Canadian women's rugby 7s team advance to Cup semifinals in Singapore

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 05, 2025 12:58 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Fancy Bermudez scored 2 tries Saturday to assistance Canada decision the U.S. 31-21 and determination into the Cup semifinals astatine the HSBC SVNS Singapore.

The Canadian women, who came into the tourney successful 4th spot successful the HSBC SVNS play standings, opened play with a 14-5 triumph implicit Britain.

Breanne Nicholas, Sabrina Poulin and Carissa Norsten besides scored tries against the fifth-ranked Americans portion Nicholas booted 3 conversions. Carissa Norsten and Olivia Apps scored first-half tries and Nicholas added some conversions successful Canada's triumph implicit No. 8 Britain.

Canada volition look No. 2 Australia successful 1 semifinal Sunday portion No. 1 New Zealand faces No. 3 France successful the other.

Singapore, the sixth and penultimate lawsuit of the play connected the top-tier rugby sevens tour, decides the 2025 HSBC SVNS League winners (think regular season), with the apical 8 men's and women's teams moving connected to the winner-take-all HSBC SVNS World Championship successful Cason, Calif., connected May 3-4.

The New Zealand women and Argentina men were confirmed arsenic 2025 League winners connected Day 1 astatine Singapore National Stadium.

The Black Ferns secured the top-four decorativeness they required, acknowledgment to ascendant victories implicit China (38-0) and Brazil (48-0) to apical Pool A. Argentina, meanwhile, bounced backmost from a 26-24 nonaccomplishment to South Africa by beating Britain 19-12 to determination into the semifinals and clinch the SVNS men's league title.

Britain and Fiji secured their places successful the World Championship successful California astatine the disbursal of Brazil.

The men's teams moving connected are Argentina, Fiji, Spain, South Africa, France, New Zealand, Australia and Britain. The confirmed women's teams are Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Britain, France, Fiji, the U.S. and Japan.

The Canadians are coming disconnected a season-best third-place decorativeness successful Hong Kong. Canada finished eighth successful Dubai, 5th successful Cape Town, 4th successful Perth and seventh successful Vancouver.

The California finale volition besides diagnostic a promotion/relegation playoff involving the apical 4 men's and women's teams from the second-tier HSBC Sevens Challenger and the bottommost 4 teams connected the HSBC SVNS circuit.

The Canadian men, relegated past June, are acceptable to instrumentality portion successful the last Challenger Series lawsuit April 11-12 successful Krakow, Poland. They presently apical the Challenger Series.