Jean-Claude Gasigwa (8 July 1983
– 8 January 2015) was a
Rwanda
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n professional
tennis player
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. He was a member of the
Rwanda Davis Cup team before his death in 2015.
He won the Kenya Open in 2008, Tanzania Open in 2011 and Uganda Open in 2009, 2012 and 2013.
Death
Gasigwa collapsed and died while training at the
Cercle Sportif de Kigali.
He was 31.
References
1983 births
2015 deaths
Rwandan male tennis players
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