{"id":222794,"date":"2026-02-04T12:12:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-face-huge-task-against-estonia\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:12:34","slug":"namibia-face-huge-task-against-estonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-face-huge-task-against-estonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia Face Huge Task Against Estonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>Namibia face a huge task when they take on Estonia in a Davis Cup World Group II play-off match in Windhoek this weekend.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Namibia clinched the spot when they won the Davis Cup Africa Group III tournament in Harare last year after narrowly beating Senegal and Nigeria to the post, but they can expect much tougher opposition against Estonia, who are ranked 62nd in the world, compared to Namibia&#8217;s 71st place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Furthermore, Estonia&#8217;s top players are ranked much higher than their Namibian counterparts,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602040267.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia face a huge task when they take on Estonia in a Davis Cup World Group II play-off match in Windhoek this weekend. Namibia clinched the spot when they won the Davis Cup Africa Group III tournament in Harare last year after narrowly beating Senegal and Nigeria to the post, but they can expect much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222795,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,20502,7127,8409,4706,724,257,254,11780],"class_list":["post-222794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-estonia","tag-face","tag-huge","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-task"],"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\/222794","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=222794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}