Australia's Women's World Series victory at Dubai Sevens ends New Zealand's winning run

03.12.2023 - 19:51 thenationalnews.com

The Levi sisters combined to end New Zealand’s record-breaking winning streak in sevens as Australia retained the HSBC Svns title in Dubai.

In the penultimate match of the Emirates Dubai Sevens weekend, Australia beat the Black Ferns 26-19 on Pitch 1. It means the Australians have now won the women’s tournament each of the four times it has been staged since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Despite their dominance in the UAE, it is New Zealand who had been the eminent force in women’s sevens over the past year. The had claimed an unprecedented sequence of wins on their way to taking six tournament titles since Dubai last year.

They won in Cape Town, Hamilton, Sydney, Vancouver, Hong Kong and Toulouse as they obliterated the field in last season’s world series.

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