{"id":231399,"date":"2026-04-25T15:46:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibians-shine-at-itf-junior-tourney\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:46:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:46:34","slug":"namibians-shine-at-itf-junior-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibians-shine-at-itf-junior-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibians Shine At ITF Junior Tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>Namibian tennis players continued to shine at the International Tennis Federation J30 u18 junior tournament in Windhoek yesterday, with three players progressing to the quarterfinals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">In the girls singles Joanivia Bezuidenhout and Mari van Schalkwyk both beat seeded players to advance, while in the boys singles, Israel Dowie survived a tough battle to qualify for the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Bezuidenhout was in top form as she beat the seventh seeded Rutendo Mavhenyengwa of Zimbabwe 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604240686.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>Namibian tennis players continued to shine at the International Tennis Federation J30 u18 junior tournament in Windhoek yesterday, with three players progressing to the quarterfinals. In the girls singles Joanivia Bezuidenhout and Mari van Schalkwyk both beat seeded players to advance, while in the boys singles, Israel Dowie survived a tough battle to qualify for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231400,"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":[258,256,21662,9730,724,7974,257,11202,254,7021],"class_list":["post-231399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-itf","tag-junior","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibians","tag-news","tag-shine","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tourney"],"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\/231399","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=231399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}