{"id":226140,"date":"2026-03-06T01:16:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-tinashe-tennis-promising-star\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T01:16:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:16:57","slug":"botswana-tinashe-tennis-promising-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-tinashe-tennis-promising-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Tinashe Tennis Promising Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Gaborone \u2014 Tennis continues to showcase a growing pool of talented young players emerging from its development programmes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">The sport&#8217;s development structure has proven effective, with many players introduced to the game as early as four-years-old. This is largely due to the support of parents and the efforts of the Botswana Tennis Association (BTA), which has created a conducive platform for young talent to thrive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">One rising player proving to be a formidable opponent is Tinashe Phatshwane, born&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603050651.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 Tennis continues to showcase a growing pool of talented young players emerging from its development programmes. The sport&#8217;s development structure has proven effective, with many players introduced to the game as early as four-years-old. This is largely due to the support of parents and the efforts of the Botswana Tennis Association (BTA), which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226141,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,257,6936,254,10128,7678,21346],"class_list":["post-226140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-news","tag-promising","tag-south-africa-today","tag-star","tag-tennis","tag-tinashe"],"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\/226140","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=226140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}