Watch every match of the SVNS World Series live and on-demand, exclusively on Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nThe Women set the tempo for a magic hour in the sweltering conditions after easing past Fiji 31-10.<\/p>\n
It was the Levi show early as Maddison crossed for the opener after excellent work from sister Teagan, one of the standouts of the weekend.<\/p>\n
The ruthless defending champions punished a lineout mistake shortly afterwards as Bienne Terita raced clear.<\/p>\n
Fiji reduced the margin before the break, but Levi\u2019s second start a wave of Australian points.<\/p>\n
Tia Hinds and Kaitlin Shave scored late to blow out the scoreline, with Hinds\u2019 solo effort set up by thumping defence from Teagan Levi to force the turnover.<\/p>\n
It set up another Final against their rival, the Black Ferns, who recovered from yesterday\u2019s shock defeat to the USA to beat Japan 31-5.<\/p>\n
For the Men, it was debutant Will Cartwright that stole the show, with the emergence of new stars becoming a theme of the weekend after Ethan McFarland\u2019s try-saving ankle tap to start the\u00a0tournament against Spain.<\/p>\n
Queenslander Cartwright scored both of the tries in the physical encounter after both teams couldn\u2019t be separated at the break.<\/p>\n
Cartwright\u2019s pace was a real difference-maker, stepping past two for the opener.<\/p>\n
The Aussies kept the pressure on and the Brothers product sealed the win with 60 seconds to go.<\/p>\n
They will face the Kiwis in the Final, who defeated Australia 21-17 in the group stages after the Aussies’ late comeback fell short.<\/p>\n
It took a sensational try after the siren to book New Zealand\u2019s place in the decider, Brady Rush the hero after the siren to take a 24-21 win over Fiji.<\/p>\n
Rush scored well into extra-time in a dynamic final play that saw Ilikimi Vunaki red-carded for a high shot in the build-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia have started on fire in the SVNS World Series season opening event in Dubai, with both the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,125979,40283,760,178643,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-318438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-australian-mens-sevens","11":"tag-australian-womens-sevens","12":"tag-rugby","13":"tag-sevens-world-series","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}