{"id":249959,"date":"2026-11-12T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-hosts-wtt-youth-contender-series\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T09:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T07:00:48","slug":"botswana-hosts-wtt-youth-contender-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-hosts-wtt-youth-contender-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Hosts WTT Youth Contender Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Gaborone \u2014 The Botswana Table Tennis Association (BTTA) is hosting the World Table Tennis (WTT) Youth Contender Series Gaborone 2026, which started yesterday until Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The competition has attracted entries from the host, Botswana, Sri Lanka, India, Croatia, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Namibia, eSwatini, Zimbabwe and Lesotho.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">According to BTTA publicity secretary and tournament media liaison officer, Tshegofatso Malepa Botswana would field a 30-member squad comprising 16 boys and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611110599.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 The Botswana Table Tennis Association (BTTA) is hosting the World Table Tennis (WTT) Youth Contender Series Gaborone 2026, which started yesterday until Saturday. The competition has attracted entries from the host, Botswana, Sri Lanka, India, Croatia, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Namibia, eSwatini, Zimbabwe and Lesotho. According to BTTA publicity secretary and tournament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":249960,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,40617,6574,257,6761,254,40616,6276],"class_list":["post-249959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-contender","tag-hosts","tag-news","tag-series","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wtt","tag-youth"],"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\/249959","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=249959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}