{"id":264241,"date":"2026-01-29T20:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/264241\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T20:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:48:09","slug":"england-beaten-52-48-by-south-africa-in-opening-game-of-the-three-match-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/264241\/","title":{"rendered":"England beaten 52-48 by South Africa in opening game of the three-match series"},"content":{"rendered":"<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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The South African defence were punishing us for that so we just need to be stronger in terms&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-264241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}