{"id":222159,"date":"2026-01-28T23:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-bta-expresses-delight-at-raguins-incredible-run\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T23:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:52:20","slug":"botswana-bta-expresses-delight-at-raguins-incredible-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-bta-expresses-delight-at-raguins-incredible-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: BTA Expresses Delight At Raguin&#8217;s Incredible Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Gaborone \u2014 Botswana Tennis Association (BTA) vice president Nonofo Othusitse has expressed the association&#8217;s delight at Ntungamili Raguin&#8217;s historic achievement at the Australian Open Junior Championships 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">&#8220;This is a performance exceeding all expectations. We are in awe of Ntungamili&#8217;s incredible displays at his maiden Grand Slam,&#8221; Othusitse said of Raguin&#8217;s fairytale run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;With this performance, his life has completely changed, and he has shone a light not only on Botswana but on Africa as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601280290.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 Botswana Tennis Association (BTA) vice president Nonofo Othusitse has expressed the association&#8217;s delight at Ntungamili Raguin&#8217;s historic achievement at the Australian Open Junior Championships 2026. &#8220;This is a performance exceeding all expectations. We are in awe of Ntungamili&#8217;s incredible displays at his maiden Grand Slam,&#8221; Othusitse said of Raguin&#8217;s fairytale run. &#8220;With this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,17852,6838,11664,25362,257,53517,7228,254],"class_list":["post-222159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-bta","tag-delight","tag-expresses","tag-incredible","tag-news","tag-raguins","tag-run","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}