Newcomer
Sada Nahimana from Burundi has had a smooth sail into the final of the
women's singles of the first leg of 2019 Lagos Open Tennis Championship,
which is ongoing at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, Onikan.
Eighteen
years old Nahimana defeated Fanny Oslund, a Swedish star, in straight
set of 6-3,6-1 in the semi final decided on Sunday.
Nahimana,
the right-handed (two-handed backhand) player, will now face Brazilian
Laura Pigozzi in Monday's final. Pigozzi beat Indian Riya Bhatia in
another straight set of 6-2,6-2.
Interestingly,
the Burundian star, Nahimana is coming to Lagos for the first time and
she has shown since her first match of the main draws of the ITF World
Tour that she meant business traveling down to Lagos, the Centre of
Excellence.
Nahimana is
well travelled having played at the junior tournaments of major grand
slams. She played to the first round stage of the Australian Open Juinor
2019, so also was French Open 2019Junior where she played in the second
round.
In 2018, she played in the second round of the Wimbledon Open Juinor and first round of US Open Juinor of that year.
Meanwhile,
Frenchman Calvin Hemery defeated Zimbabwean Takanyi Garanganga 6-4 6-0
to reach the men's singles final. Hemery will play Setkic Aldin from BIH
who defeated Pichler David from Bosnia and Herzegovina
6-2,5-7,6-3 in another semi final.
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