{"id":38393,"date":"2026-01-31T03:09:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/england-beaten-52-48-by-south-africa-in-opening-game-of-the-three-match-series\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T03:09:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:09:43","slug":"england-beaten-52-48-by-south-africa-in-opening-game-of-the-three-match-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/england-beaten-52-48-by-south-africa-in-opening-game-of-the-three-match-series\/","title":{"rendered":"England beaten 52-48 by South Africa in opening game of the three-match series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The South African defence were punishing us for that so we just need to be stronger in terms of the setups and the balls that we&#8217;re trying to take.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams did, however, feel England showed &#8220;tenacity&#8221; after half-time, adding: &#8220;I&#8217;m so proud of my girls in the way that they kept fighting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We need a big response now to come back and win the double header at the weekend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both England and South Africa are building towards this summer&#8217;s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, where the two sides are in the same six-team pool. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jess Thirlby&#8217;s England are fourth in the world rankings, with South Africa close behind in fifth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They next face each other on Saturday at 15:00 GMT, before playing the final game in the series on Sunday at 14:00.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/netball\/articles\/c7v0y093pdpo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The South African defence were punishing us for that so we just need to be stronger in terms of the setups and the balls that we&#8217;re trying to take.&#8221; Williams did, however, feel England showed &#8220;tenacity&#8221; after half-time, adding: &#8220;I&#8217;m so proud of my girls in the way that they kept fighting. &#8220;We need a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38395,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38393\/revisions\/38395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}