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Of the 15 African players who began the competition, only Algeria’s Tania Morice and Egypt’s Abdelmalk Elsayed remain in contention.
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Of the 15 African players who began the competition, only Algeria’s Tania Morice and Egypt’s Abdelmalk Elsayed remain in contention.

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