The stage is set for two wonderful semi-finals of the HSBC SVNS Singapore tomorrow after Fiji, New Zealand, France and South Africa booked their places in thrilling fashion on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The All Blacks Sevens clinched their first HSBC SVNS title since Singapore back in 2024 when emerging triumphant in Dubai two months ago.<\/p>\n
Now they have the chance to go all the way again on Sunday after progressing to a semi-final showdown with Fiji, who dramatically topped Pool A after an extra-time win over the Blitzboks.<\/p>\n
The other semi-final will see South Africa take on France in what promises to be another occasion to savour at the Singapore National Stadium tomorrow.<\/p>\n
POOL A: Fiji and Blitzboks show their class to reach last four<\/p>\n
Fiji will be overflowing with self-belief when they take on New Zealand in Sunday\u2019s semi-final.<\/p>\n
Three Pool A wins against Great Britain, Spain and South Africa have seen to that and encouraged hopes the Fijians could repeat last year\u2019s title win in Singapore.<\/p>\n
In the final game of Saturday, they thrillingly beat the Blitzboks 24-19 in extra-time to top Pool A and lay down an emphatic marker.<\/p>\n
Fiji, noted for their dazzling attacking skills, opened with a 22-19 win over Great Britain with the prolific Viwa Naduvalo claiming a superb hat-trick.<\/p>\n
Nacani Boginisoko added Fiji\u2019s fourth while Charlton Kerr, Brent Jackson and Joshua Radcliffe scored for Great Britain.<\/p>\n
South Africa beat Spain 21-14 in their opener with tries from Donavan Don, Zander Reynders and Shilton van Wyk with Anton Legorburu Anso and Francisco Cosculluela scoring in reply.<\/p>\n
Fiji claimed their second win of the day with a resounding 28-7 victory over Spain courtesy of tries from Iowane Teba, George Bose, Terio Veilawa and Nacani Boginisoko.<\/p>\n
Josep Serres claimed the Spaniards\u2019 only try as they were outscored by four tries to one.<\/p>\n
South Africa then enjoyed a huge win after beating Great Britain 33-12.<\/p>\n
A sublime display harvested tries for Donavan Don, Tristan Leyds, Shilton van Wyk, Ryan Oosthuizen and Sebastiaan Jobb while Joshua Radcliffe and Matt Davidson went over for Great Britain.<\/p>\n
Spain beat Great Britain 29-14 to secure their only win with tries from Jaime Manteca, Juan Ramos, Jeremy Trevithick (two) and Gabriel Rocaries.<\/p>\n
Marcus Kershaw and Brent Jackson replied for Great Britain, who lost all three games.<\/p>\n
The real drama was still to come, though, as Fiji edged out South Africa in the final game of the day.<\/p>\n
Tristan Leyds, Donavan Don and Christie Grobbelaar touched down for the Blitzboks but Fiji were not to be denied.<\/p>\n
Terio Veilawa scored twice and Jeremaia Matana was also on target before Nacani Boginisoko burst clear to score a superb winner in extra-time.<\/p>\n
POOL B: France top group and New Zealand also progress<\/p>\n
France did not win a game in Singapore last year but earned a notable 19-12 victory over New Zealand in their opening game on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Simon Desert, Antoine Zeghdar and Nelson Epee touched down with Akuila Rokolisoa and Regan Ware replying for New Zealand.<\/p>\n
The All Black Sevens players 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 their womens and mens teams based on New Zealand\u2019s North Island.<\/p>\n
Led out by captain Henry Hutchison \u2013 the most capped Australian in Sevens history with 62 tournaments \u2013 Australia beat a gutsy Argentina 19-14 in their opener.<\/p>\n
They established control through Aden Ekanayake, Jayden Blake and Dietrich Roache before Los Pumas 7s hit back through Marcos Moneta and Santiago Mare to ensure a tense finish.<\/p>\n
France showed their class again with a comprehensive 31-7 win over Australia.<\/p>\n
Simon Desert, Jordan Sepho (two), Nelson Epee and Paul Leraitre touched down for the French, with the Australians\u2019 sole reply coming from Aden Ekanayake.<\/p>\n
There was a much closer-fought affair when New Zealand edged out Argentina 26-20 with tries from Tone Ng Shiu, Frank Vaenuku, Kitiona Vai and 19-year-old Kele Lasaqa\u2019s dramatic late winner.<\/p>\n
Santino Zangara, Santiago Vera Feld, Marcos Moneta and Eliseo Morales were on target for Los Pumas 7s.<\/p>\n
New Zealand then beat Australia 29-10 with tries from Akuila Rokolisoa, Sofai Notoa-Tipo, Rob Rush (two), Michael Manson with Aden Ekanayake and Jayden Blake scoring for the Australians.<\/p>\n
Tries from Paulin Riva, Simon Desert and Ali Dabo gave France a 19-15 win over Argentina, for whom Santino Zangara scored a delightful hat-trick.<\/p>\n
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":"The stage is set for two wonderful semi-finals of the HSBC SVNS Singapore tomorrow after Fiji, New Zealand,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,7364,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-262362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262362","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=262362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}