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Namibia’s Israel Dowie got off to a great start at the International Tennis Federation U18 J30 tournament in Windhoek yesterday with an impressive 6-1, 6-0 victory against Lukas Calitz of South Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n Dowie gave a powerful performance with strong serves and groundstrokes to wear his opponent down and clinch a place in the second round of the competition, where he will face Jean Joubert of South Africa, who beat Henrik Aaman of Norway 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.<\/p>\n Dowie, who is only 15 years old, is one of…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Namibia’s Israel Dowie got off to a great start at the International Tennis Federation U18 J30 tournament in Windhoek yesterday with an impressive 6-1, 6-0 victory against Lukas Calitz of South Africa. Dowie gave a powerful performance with strong serves and groundstrokes to wear his opponent down and clinch a place in the second round […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231044,"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":[258,256,54230,8273,4706,724,257,254,7138],"class_list":["post-231043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dowie","tag-great","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-start"],"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\/231043","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=231043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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