{"id":223127,"date":"2026-02-08T00:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-raguin-eyes-last-16-at-australian-junior-open\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T00:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:16:07","slug":"botswana-raguin-eyes-last-16-at-australian-junior-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-raguin-eyes-last-16-at-australian-junior-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Raguin Eyes Last 16 At Australian Junior Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Gaborone \u2014 Botswana&#8217;s on form and rising tennis sensation, Ntungamili Raguin is determined to break barriers and introduce a new name to the world of tennis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Despite the battle ahead, Raguin is determined to march to the last 16 of the tournament as he faces world no. 22, Gavin Goode of USA at the Australian Junior Open today. Goode is also the tournament seed number 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nonetheless, is betting on his superb performance that saw him win a hard fought match, defeating world no. 25, Dimitar&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601270116.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&#8217;s on form and rising tennis sensation, Ntungamili Raguin is determined to break barriers and introduce a new name to the world of tennis. Despite the battle ahead, Raguin is determined to march to the last 16 of the tournament as he faces world no. 22, Gavin Goode of USA at the Australian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223128,"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":[258,256,3955,4718,2462,4342,9730,257,5983,52895,254],"class_list":["post-223127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-australian","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-eyes","tag-junior","tag-news","tag-open","tag-raguin","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\/223127","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=223127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}