National senior netball team coach Mary Waya said her team will be ready to give a better performance in their next match of the World Netball African Regional qualifiers.

Namibia is in pool A, alongside host nation South Africa, Botswana, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

In their opening match of the qualifiers for the Cape Town 2023 Netball World Cup, at the University of Pretoria (Tuks) Rembrandt Hall on Sunday, Namibia beat Tanzania 54-40 but team coach Waya said the performance in their opening match is not what she expected.

“I am happy that we won our opening match at the competition but this is not the way I wanted to start the competition because we made several unforced errors, which we have taken note of,” she said.

The coach added that all the mistakes made in the game against Tanzania must be improved on when the team steps onto the court on Monday evening.

“The shooting and handling percentage is not what I wanted but we are going to work on our mistakes and come back better,” said Waya, adding that she allowed every player to play for them to remove the fear of competing in a match and she expects every player to have better games when they play their next matches.

The coach also said that when they take on South Africa on Monday at 18h00, their focus will be on their goals of qualifying for the world cup.

Meanwhile vice-captain of the team and player of the match in their opening game against Tanzania, Anna Kaspar, said they are going to take the next match as hard as it comes.

“Our confidence is 95 per cent and the five per cent we still don’t know what will happen but we are positive of making it through the group stages. We will give it our all when in the court,” Kaspar said.

Source: The Namibian Press Agency