Watch the 2025-2026 HSBC SVNS Series live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nAfter the Aussies survived a scare in their final pool match of the tournament against Canada, Levi crossed for a double in the quarter-final to now sit only second behind Michaela Brake with 258 World Series tries.<\/p>\n
Teagan Levi also got in on the fun with a double as the Fijians struggled with discipline, twice copping yellow cards.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the Aussies were forced to chase their final pool game after Canada’s Charity Williams scored twice for a 12-0 lead in the first half.<\/p>\n
But Faith Nathan and Teagan Levi, on either side of the break, levelled the scores, with Nathan getting her second with three minutes left for the lead.<\/p>\n
Canada wouldn’t die easily, crossing for a five-pointer with 90 seconds left, but they missed the kick and the Aussies held on.<\/p>\n
“The main thing we’re celebrating is the win,” Maddison Levi said.<\/p>\n
“It’s awesome to get through to the semi-finals and these individual achievements, but to get through with the girls and hopefully gold in Hong Kong is the goal for the weekend.”<\/p>\n
In the men’s draw, Australia went down 19-5 to Spain in their quarter-final and will fight for position in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
The results set up a fifth-placed playoff with Fiji on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, Australia once again nabbed trans-Tasman bragging rights, with a Dietrich Roache double giving them a 12-7 win over New Zealand.<\/p>\n
Roache broke the game open in the second half, first kicking for himself before finishing off in the corner after Henry Hutchison’s long break.<\/p>\n
Their defence was relentless again, stopping the Kiwis late charge to top their pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maddison Levi went past Portia Woodman-Wickliffe into second spot on the all-time try-scoring list as Australia’s women powered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616241,"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-616240","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\/616240","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=616240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}