Canada Women Perfect on Dubai Day One

Canada have emerged one of the early favorites in the race to the Dubai 7s crown as they came through the pool stages undefeated on Day One of the tournament at The Sevens Stadium on Thursday. A late try from skipper Ghislaine Landry was needed to get by the ever-improving Brazil on their first match by a score of only 26-19. Spain would prove a relatively easy match and perhaps most impressively England fell behind 24-5 before a late consolation score made the final gap a more respectable 24-12.

Brazil seemed to have spent much of their energy chasing the Canada upset as they were beaten convincingly by both Spain and England. The USA meanwhile just squeaked past Russia in their opener as they overcame a 10-0 halftime deficit to come away 12-10 winners. Losses to South Africa and Olympic champions Australia rounded out their day.

The Australians looked in fine form as they had little trouble in their opening round, while New Zealand also emerged unscathed with only Fiji offering any significant resistance. The quarter finals begin on Friday at 9am local time, midnight Eastern, with all matches streamed live by World Rugby.

DAY ONE RESULTS

POOL A
USA 12 – 10 Russia
Australia 38 – 5 South Africa
USA 7 – 26 South Africa
Australia 20 – 7 Russia
Russia 19 – 14 South Africa
Australia 19 – 10 USA

POOL B
France 14 – 21 Fiji
New Zealand 27 – 5 Ireland
France 24 – 14 Ireland
New Zealand 19 – 10 Fiji
Fiji 17 – 17 Ireland
New Zealand 31 – 0 France

POOL C
England 31 – 7 Spain
Canada 26 – 19 Brazil
England 28 – 7 Brazil
Canada 27 – 7 Spain
Spain 21 – 5 Brazil
Canada 24 – 12 England

DAY TWO FIXTURES (December 2, all times ET)

CUP QUARTER FINALS
00:00 – New Zealand vs South Africa
00:22 – Canada vs Russia
00:44 – Fiji vs England
01:06 – Australia vs France

TROPHY SEMI FINALS
02:52 – Spain vs Brazil
03:14 – USA vs Ireland