{"id":250044,"date":"2026-11-12T23:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-building-a-superstar-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T23:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T21:30:08","slug":"botswana-building-a-superstar-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-building-a-superstar-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Building a Superstar &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Reaching a career-high junior world ranking of No. 21 at just 17 years old is a historic milestone for Botswana tennis, but the father and manager of prodigy Ntungamili Raguin insists that talent alone cannot bridge the gap to the grueling senior ATP Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Responding to questions asked by this publications this week on the steep structural hurdles confronting young athletes globally, he outlined a patient, strategic development roadmap as his son enters his final year of junior eligibility in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611120305.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>Reaching a career-high junior world ranking of No. 21 at just 17 years old is a historic milestone for Botswana tennis, but the father and manager of prodigy Ntungamili Raguin insists that talent alone cannot bridge the gap to the grueling senior ATP Tour. Responding to questions asked by this publications this week on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":250045,"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":[258,256,42655,4718,2462,6797,257,254,24863],"class_list":["post-250044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-building","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-superstar"],"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\/250044","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=250044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}