On the sidelines of the second HSBC SVNS stop of the season in Cape Town, the draw for the third round in Singapore, has thrown up some exciting encounters \u2014 and the prospect of more than one upset.<\/p>\n
As South Africa celebrated back-to-back Blitzbok titles in Cape Town, the draw for the next round of the HSBC SVNS, in Singapore on 31 January and 1 February 2026, took place on the party\u2019s sidelines.<\/p>\n
READ ALSO How the revamped global sevens rugby season format works<\/a><\/p>\n Newly crowned men\u2019s champions South Africa will face Fiji, a rapidly improving Great Britain and unlucky Spain \u2013 who missed out on the semi-finals in South Africa on points difference \u2014 in Pool A when the tournament gets under way at the National Stadium in the new year.<\/p>\n Losing finalists Argentina, meanwhile, head a tough-looking Pool B that includes France, New Zealand and Australia.<\/p>\n In the women\u2019s competition, Cape Town champions Australia have been pitted against USA, Japan and Fiji in a difficult Pool A when the HSBC SVNS resumes at the end of January, while arch-rivals New Zealand will face France, Canada and Great Britain in Pool B.\u00a0<\/p>\n You can watch all the\u00a0HSBC SVNS<\/a> action in Singapore on Rugbypass TV<\/a>, or your local broadcaster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the sidelines of the second HSBC SVNS stop of the season in Cape Town, the draw for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213,7364],"class_list":{"0":"post-173975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}