Defending champions New Zealand are on course for a third consecutive HSBC SVNS Singapore title after booking their semi-final spot in sensational fashion on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Black Ferns Sevens won all three games \u2013 against Great Britain, Canada and France \u2013 to top Pool B and set up a mouthwatering showdown with USA on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The other semi-final will see Australia, who also won their three games, face Canada as another thrilling day of action at the Singapore National Stadium reaches a crescendo.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New Zealand scored a total of 138 points in their three games to suggest it could take a special team to stop them going all the way tomorrow.<\/p>\n
POOL A: Australia and USA flash a title warning after booking semi-final spots<\/p>\n
USA conjured a stunning second-half comeback to overturn Japan\u2019s 19-0 interval lead and win 22-19 in their Pool A opener.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Japan appeared to be in control after tries from Hazuki Ouchida (two) and captain Hanako Utsumi.<\/p>\n
But the USA Eagles hit back with doubles from Kaylen Thomas and Su Adegoke to secure their first-ever pool win in Singapore.<\/p>\n
It was a sister act for Australia \u2013 champions in Cape Town and runner-up in Dubai \u2013 who showed their experience to beat Fiji 35-7 in a statement win.<\/p>\n
The formidable Maddison Levi scored a superb individual opener to register her 222nd try in sevens rugby before her younger sibling Teagan added Australia\u2019s second.<\/p>\n
Captain Madison Ashby claimed a third try before Fiji replied through Reapi Ulunisau but further Australia scores from Kaitlin Shave and Faith Nathan.<\/p>\n
USA beat Fiji 17-12 with Ariana Ramsey (two) and Sariah Ibarra touching down and Silika Qalo and Adi vani Buleki scoring for Fiji.<\/p>\n
Australia showed their class with another win as they beat Japan 26-19 courtesy of tries from Maya Stewart\u2019s double and scores from Maddison Levi and Heidi Dennis.<\/p>\n
Japan, who were 19-0 down at the break, registered tries from Mei Ohtani, Haruna Konishi and Yume Hirano.<\/p>\n
Fiji 7s beat Japan 34-12 with tries from Alfreda Fisher, Verenaisi Ditavutu (two), Sesenieli Donu, Sera Bolatini and Mariana Talatoka with Ria Anoku and Mei Ohtani crossing for Japan.<\/p>\n
In the final game, Australia beat the USA 26-19 to top Pool A.<\/p>\n
Maddison Levi took centre stage again with a hat-trick while a Kaylen Thomas brace and a penalty saw the scores level before Maya Stewart\u2019s late try secured a 26-19 win.<\/p>\n
POOL B: Canada open with thriller as New Zealand flex their muscles\u00a0<\/p>\n
Canada captain Carissa Norsten scored a dramatic extra-time try to secure a 29-24 victory over France to kick off the day\u2019s action in fine style.<\/p>\n
Canada were quickest out of the blocks as they raced into a 17-0 lead with scores from Alysha Corrigan, Kennedi Stevenson and Norsten.<\/p>\n
But a pacey France side \u2013 with an average age of just 20 \u2013 responded through Kelly Arbey before the break.<\/p>\n
Stevenson scored her second for Canada but tries from Lili Dezou, Arbey and Lou Noel levelled matters at 24-24 before Norsten\u2019s extra-time clincher.<\/p>\n
The match also saw Breanne Nicholas equal the great Bianca Farella\u2019s all-time record of 45 Sevens caps for Canada.<\/p>\n
New Zealand then underlined their pedigree by scoring 10 tries in a commanding 64-0 victory over Great Britain.<\/p>\n
The prolific Jorja Miller raced clear from distance and Katelyn Vahaakolo, the mercurial Braxton Sorensen-McGee, Mahina Paul and Risi Pouri-Lane all touched down before the break.<\/p>\n
After the interval, Vahaakolo, Paul, Olive Watherstone, Kelsey Teneti and Sorensen-McGee underlined the Black Ferns Sevens\u2019 superiority.<\/p>\n
It was a poignant occasion for their players who wore black armbands as a mark of respect to honour those who died in the recent landslides at Mount Maunganui.<\/p>\n
This tragedy is close to home with the womens and mens teams based on New Zealand\u2019s North Island.<\/p>\n
France earned their first win after an impressive 32-5 success over Great Britain.
Anaick Konyi, Lili Dezou, Mariama Tandiang (two), Kelly Arbey and Lou Noel scored for the French, while Great Britain\u2019s only score came from Katie Shillaker.<\/p>\n
New Zealand registered their 40th win over Canada with a 19-12 success with the impressive Jorja Miller scoring twice and Stacey Waaka also on target with Olivia Apps claiming a brace in reply.<\/p>\n
Canada won the second of their three games by comfortably beating Great Britain 52-0 with tries from Olivia Apps, Breanne Nicholas, Krissy Scurfield (two), Alysha Corrigan, Kennedi Stevenson and a brace from Sabrina Poulin.<\/p>\n
New Zealand beat France 55-7 with scores from Jorja Miller, Kelsey Teneti, Stacey Waaka (two), Mahina Paul, Katelyn Vahaakolo, Alena Saili (two) and Jaymie Kolose with Mariama Tandiang scoring for the French.<\/p>\n
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You can watch all the\u00a0HSBC SVNS<\/a> action on Finals Day in Singapore on Rugbypass TV<\/a>, or your local broadcaster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defending champions New Zealand are on course for a third consecutive HSBC SVNS Singapore title after booking their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105,4277],"class_list":{"0":"post-267134","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","11":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267134","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=267134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}