set.

R32: Tiffany WILLIAM (GBR) [2] lost to Sada NAHIMANA (BDI) UNR Born 2001 (JCH:12 July 19) 0-6 6-4 6-7(1)



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Doubles draw

L16:- Paulina JASTRZEBSKA (POL) / Tiffany WILLIAM (GBR) [1] BYE

QF:- Paulina JASTRZEBSKA / Tiffany WILLIAM [1] CR1601 (701+900) v ROSELIDA ASUMWA / Angella OKUTOYI (UNR+UNR) (both born 2004 !)



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Looks like Tiff and Paulina have won by W/O

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Coup Droit wrote:

Looks like Tiff and Paulina have won by W/O

 Probably a wise decision by their young opponents !

Tiff and Paulina will play the winners of the match scheduled after theirs - which is on court now.



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Nahimana marches on. SHe has now taken out the 5th seed in the QF 6-2 6-3. She will finally get a ranking next week, and the week after if she reaches the final here she will be on the same number of points as Tiffany - 18. I expect her to go higher a little more quickly. Good luck to her, as said in the first post, she is a real good news story from a country that is very short of such.

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Tiff+ lose their dubs SF, 4-6 0-6

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Coup Droit wrote:

Tiff+ lose their dubs SF, 4-6 0-6

 Yes, I'm surprised they played it actually because Paulina retired after losing the first set of her singles match to Fiona Codino, who I thought she would beat. So I thought she might well withdraw from their doubles, and it would certainly be appear that she was hampered in the match. A shame after their winning week last week.



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