The only representative of Burundi on the WTA tour!

Ajla Tomljanovic arrives in Rabat with a clear status and a simple mission: manage. The 33-year-old Australian, a semifinalist here last year, knows this court and knows what’s expected of her against a player ranked 266th in the world. Coached by Alessandro Bega, she has the weapons to dictate the rallies on this fast, dry clay at the Club des Cheminots. But her 2026 clay season remains mixed, with 5 wins and 7 losses, and Tomljanovic is no longer the kind of player who crushes weaker opponents in twenty minutes. She manages, she controls, she takes her breaks when they come.

On the other side, Sada Nahimana hasn’t come here to make up the numbers. The 24-year-old Burundian is the pride of a continent that can count its WTA-level representatives on the fingers of one hand, and she knows it. On this court she knows from her second-round appearance last year, she can hold the baseline and force long rallies. She won’t win this match, but between a player who pushes and another who manages, the final score is far more likely to look like a clean win than a massacre.