{"id":273458,"date":"2026-02-08T07:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/273458\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T07:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:29:06","slug":"fiji-to-face-south-africa-in-perth-7s-final-at-9-04-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/273458\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji to face South Africa in Perth 7s final at 9.04 tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fiji Airways Men\u2019s National 7s side will face South Africa in the final of the HSBC SVNS Perth 7s at 9.04 tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The Fijians demolished New Zealand 35-0 in the first semi-final, while South Africa defeated Australia 28-12 in the second semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>Vuiviawa Naduvalo continued his impressive form, scoring a hat-trick to help Fiji book a spot in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Fiji took control early, dominating the first half and leaving New Zealand scoreless at 14-0 by the break.<\/p>\n<p>They continued their dominance in the second half, unleashing relentless pressure through high-intensity attack and solid defence.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand struggled to contain the pace and physicality as Fiji stormed through to book their place in the Cup Final.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Fijiana 7s will take on Great Britain in the 7th-place playoff at 5.51pm today.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand will face Australia in the women\u2019s final at 8.38pm tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fiji Airways Men\u2019s National 7s side will face South Africa in the final of the HSBC SVNS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[154318,111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-273458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-feature-perth-7s","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273458","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=273458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}