Watch the 2025-2026 HSBC SVNS Series live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nThey welcome back Bienne Terita, beginning the three-event World Championship at the home of the World Series.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Men have made a late change, calling in Ethan McFarland to replace Jayden Blake (quad).<\/p>\n
They also started with a win, defeating Kenya and the USA to set up a clash with New Zealand (3:47 pm)<\/p>\n
Follow a recap of all the action, game by game, below:<\/p>\n
Australia Men 38 v USA Men 5<\/p>\n
Australia have completed a perfect day one with a 38-5 victory over the USA,<\/p>\n
The Aussies came out firing as Aden Ekanayake started the first half onslaught, with tries to James Turner and Maurice Longbottom giving them a 19-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Turner\u2019s second extended the advantage before half-time, with the Americans getting on the board to start the second half.<\/p>\n
Dietrich Roache put the game out of reach with a long range effort after fierce defence forced the turnover, with Wallace Charlie putting the icing on the cake.<\/p>\n
Australia Men 14 v Kenya Men 5<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s Men’s side has started their Hong Kong campaign with a 14-5 win over Kenya.<\/p>\n
Kenya pushed the Aussies in a tense 14-minute affair, denied the opening try before Josh and James Turner crossed before half-time.<\/p>\n
Kenya got on the board to start the second half, but the Australians were good enough to close out the win.<\/p>\n
Australia Women 34 v Great Britain Women 7<\/p>\n
The Australian Women’s side ended day one of their campaign with a 34-7 win over Great Britain.<\/p>\n
Maddison Levi scored twice in the first half, reaching 50 tries for the season and tied second overall on the World Series (256), equalling Portia Woodman-Wickliffe.<\/p>\n
Fellow try-scoring freak Faith Nathan added her own double in the second half, with Bienne Terita and Kaitlin Shave scoring for the second game in a row in the comprehensive win.<\/p>\n
Australia Women 33 v South Africa Women 0<\/p>\n
Australia have started their Hong Kong campaign with a comfortable 33-0 win over South Africa.<\/p>\n
Bienne Terita celebrated her return to the side with a double as they set the tempo early and often.<\/p>\n
Teagan Levi joined her with a double, scoring late in the contest as she touched down despite an awkward collision with the goal post.<\/p>\n
Friday, 17 April<\/p>\n
Australia Women\u2019s Sevens team for 2026 HSBC SVNS World Championships Hong Kong:<\/p>\n
2. Amahli Hala \u2013 7 events<\/p>\n
3. Faith Nathan \u2013 38 events<\/p>\n
5. Teagan Levi \u2013 30 events<\/p>\n
6. Madison Ashby (c) \u2013 31 events<\/p>\n
8. Kaitlin Shave \u2013 12 events<\/p>\n
9. Tia Hinds \u2013 27 events<\/p>\n
10. Isabella Nasser (c) \u2013 23 events<\/p>\n
12. Maddison Levi \u2013 32 events<\/p>\n
13. Heidi Dennis \u2013 12 events<\/p>\n
15. Kahli Henwood \u2013 11 events<\/p>\n
22. Bienne Terita \u2013 20 events<\/p>\n
55. Alysia Lefau-Fakaosilea \u2013 16 events<\/p>\n
65. Sariah Paki \u2013 41 events<\/p>\n
Australia Men’s Sevens team for 2026 HSBC SVNS World Championships Hong Kong:<\/p>\n
1. Henry Hutchison (c) \u2013 65 events<\/p>\n
2. Ben Dowling \u2013 26 events<\/p>\n
3. James McGregor \u2013 8 events<\/p>\n
4. Dietrich Roache \u2013 33 events<\/p>\n
7. Josh Turner \u2013 43 events<\/p>\n
10. Ben Dalton \u2013 15 events<\/p>\n
11. Maurice Longbottom \u2013 51 events<\/p>\n
14. James Turner \u2013 24 events<\/p>\n
23. Aden Ekanayake \u2013 13 events<\/p>\n
24. Ethan McFarland – 6 events<\/p>\n
33. Harry Wilson \u2013 6 events<\/p>\n
49. Archie Saunders \u2013 2 events<\/p>\n
77. Wallace Charlie \u2013 7 events<\/p>\n
HSBC SVNS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS HONG KONG SCHEDULE<\/p>\n
AUSTRALIA MEN<\/p>\n
Friday 17 April: Australia 14 def Kenya 5 (7:56pm AEST)<\/p>\n
Friday 17 April: Australia 38 def USA 5 (11:10pm AEST)<\/p>\n
Saturday 18 April: Australia v New Zealand (3:47pm AEST)<\/p>\n
AUSTRALIA WOMEN<\/p>\n
Friday 17 April: Australia 33 def South Africa 0 (2:25pm AEST)<\/p>\n
Friday 17 April: Australia 34 def Great Britain 7 (5:35pm AEST)<\/p>\n
Saturday 18 April: Australia v Canada (1:27pm AEST)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIVE: The Australian Sevens teams are looking to celebrate 50 years of the Hong Kong Sevens with victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,125979,40283,44,178643],"class_list":["post-613095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-mens-sevens","tag-australian-womens-sevens","tag-news","tag-sevens-world-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613095","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=613095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}