Watch every match of this week’s Perth SVNS live and on-demand, exclusively on Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI thought New Zealand had a cracker game,\u201d coach Tim Walsh said, paying credit to New Zealand as they claimed their first tournament win in Western Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re one step ahead of us at the moment, so they’re putting out something last week,\u00a0and then adjusting all the things, and we’re playing a little bit of catch-up,\u00a0so hopefully by the finals, they might have run out of cards to play,\u00a0and we’ll have to do our best later.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Australians were well in the contest when Heidi Dennis burned her defender and scored the opener.<\/p>\n
This was instantly answered by Jorja Miller, breaking several tackles and offloading for Stacey Wakka to level the scores.<\/p>\n
Player of the Match Kelsey Teneti only furthered their advantage right before the break, giving them a 12-7 half-time lead.<\/p>\n
A controversial call that ruled Maddison Levi out inside the Kiwi 22 despite footage suggesting otherwise was punished further when Teneti raced clear for her second.<\/p>\n
Black Ferns star Katelyn Vahaakolo delivered the dagger in the last two minutes, latching onto a flat ball to score under the posts.<\/p>\n
Alena Saili finished the dominant second half off as co-captain Bella Nasser lamented the lost moments.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe probably threw the first moment at them and Heidi scored that unbelievable try but it’s just a matter of being able to stay in it,\u201d Nasser said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey’re a real quality side and it’s something we’ll go back home and work on real hard to go back again in Vancouver and New York.\u201d<\/p>\n
It’s New Zealand’s third title of the 2025-26 Series, having claimed victory last week in Singapore.<\/p>\n
New Zealand 29 def Australia 7 (Tries: Dennis, Cons: Hinds 1\/1)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australia Women\u2019s Sevens team were left gutted after a 29-7 defeat to New Zealand in the Final.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[106211,111,43,139,69,106210],"class_list":["post-273842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-australian-womens-sevens","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sevens-world-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273842","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=273842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}